[78-L] Shuffle Along - Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake

[Thomas Stern]

This historic and pioneering show is again on Broadway - lots of reviews and
profiles, newsclips etc. on youtube

Cheers, Thomas.

 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUjbZ0KO4SE

 

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vMDGFjbEMU

 

 
http://www.wsj.com/articles/shuffle-along-or-the-making-of-the-musical-sensa
tion-of-1921-and-all-that-followed-review-1461889800

 

  http://variety.com/2016/legit/reviews/shuffle-along-review-1201762907/

 

 
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/Review-Wolfe-Shuffle-Along
-377345271.html

 

 
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remixing-shuffle-along-a-musical-that-brought
-new-sounds-and-moves-to-broadway/

 

 

 

The LIBRETTO is available:

Shuffle Along: The 1921 Broadway Musical: Complete Libretto (Historical
Libretto Series )

Paperback: 58 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 25, 2015)

 

 

Also a just released CD from HARBINGER containing parts of a 1950 demo
recording for a proposed revival, plus recordings

of Eubie Blake and others from the LP's issued by EUBIE BLAKE MUSIC.

 

  http://harbingerrecords.com/sissle-and-blake/

 

 

TWO other important LP incarnations:

 

1976  NEW WORLD 260  SHUFFLE ALONG an archival re-creation of the 1921
production, featuring members of the original cast.

  unfortunately not transferred to CD - perhaps the Broadway revival will
stimulate that!

 

1. Bandana Days; I'm Just Wild About Harry - EUBIE BLAKE (1921-Victor 18791
B) 

2. In Honeysuckle Time - NOBLE SISSLE (1921-Emerson 10385 / Recorded as
"Leonard Graham and His Jazz Band) 

3. Love Will Find A Way - NOBLE SISSLE/EUBIE BLAKE (1921-Emerson 10396) 

4. Bandana Days - NOBLE SISSLE/EUBIE BLAKE (1921-Paramount 12002-B) 

5. Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home - GERTRUDE SAUNDERS /TIM BRYMM
(1921-Okeh 8004) 

6. Baltimore Buzz; In Honeysuckle Time - EUBIE BLAKE, solo piano
(1921-Emerson 10434) 

7. Gypsy Blues - PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA (1921-Victor 18839) 

SIDE TWO: 1. I'm Craving For That Kind Of Love - GERTRUDE SAUNDERS & TIM
BRYMM (1921-Okeh 8004) 

2. The Fight - Dialogue by FLOURNOY MILLER & AUBREY LYLES (1924-Okeh 40186) 

3. Gee, I'm Glad I'm From Dixie - NOBLE SISSLE (1920-Pathe 20470) 

4. Mirandy - NOBLE SISSLE and Lt. JIM EUROPE (1919-Pathe 22089) 

5. How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm - NOBLE SISSLE & Lt. JIM EUROPE
(1919-Pathe 22080) 

6. On Patrol In No Man's Land - NOBLE SISSLE & Lt. JIM EUROPE (1919-Pathe
22089) 

7. Baltimore Buzz - NOBLE SISSLE (1921-Emerson 10385)

 

 

RCA Victor EPA 482  SHUFFLE ALONG                  7" 45rpm EP 1953

RCA Victor LPM 3154                               10"-LP   1953

Sony/Amazon/?? 96188                                 CD-R 2011

Blackbirds of 1928

1. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (From ''Blackbirds Of 1928'') Cab
Calloway;Thelma Carpenter 2:18

2. Diga-Diga Doo (From ''Blackbirds Of 1928'') Cab Calloway;Thelma Carpenter
3:30

3. I Must Have That Man (From ''Blackbirds Of 1928'') Cab Calloway;Thelma
Carpenter 3:35

4. Doin' The New Low-Down (From ''Blackbirds Of 1928'') Cab Calloway;Thelma
Carpenter 3:05

SHUFFLE ALONG

5. Love Will Find A Way (From ''Shuffle Along'') Avon Long;Thelma Carpenter
3:26

6. I'm Just Wild About Harry (From ''Shuffle Along'') Avon Long;Thelma
Carpenter 2:10

7. Bandana Days (From ''Shuffle Along'') Avon Long;Thelma Carpenter 2:00

8. Gypsy Blues (From ''Shuffle Along'') Avon Long;Thelma Carpenter 3:17

   Digital Booklet: Blackbirds Of 1928 / Shuffle Along

 

 

other bits and pieces are included in:

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NEW WORLD CD   Black Manhattan V.2     - 2012 recording

The Eighty-six Years of Eubie Blake (Columbia C2S 847).

--This two-record album includes a Shuffle Along medley recorded by Sissle
and Blake in early 1969.

Sissle & Blake. (Eubie Blake Music EBM-4).

Reissues of early Sissle and Blake recordings.

Eubie Blake-Volume I: Blues and Rags (Biograph BLP-1011Q).

Eubie Blake-Volume II: 1921 (Biograph BLP-1021Q).

--These two records include twenty-two of Eubie Blake's thirty known piano
rolls.