SHUFFLE ALONG
Composer: Eubie
Blake
Lyricist: Noble Sissle
Opened: May 23, 1921, 63rd Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 484
Ain’t Cha Coming Back, Mary Ann To Maryland (interpolated from vaudeville; also used in SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950):
1. 78/Pathe 22284 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake)
2. 78/Columbia A 6148 (Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra)
3. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
4. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
5. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
Baltimore Buzz:
1. 78/Victor 18791 (Eubie
Blake and His Shuffle Along Orchestra) [also found on
78/Gramophone 18789; 78/HMV B-1297; 78/RCA (F)PM 45687; reissued
on Kings Of Ragtime (Giants Of Jazz), CD/Gold Collection 4013]
2. 78/Emerson 10434 (Eubie Blake, piano) [also found on
78/Medallion 8327; reissued on Shuffle Along, New World (M)
NW-260]
3. 78/Emerson 10385 (Noble Sissle and His Sizzling Syncopators)
[also found on 78/Emerson 10574; reissued on American Musical
Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 1, CD/Smithsonian RD
036-I; Original Cast! The Early Years, CD/Metropolitan Opera MET
801CD]
4. 78/Regal 9101 (Leonard Graham and His Jazz Band (a pseudonym
for Nobel Sissle and His Sizzling Syncopators) [reissued on
Shuffle Along, New World (M) NW 260]
5. Carolina Shout, CD/Collectables 6924 (James P. Johnson)
6. Rose City Rag, CD/Duoart (Nathan Bello)
7. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
Note: Victor test recordings are known to exist by Eubie Blake,
piano, with alto and banjo and with Broadway Jones, vocal, and
Eubie Blake, piano)
Bandana Days (subsequently used in
SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950, PLANTATION DAYS, HARLEM CAVALCADE and
BLACK BROADWAY):
1. 78/Path 020655 (The
Seven Black Dots)
2. 78/Disc 6002 (The Carnival Three: Omer Simeon, George "Pops"
Foster, and James P. Johnson) [reissued on The Chronological
James P. Johnson 1944-1945, CD/Classics 1027]
3. 78/Paramount 12002 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, piano)
[reissued on Early Rare Recordings, Vol. 1, Eubie Blake Music 4;
also found on Shuffle Along, New World (M) NW-260]
4. 78/Okeh 4504 (James P. Johnson's Harmony Eight) [reissued on
Harlem Stride Piano 1921-1929, CD/EPM JA158952]
5. 78/Variety VA 552 (Noble Sissle and His Orchestra with Sidney
Bechet) [reissued on The Chronological Sidney Bechet 1937-1937,
CD/Classics 593]
6. 78/Victor 18791 (Eubie Blake and His Shuffle Along Orchestra)
[reissued on Sissle And Blake: Early Rare Recordings Volume 2,
Eubie Blake Music (M) EBM-7 ; also found on Shuffle Along, New
World (M) NW-260]
7. Songs From Shuffle Along, 45EP/Victor EPA 482 (Avon Long with
orchestra directed by Eubie Blake)
8. Song Hits Of 1921, Vocalion Records (S) VL73633 (Carmen
Cavallaro)
9. The Eighty Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle) (part of medley)
10. Orphelia Ragtime Orchestra Plays Classic Ragtime, CD/Odin
40382 (Orphelia Ragtime Orchestra)
11. Sidney Bechet The Alternative Takes, Vol. 1: 1925-1941, CD/
Neatwork 2001 (Sissle and His Orchestra with Sidney Bechet)
12. Josephine, CD/Merucy 512 659-2 (Cheryl
Howard and company with the Metrople Orchestra conducted by
Henk Meutgeert)
13. Black Manhattan, Volume 2, CD/New World Records 80731-2
(Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
14. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
15. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
16. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
17. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
Broadway
Blues (used in the Shuffle
Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921
and All That Followed):
1. Songs
From Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical
Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, CD/Tony Promo
(Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy
Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon, Joshua Henry, Adrienne
Warren, and Company with orchestra conducted by Shelton Becton)
Daddy (Won’t You Please Come Home):
1. 78/Okeh 8004 (Gertude
Saunders with Tim Brymn and His Black Devil Orchestra) [reissued
on Female Blues Singers, Vol. 13: R/S (1921-1931), CD/Document
DOCD 5517; reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along,
CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
2. Harlem Story, Koala (S) P7 (Jenifer Lewis and WDR Big
Band) [reissued as CD/Koala 007]
3. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (cast with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
Election Day In Jim Town (skit) (also
used in SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950):
1. 78/Okeh 4766 (Miller
and Lyles) [reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along,
CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
2. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
3. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
The Fight (Jim Town’s Fisticuffs)
(skit):
1. 78/Okeh 40186 (Miller
and Lyles) [reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along,
CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
Fourth Of July In Jim Town (skit):
1. 78/Okeh 4766 (Miller
and Lyles) [reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along,
CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
Gee, I’m Glad That I’m From Dixie:
1. 78/Pathe 20470 (Noble
Sissle) [reissued Shuffle Along, New World (M) NW-260]
Good Night Angeline (M: Eubie
Blake; James Reese Europa) (interpolated from vaudeville):
1. 78/Pathe 20226 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake)
2. 78/Black Swan 2016 (Four Harmony Kings)
3. 78/Columbia A 6148 (Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra)
4. Eubie Blake 1917-21, Biograph (S) BLP-1011-Q (Eubie Blake,
piano roll)
5. Eubie Blake Featuring Ivan Harold Browning, Eubie Blake Music
(S) EBM-1 (Ivan Harold Browning and Eubie Blake) [reissued on
Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
6. Wild About Eubie, Columbia (S) M-34504 (Joan Morris with
William Bolcom, piano)
7. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (cast with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
Gypsy Blues (subsequently used in
SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950, PLANTATION DAYS, PLANTATION REVUE,
and BLACK BROADWAY):
1. 78/Gennett 4794 A
(Ladd's Black Aces) [also 78/Starr 9177; reissued on The
Complete Ladd's Black Aces 1921-24, CD/Timeless 77]
2. 78/Symphony Concert 14250 (Farrell's Dance Orchestra)
3. 78/Emerson 10467 (Sam Lanin's Southern Serenaders) [reissued
on Shake It And Break It, CD/Frog 61]
4. 78/Hytone K 140 (Original Dixieland Jazz Band)
5. 78/Reference Recording D 624/5 (Everett Johnson) (unverified)
6. 78/Banner 1021 (Irving Weiss and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra)
[also 78/Puritan 11091; 78/Paramount 20091]
7. 78/Okeh 4461 (Julius Lenzbergs Harmonists)
8. 78/ Regal 9143 (Kentucky Serenaders)
9. 78/Edison 50866 (Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra)
10. 78/Victor 18839 (Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra)
11. 78/Black Swan 2025 (Henderson's Novelty Orchestra)
12. Songs From Shuffle Along, 45EP/Victor EPA 482 (Thelma
Carpenter and Avon Long with orchestra directed by Eubie Blake)
[reissued on Seems Like Old Times, CD/Sepia Records 1080]
