Butterbeans and Susie were an American husband-and-wife comedy and music duo (Jodie “Butterbeans” Edwards and Susie Hawthorne Edwards) who became prominent on the Theatre Owners Booking Association circuit in the late 1910s. The pair met in 1916 and married onstage in 1917. After the death of Butler May (“Stringbeans”) in 1917, a TOBA promoter asked Edwards to adopt the stage name “Butterbeans” and, with Susie, take over the “Stringbeans and Sweetie May” act. Their stage routines mixed marital-quarrel comedy with song-and-dance numbers, and they recorded for Okeh between 1924 and 1930, including “A Married Man’s a Fool” (1924) and “He Likes It Slow” (1926) with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five.
