Eubie Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans Noble Lee Sissle was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical "Shuffle Along" (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry. Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake seated at a piano in a publicity still for an early Vitaphone movie short. Typescript on back of photo: Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake as they appeared in an early vitaphone movie short about 1930. From the H.T. Sampson Collection.
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African American composers African American musicians African American singers Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975 Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
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