Jay C. Flippen was a White vaudeville performer of the 1920s. He sometimes performed minstrel material in blackface makeup. His records have a lot in common with those of Pathé label mates, Cliff Edwards and Annette Hanshaw. Similar back-up groups were used on all of these performers' records. The personnel of these bands featured members of Red Nichols Five Pennies and the California Ramblers. Flippen often inserted the phrase of "turn it over" at the end of a record much like Annette Hanshaw's gimmick of saying "that's all" at the end of her songs. Flippen went on to have a very successful career on Broadway, in the movies and on television and radio. He appeared in over sixty movies before his death in 1971.

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