13. The Eighty Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle) (part of medley)
14. Carolina Shout, CD/Collectables Records 6924 (James P.
Johnson, piano roll)
15. Blue Roses Of Far And Near, CD/Stomp Off 1361 (Dan Levinson)
16. Black Manhattan, Volume 2, CD/New World Records 80731-2
(Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
17. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
18. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
19. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
He May Be Your Man (But He Comes To See
Me Once In A While) (M/L: Lemuel Fowler) (added after
opening):
1. 78/Columbia A 3653
(Edith Wilson with Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds) [also
78/Columbia A 3787; 78/Columbia A 3653; reissued on Johnny Dunn
& Edith Wilson: Vol. 1 1921-1922, CD/Document 1522]
2. 78/Hytone K 129 A (Lucille Hegamin and Her Blue Flame
Syncopators) [also 78/Puritan 11108; 78/Paramount 20108;
78/Cameo 287; 78/Arto 9129; 78/Banner 1048; 78/Regal 9315;
78/Black Swan 2049; reissued on Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1
(1920-1922), CD/Document 5419 (two versions)]
3. 78/Decca 7528 (Trixie Smith with orchestra conducted by
Charlie Shavers) [also 78/Decca M 30344; 78/Black Swan 14114;
reissued on Completed Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1922-1924),
CD/Document 5332]
4. 78/Perfect 14067 (Original Memphis Five) [reissued on Pathe
Instrumentals: Complete Set 1922-1926, CD/Retrieval Recordings
79044]
5. 78/Bluebird B 6617 (Amanda Randolph, vocal, with Amanda
Randolph and Her Orchestra) [reissued on The 30s Girls,
CD/Timeless 26]
6. 78/Bluebird B 10171 (Elisse Cooper with Eddie DeLange and His
Orchestra)
7. 78/Brunswick 2380 (The Cotton Pickers) [reissued on The
Cotton Pickers: 1922-1925, CD/Timeless 29]
8. 78/Okeh 4774 (The Original Six directed by George Kelly)
9. 78/Okeh 8037 (Lizzie Miles with orchestra) [reissued on
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1922-23), CD/Document 5458]
10. 78/Victor 19018 (The Virginians directed by Ross Gorman)
11. 78/Vocalion 04013 (The Yas Yas Girl (Merline Johnson))
[reissued on The Yas Yas Girl, Vol. 1: Complete Works (May 1937
- April 1938), CD/Document 5292]
12. 78/Capitol 1303 (Ann Jones with instrumental accompaniment)
13. 45/Coral 9-61487 (Pearl Bailey with orchestra conducted by
Don Redman)
14. He May Be Your Man (But He Comes To See Me Sometimes),
Delmark 637 (Edith Wilson) [reissued as CD/Delmark 637]
15. Eubie Blake And His Friends Edith Wilson And Ivan Harold
Browing, Eubie Blake Music (S) EBM-3 (Edith Wilson with Eubie
Blake, piano)
16. Partners In Time, CAS/Blind Pig 2988 (Mr. B)
17. The Chronological Sidney Bechet 1937-1938, CD/Classics 593
(Noble Sissle's Swingsters with Sidney Bechet)
18. Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1922-1923), CD/Document
5420 (Lucille Hegamin)
19. Alternate Takes & Remaining Titles, CD/Document 1011
(Lucille Hegamin) (Take 1)
20. Completed Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1925-1939), CD/Document
5333 (Trixie Smith with orchestra including Sidney Bechet and
Charlie Shavers)
21. Shining The Pearls, CD/Blind Pig 1886 (Mr. B)
22. Blues Women: 1944-1952, CD/Acrobat ACMCD4006 (Miss Rhapsody
with orchestra)
23. Gay Love, CD/Garret Mountain Records CDP ES0804 (Jon
Peterson with musical direction by Richard Danley)
How Ya’ Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm (After They’ve See
Paree)? (M: Walter Donaldson; L: Sam M. Lewis; Joe Young):
I have not attempted to
compile discographical information for this number beyond
original cast member performances.
