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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 Wild About Harry" was the most popular number of the production, which was the first financially successful Broadway play to have African-American writers and an all African-American cast. [4]
Shuffle Along becomes a long-running success, with popular songs like "I'm Just Wild About Harry". [6] [8] The partners do not have the same success during the following years and argue about royalties. Lyles announces that he is moving to Africa, and the creators go their separate ways. The romance between Blake and Gee ends.
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. [1] [2] [3] One of the most notable all-Black hit Broadway shows, it was a landmark in African-American musical theater, credited with inspiring the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s.
Noble Sissle photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1951. Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) [1] was an 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
No, the tabloid headlines about all the behind-the-scenes mishesgoss on Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling isn’t hurting ticket sales. The Imax Live Experience advance screening for the ...
Ma Baby" and "I'm Just Wild About Harry", two Tin Pan Alley classics, to "Largo al Factotum", Figaro's aria from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). The short was released on December 31, 1955, as part of Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.
Harry Styles dropped a music video for his "Harry's House" hit "Satellite" on May 3. Here's what the lyrics behind the bop might mean.
The film, as well as the musical, included the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry", which was written in 1921 for the Broadway show Shuffle Along, with lyrics by Noble Sissle and music by Eubie Blake. [8] Musical numbers were recorded in stereophonic sound, but released to theaters with conventional monaural sound. Recent home-video releases ...