Frankie Jaxon

Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson (March 3, 1896 or 1897 – May 15, 1953),[1][2] was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s.[3]

  1. ^ Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 517. ISBN 978-0313344237.
  2. ^ Legal name and birth/death dates from headstone application as a military veteran, reproduced in Brian Berger, Frankie Jaxon, Hilobrow, 2013-02-03. Accessed 2013-02-10. Other sources state that he was born in 1895 and that he died in 1944; Allmusic gives a date of 1970.
  3. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Blues (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 199. ISBN 0-85112-673-1.