1. 78/Pathe 22080 (Noble Sissle, vocal, with Lieut. Jim Europe’s
369th U.S. Inf. “Hell Fighterss” Band) [reissued on James Reese
Europe’s 369th U.S. Infanty “Hell Fighters” Band, CD/Memphis
Archives 7020]
I Am Craving For That Kind Of Love
(Kiss Me) (subsequently used in SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950 and
PLANTATION DAYS):
1. 78/Emerson 10512 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake) [also 78/Regal 9203; reissued on Sissle
And Blake: Eary Rare Recordings Volume 1, Eubie Blake Music (M)
EBM-4]
2. 78/Okeh 8004 (Gertrude Saunders with Tim Brymm and His Black
Devil Orchestra) [reissued on Female Blues Singers, Vol. 13: R/S
(1921-1931), CD/Document DOCD 5517]
3. Wild About Eubie, Columbia (S) M 34504 (Joan Morris with
William Bolcom, piano)
4. Eubie!, Warner Bros. 3267 (Lynne Godfrey with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) (two renditions) [reissued as
CD/Kritzerland KR 20030-5]
5. Black Manhattan, Volume 2, CD/New World Records 80731-2
(Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
6. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
7. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
If You’ve Never Been Vamped By A Brown
Skin (You’ve Never Been Vamped At All) (also used in SHUFFLE
ALONG OF 1950):
1. 78/Paramount 12002
(Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
2. Eubie Blake And His Friends Edith
Wilson And Ivan Harold Browning, Eubie Blake Music (S) EBM-3
(Ivan Harold Browning and Eubie Blake) [reissued on Sissle And
Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
3. The Eighty-Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
4. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (cast with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
5. Black Manhattan, Volume 2, CD/New World Records 80731-2
(Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
6. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
7. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
I’m (Just) Simply Full Of Jazz:
1. 78/Pathe 22284 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake) [reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing
Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
2. The Eighty-Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
3. Paris In The Jazz Age, CD/Maison Clobert (Claudia Hommel)
4. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical
Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Adrienne
Warren, Billy Porter, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Company with
orchestra conducted by Shelton Becton)
I’m Just Wild About Harry (same lyric
as pop song “My Loving Baby”) (subsequently used in
HARLEM CAVALCADE, SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950, SHUFFLE ALONG OF
1952, and BLACK BROADWAY):
I have not attempted to
compile discographical information for this number beyond
original cast member performances.
1. 78/Victor 18791 (Eubie Blake and His Shuffle Along Orchestra)
[reissued on Sissle And Blake: Early Rare Recordingss Volume 2,
Eubie Blake Music (M) EBM-7; also found on Shuffle Along, New
World (M) NW-260]
2. 78/Emerson 10396 (Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle) [reissued on
Star Spangled Rhythm, CD/Smithsonian RD-111]
3. 78/Variety 552 (Noble Sissle and His Orchestra)
4. Lew Leslie's Blackbirds Of 1928/Shuffle Along, 10”/RCA Victor
LPM 3154 (Thelma Carpenter and Avon Long with orchestra
conducted by Eubie Blake) [reissued on Blackbirds Of
1928/Shuffle Along, CD/Masterworks Broadway 88697-96188-2]
5. The Eighty-Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake) (original waltz version)
6. The Eighty Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle) (part of medley)
7. Eubie Blake And His Friends, Eubie Blake Music 3 (Ivan Harold
Browning with Eubie Blake, piano) [reissued on Sissle And
Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
8. Live Concert, Stash (S) ST-130 (Eubie Blake)
9. Josephine Baker Live At Carnegie Hall, Private Disc (S)
JB-001 (Josephine Baker) OC
10. Josphine A Bobino, 1975, Festival (S) FLD-643 (Josephine
Baker)
11. Memories Of You, CD/Biograph BCD-112 (Eubie Blake, piano)
12. That's Ragtime, CD/AEI AEI-CD 606 (Eubie Blake, piano)
(original tempo)
13. That's Ragtime, CD/AEI AEI-CD 606 (Eubie Blake, piano)
14. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle and Ruth Williams with Eubie Blake, piano)
15. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
16. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
17. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle and Laverne Hutchinson with Eubie Blake,
