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    Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway...
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    jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals written and directed...
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  • Baltimore's most famous musical export was the duo of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, who found national fame in New York. Blake in particular became a ragtime...
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    two soldiers from the 15th Regiment, Lieutenant James Reese Europe and Noble Sissle, were refused by the owner of a hotel shop when they attempted to buy...
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    portrayed Jake in the 2011 Broadway production of Porgy and Bess and Noble Sissle in the original Broadway cast of Shuffle Along . Henry was born in Winnipeg...
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    Shuffle Along is a musical composed by Eubie Blake, with lyrics by Noble Sissle and a book written by the comedy duo Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles....
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    Of No Man's Land Is Ours", written by Europe and Noble Sissle; recorded in 1919 with vocals by Sissle. Problems playing this file? See media help. After...
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  • Moms Mabley Pigmeat Markham Florence Mills Jelly Roll Morton Ma Rainey Noble Sissle Bessie Smith Victoria Spivey William Grant Still Fats Waller Ethel Waters...
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    "I'm Just Wild About Harry" is a song written in 1921 with lyrics by Noble Sissle and music by Eubie Blake for the Broadway show Shuffle Along. "I'm Just...
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  • Pinkard "Mandy" w.m. Irving Berlin "Mirandy" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake "The Moon Shines On The Moonshine" w. Frank De Witt m....
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  • 1921 and All That Followed is a musical with a score by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle and a libretto by George C. Wolfe, based on the original book of the...
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  • Brothers (in their film debut, albeit uncredited), Eubie Blake, and Noble Sissle. McKinney and the Nicholas Brothere were reunited in another Roy Mack...
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  • featuring the jazz and ragtime music of composer Eubie Blake, with lyrics by Noble Sissle, Andy Razaf, Johnny Brandon, F. E. Miller, and Jim Europe. The revue...
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  • American Episcopal bishop Noble Sissle (1889–1975), American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright Noble Threewitt (1911–2010), American...
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    Reese Europe and the 369th US Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band, featuring Noble Sissle, the Complete Pathe Recordings – 1919, IAJRC CD 1012, 1996. "Jazz Baby"...
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  • Noble Sissle and was directed by Roy Mack. The Vitaphone film was distributed by Warner Brothers. The film survives. That's the Spirit includes Noble...
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    and sympathetic touch to black musical traditions." Black songwriter Noble Sissle, in the 1930s, said "[h]e was always the champion of the Negro songwriter...
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  • Sylva m. Louis Silvers "Baltimore Buzz" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake "Bandana Days" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake "Bimini Bay" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond...
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  • first production, in New York, of Shuffle Along, by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, who wrote the songs "Daddy, Won’t You Please Come Home" and "I’m Craving...
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    Washington co-founded the Negro Actors Guild of America (NAG), with Noble Sissle, W. C. Handy, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. The organization's mission...
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  • Blake and marks a reunion for Blake with his longtime collaborator, Noble Sissle. The album was recorded in three sessions, the first on December 26,...
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    Ethel Waters. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was named honorary president. Noble Sissle was the first elected president, 1937–1957; followed by Leigh Whipper...
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  • of Harry S. Truman, taken from a 1921 popular song title written by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake "Pour it on 'em, Harry!" – 1948 U.S. presidential campaign...
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    setting as Southern. For example, African Americans Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle quoted "Dixie" in the song "Bandana Days" for their 1921 musical Shuffle...
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  • Yerkes) "Harlem's Manhattan" by Ornette Coleman "Harlem's Poppin'" by Noble Sissle* "Harlemania" by Duke Ellington "Harmony in Harlem" by Charlie Barnet*...
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  • of the same name. The Chocolate Dandies 1924 Broadway Eubie Blake Noble Sissle Sissle and Lew Payton The Chocolate Soldier 1908 German Oscar Straus Stanislaus...
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  • Harry S. Truman (Democratic) "I'm Just Wild About Harry" Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) We Love the Sunshine of Your Smile...
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    Regiment, "... started ragtimitis in France", according to band member Noble Sissle. It was very successful in 1925 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées where...
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  • Based on the life and work of Eubie Blake, who, along with collaborator, Noble Sissle, created “Shuffle Along,” one of the first Broadway musicals written...
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  • (Alternate Take 1) Buck Ram & Noble Sissle 3:03 2. "That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch" (Alternate Take 2) Buck Ram & Noble Sissle 3:10 3. "That's the Stuff...
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