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Next were Brooks and Powers, colored, pianist and comedian (Shelton Brooks), with Mr. Powers as the singer. There is probably no vaudeville talking act that has two stronger laughs at the opening of the turn than Mr. Brooks puts over. It’s the former double act, with new songs by Brooks, and although the couple he sings or pianologs through may not be his best, there is a certain laugh in one of them. But those two gags at the start would send in right any one (–) could utter them properly. It needed someone like Brooks.
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Variety, LXI:8, January 14, 1921.