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Frank Rice, together with Ernest Stokes, was section of a duo called Mustard & Gravy, who specialized in blues, hillbilly, and folk-style music, and minstrel-show entertainment. They documented Rice’s “End up being Bop Boogie” in 1950 for the Gotham label–it afterwards became a primo rockabilly piece in the hands of …

Frank Grain and Ernest L. Stokes met up as “Mustard & Gravy” in 1933 in NEW YORK, and spent another 20 years engaging nation audiences, writing several folk-style classics and something rockabilly-style number along the way. They both hailed from Wilson, NC, and had been related by relationship to a …