After Detroit and Cleveland we played all of the Eastern cities except New York. When I went into Charlie Turpin's house in St. Louis, Butterbeans and Susie, my old friends, were also on the bill. Stringbeans had died, and now Butterbeans and Susie were the top standard act on the colored time. I had a new record out, "That Da Da Strain." It was a big hit, and people liked me to sing it. But Susie of Butterbeans and Susie had been doing a terrific patter with the same song, and it had stopped shows for them everywhere.