Frank Rice

by Bruce EderFrank Rice, in partnership with Ernest Stokes, was part of a duo called Mustard & Gravy, who specialized in blues, hillbilly, and folk-style music, and minstrel-show entertainment. They recorded Rices Be Bop Boogie in 1950 for the Gotham label—it later became a primo rockabilly piece in the hands of Don Hager and the Hot Tots, cutting for the Oak label. Their one extant piece of music as of the late 1990s is a recording of Rices Circus Parade, which appeared on the Library of Congresss Folk Music in America series, Vol. 13 (Songs of Childhood) in 1978.