piano)
In Honeysuckle Time (When Emmaline
Said She’d Be Mine) (also
used in SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950):
1. 78/Emerson 10385
(Noble Sissle and His Sizzing Syncopators) [also 78/Regal
9102 (as “Leonard Graham and His Jazz Band”; reissued
Shuffle Along, New World (M) NW-260]
2. 78/Emerson 10434 (Eubie Blake) [reissued Shuffle Along,
New World (M) NW-260]
3. 78/Victor 18791 (Eubie Blake and His Shuffle Along
Orchestra) [reissued Shuffle Along, New World (M) NW-260]
4. 78/Regal 9102 (Leonard Graham and His Jazz Band)
5. Eubie Blake And His Friends Edith Wilson And Ivan
Harold Browning, Eubie Blake Music (S) EBM-3 (Ivan Harold
Browning and Eubie Blake) [reissued on Sissle And Blake
Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
6. The Eighty-Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S)
C2S-847 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
7. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (cast with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
8. Bubbling Brown Sugar, CD/DRG 13106 (Lon Satton and
Billy Daniels)
9. Bubbling Brown Sugar, CD/Amherst Records AMH 93310
(Avon Long and Joseph Attles)
10. Black Manhattan, Volume 2, CD/New World Records
80731-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick
Benjamin)
11. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD
3204 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
12. Sissle &
Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger HCD-3402
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
Love Will Find A Way (also used in SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950, SHUFFLE
ALONG OF 1952, BLACK BROADWAY and BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR) :
1. 78/Path 020655 (The
Seven Black Dots)
2. 78/Emerson 10604 (Noble Sissle and His Sizzling Syncopators)
3. 78/Emerson 10396 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
[reissued on Star Spangled Rhythm, CD/Smithsonian Collection
RD-111]
4. 78/Columbia 38226 (Hazel Scott, piano, with rhythm
accompaniment) [reissued on The Chronological Hazel Scott
1946-1947, CD/Classics France 1448]
5. 78/Brunswick 2144 (Selvin's Orchestra)
6. 78/Okeh 4504 (James P. Johnson's Harmony Eight) [reissued on
The Chronological James P. Johnson 1921-1928, CD/Classics 658]
7. 78/Regal 9107 (Leonard Graham with Robert Black, piano)
8. 78/Edison 50866 (Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra)
9. 78/Vocalion 14218 (Leroy Smith's Dance Orchestra)
10. Songs From Shuffle Along, 45/Victor EPA 482 (Louise Woods
and Laurence Watson with orchestra directed by Eubie Blake)
11. Eubie Blake Volume 1: Featuring Ivan Harold Browning, Eubie
Blake Music 1 (Ivan Harold Browning with Eubie Blake, piano)
[reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger
HCD 3204]
12. Memoirs of Willie "The Lion" Smith, RCA VIC SP6016 (Willie
"The Lion" Smith) [reissued as CD/BMG 74321264152]
13. Black Beauty, Sackville 3029 (Doc Cheatham) [reissued on
Duets & Solos, CD/Sackville SK2CD-5002]
14. Chelsea Bridge, East Wind 8023 (Al Haig)
15. It's About Time, EFA Records 25211 (Dorf)
16. Josephine Baker Live At Carnegie Hall, Private Disc (S)
JB-001 (Josephine Baker) OC
17. The Eighty-Six Years Of Eubie Blake, Columbia (S) C2S-847
(Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
18. Pork And Beans, CD/Black Lion BLCD-760144 (Willie "The Lion"
Smith)
19. Swinging Down In New Orleans, CD/Jazzology 233 (Doc
Cheatham)
20. Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra Plays Classic Ragtime &
Popular Hits, CD/Odin 40382]
21. Keep A Song In Your Soul, CD/Jazzology 250 (Marty Grosz)
22. Listen To My Music, Vol. 2, CD/Hep 57 (Ted Heath and His
Music)
23. Krazy Kapers, CD/Jazzology 339 (Duke Heiger)
24. Creole Belles, CD/Arhoolie 420 (New Orleans Ragtime
Orchestra)
25. Memories Of You, CD/Sound Hills 8068 (Eddie Thompson Trio)
26. Memories Of You, CD/Sound Hills 8068 (Eddie Thompson Trio)
(alternate take)
27. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
28. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
29. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
30. Black Manhattan, Volume 2, CD/New World Records 80731-2
(Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
31. Black Manhattan Volume 3, CD/New World Records 80795-2
(Paragon Ragtime Orchestra directed by Rick Benjamin)
32. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Charlotte Holloman and Laverne Hutchinson with Eubie
Blake, piano)
Low Down Blues (Lowdown Blues)
(interpolated from vaudeville):
