Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon Part 1......

"If this song's too hot, cool it if you can...Go out and buy yourself a five cent fan.....and fan it"

Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon....Part 1

Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon (February 3, 1895 - 1944 ?) was an African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, Illinois, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design.

In the late 1920s he sang with top jazz bands when they passed through Chicago, working with Bennie Moten, King Oliver and Freddie Keppard among others. He also performed and recorded with the pianists Cow Cow Davenport, Tampa Red and "Georgia Tom" Dorsey, recording with the latter pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and his Quarts Of Joy.

Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short called Black and Tan Fantasy (1929). Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper" (1927).

His recordings, such as "Fan It" (later recorded by Woody Herman), are mostly filled with bawdy comedy, double entendres and hokum. Blues fans reserve a special place in their hearts for his orgasmic parodies of "How Long How Long Blues" and "It's Tight Like That", louché collaborations with Tampa Red, Georgia Tom and assorted jugbandsmen.

In 1941 he retired from show business and worked at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He was transferred to Los Angeles, California in 1944 where, according to most sources, he died in the veterans hospital, although according to Allmusic he lived in Los Angeles until 1970.

Allrighty then! Let's get to part 1!!

Be your natural self-4-17-1940
Callin' Corrine-5-19-1939

Can't you wait till you get home?-piano=Blanche Smith Walton-7-12-1927

Can't you wait?-2-13-1929

Corrine blues-7-22-1929

Corrine-8-3-1927

Don't drink it in here-Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band 3-21-1929

Don't pan me (please don't talk about me when I'm gone)-5-19-1939

Down at Jasper's Bar-B-Que-10-28-1928

Fan it (take A)-11-28-1928

Fan it (take B)-11-28-1928

Fan it Boogie woogie-5-19-1939

Fifteen Cents-Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon and his hot shots-7-29-1933

Get the L on down the road-Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band 3-21-1929

Gimme a pig's foot and a bottle of beer-4-17-1940

Hannah fell in love with my piano-As Frankie JACKSON w/Lloyd Barnes, piano 5-14-1926

Head rag hop-Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon/Romeo Nelson/Tampa Red 1928?

Hit ta ditty low down-10-28-1928

How can I get it-10-28-1928

I knocks myself out-w/ The Harlem Hamfats 4-22-1938

I'm gonna dance wit de guy wot brung me-8-1-1927 (sorry, VERY bad quality)

I'm gonna steal you 2-piano=Blanche Smith Walton-7-12-1927
I'm gonna steal you 1-4-22-1938

If that don't get it, this sho' will-As Frankie JACKSON w/Lloyd Barnes, piano 5-14-1926

It's heated-6-11-1929

The dirty dozens-3-12-1937

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