Get It Fixed
CD Document DOCD-5403
The tune was recorded on this day a hundred years ago, on March 20, 2025. Rosa Henderson was born as Rosa Deschamps in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1896 and started her career about 1913. She married an associate in vaudeville named Douglas “Slim” Henderson and soon got to work in a number of revues in New York theaters.
As a recording artist, she made about 100 sides released by different companies, also using pseudonyms, and several of them have very good accompaniment.
On this we have Louis Hooper and Elmer Snowden on piano and banjo and some incisive cornet playing by the young Rex Stewart. It was around this time that he was contacted by Louis Armstrong and asked to take over his role as a soloist in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, which he somewhat reluctantly did, but it was impossible to fill those shoes, and furthermore he was soon mobbed out of the early version of this famous band. He would be back one day.
Get It Fixed, with a short verse and a 16-bar chorus, was also recorded by singers Monette Moore and Eva Taylor, among others.