1. 78/Emerson 10365 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake) [also 78/Emerson 10627; 78/Regal 946;
reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger
HCD 3204]
2. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (Gregory Hines with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
3. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (cast with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
4. Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950,
CD/Columbia/Legacy C4K-47911 (Whistler & His Jug Band)
5. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical
Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Billy
Porter and Company with orchestra conducted by Shelton Becton)
Mirandy (also used in SHUFFLE ALONG
OF 1950):
1. 78/Pathe 22089 (Noble
Sissle and Lt. Jim Europe’s 369th U.S. Infantry Band) [reissued
on James Reese Europe’s 369th U.S. Infanty “Hell Fighters” Band,
CD/Memphis Archives 7020]
2. Memories Of You, CD/Biograph BCD 112 (Eubie Blake, piano
roll)
3. Moonlight Bay: Songs As Is And Songs As Was, CD/Albany 318
(William Bolcom)
4. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
5. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
On Patrol In No Man’s Land (Out In No Man’s Land) (M: Eubie
Blake; James Reese Europe) (interpolated from vaudeville):
1. 78/Pathe 22089 (Noble
Sissle and Lt. Jim Europe’s 369th U.S. Infantry Band) [reissued
on James Reese Europe’s 369th U.S. Infanty “Hell Fighters” Band,
CD/Memphis Archives 7020]
Opening Chorus:
1. Black Manhattan, Volume 2,
CD/New World Records 80731-2 (Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
directed by Rick Benjamin)
Oriental Blues:
1. 78/Emerson 10396 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake) [reissued on Sissle And Blake Sing
Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
Pickaninny Shoes (sheet music only):
1. 78/Okeh 40917 (Noble
Sissle and Eubie Blake) [also 78/Paramount R-186; reissued on
Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204]
2. The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939, CD/EMI Classics 2155862
(Paul Robeson)
Serenade Blues:
1. 78/Columbia A 3654
(Frank Westphal and His Rainbo Orchestra)
2. 78/Brunswick 2300 (Oriole Terrace Orchestra)
Shuffle Along (also used in SHUFFLE
ALONG OF 1950):
1. 78/Edison 50866 (Harry
Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra)
2. Eubie, Warner Bros. (S) HS-3267 (cast with orchestra
conducted by Danny Holgate) [reissued as CD/Kritzerland KR
20030-5]
3. Paris In The Jazz Age, CD/Maison Clobert (Claudia Hommel)
4. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
5. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical
Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Audra
McDonald and Company with orchestra conducted by Shelton Becton)
6. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
Struttin' (used in the Shuffle Along,
Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed):
1. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The
Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Joshua Henry, Brandon Victor Dixon,
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, and Company with
orchestra conducted by Shelton Becton)
Swing Along (used in the Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the
Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed):
1. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The
Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra
McDonald, Billy Porter, and Company with orchestra conducted
by Shelton Becton)
They Won't Remember You (used in the Shuffle Along, Or The
Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed):
1. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The
Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Brooks Ashmanskas, Amber Iman,
Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Company with orchestra conducted
by Shelton Becton)
You're Lucky To Me (used in the Shuffle Along, Or The Making
of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed):
1. Songs From Shuffle Along, Or The
Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed, CD/Tony Promo (Audra McDonald and Brandon Victor
Dixon with orchestra conducted by Shelton Becton)
Unrecorded Material:
African Dip
Buzz Mirandy
Everything Reminds Me Of You
Finale (Act 2)
Grand Finale (Act 1)
Kentucky Sue (cut)
Liza Quit Vamping Me (cut)
My Vision Girl (added after opening; originally used in MIDNIGHT
ROUNDERS OF 1920)
Old Black Joe And Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom And Old Black Joe)
Opening Chorus
Sing Me To Sleep, Dear Mammy (With A Hushabye Pickaninny Tune)
Syncopation Stenos