Baby Cox the Original Scat Singer

Gertrude Cox born 1907 into the vaudeville family of Jimmy Cox and his wife, Anna Mae Cox. Gertrude was billed as Baby Cox and was a very popular part of her parent’s act. Cox scat singed in song and danced. A newspaper reported that the Cox Trio was getting six encores every night. Baby Cox on the bill in 1910. The next decade of reviews consistently cheer Baby Cox’s act in the Theater Owners Booking Association touring very popular and no longer a child in 1923, she had married and had a baby. The family tried to work Gerturde’s child into the act as “Baby I Love Cox,“ but it seems that he didn’t have what it takes to be on the stage. Her talents as a singer, dancer, and comedienne brought her the opportunity to join a touring gig with a hugely successful Butterbeans and Susie show in 1927. And within a couple of years she was offered a role in another famous show, Fats Waller’s “Hot Chocolates“ on Broadway. In the summer of 1928 she was listed with mult