Johnny Hudgins

Johnny Hudgins. Actor: Sur un air de Charleston. Hudgins was an African American vaudeville performer and a part of the Harlem Renaissance. He began his career in show business in Baltimore dancing in small clubs. For nine years thereafter he sang and danced on the burlesque circuit. He developed blackface pantomime routines that relied on the assistance of a jazz trumpet soloist. In these routines the trumpeter played vocal-sounding "wah-wah"...