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Eubie Blake

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ComposerActor 1887–1983 On stage 1921

James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. Blake began his career in 1912, and during World War I he worked in partnership with the singer, drummer, and comedian Broadway Jones. After the war he began a collaboration with Noble Sissle with whom he wrote Shuffle Along (1921), one of the first Broadway musicals written and directed by African Americans. When his collaboration with Sissle ended in 1927, he resumed a partnership with Jones which lasted until either 1932 or 1933. He reunited with Sissle briefly for Shuffle Along of 1933, and later the pair worked together in the United Service Organiz…

On stage 1 production

1921 Shuffle Along 63rd St. Music Hall · Original · directed by Walter Brooks 504 perf.

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Also credited on2 works

Shuffle Along (2016 Revival)
Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles, Noble Sissle, Gertrude Saunders, Roger Matthews, Lottie Gee, Lawrence Deas, Eubie Blakeebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Songs: “Parisian Pierrot” (Noël Coward); “You Were Meant for Me” (Eubie Blake-Noble Sissle); “Limehouse Blues” (Philip Braham-Douglas Furber); “March With Me!” (Ivor Novello-Furber); “There’s Life in the Old Girl Yet” (Coward)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • “Broadway is what excitement builds to, if you write songs.”—composer EUBIE BLAKEebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • My father worked in the Hotel Casey, which is a big hotel [in Scranton]. This black troupe came through called “The Chocolate Dandies,” Eubie Blake’s show … There was no place for blacks to stay; they weren’t allowed in the hotel. So they asked the waiters could they put up somebody, and [my segregated neighborhood] put up all the people…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
  • The career of Flash Riley offers a transgenerational odyssey in black musical theater. Starting with a childhood experience of watching Eubie Blake’s The Chocolate Dandies , then launching his career in Swing It, Native Son , and Carmen Jones , Riley succeeded within the world of black entertainment, right up throughebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
  • and music: Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. All-Negro revue employing spectacular dancing and choral singing within the framework of a plot concerning a mayoralty race in Jim Town. Musical numbers: "Bandana Days," "I'm Craving for That Kind of Love," "I'm Just Lyles; lyricstheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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