SHUFFLE ALONG OF 1950
Composer: Eubie
Blake
Lyricist: Noble Sissle
Opened: Never Produced
Performances:
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)
Boogie Woogie Beguine:
1. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle
Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake,
piano)
Election Day In Jim Town (skit) (also used in SHUFFLE ALONG):
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 HCD3204
(Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
3. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
Gypsy Blues (also used in
SHUFFLE ALONG, 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)
I Am Craving For That Kind Of Love
(Kiss Me) (also used in SHUFFLE ALONG 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)
I’m Just Wild About Harry (same lyric
as pop song “My Loving Baby”) (also used in HARLEM
CAVALCADE, SHUFFLE ALONG, 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. Memories Of You, CD/Biograph BCD-112 (Eubie Blake, piano)
10. That's Ragtime, CD/AEI AEI-CD 606 (Eubie Blake, piano)
(original tempo)
11. That's Ragtime, CD/AEI AEI-CD 606 (Eubie Blake, piano)
12. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD
3204 (Noble Sissle and Ruth Williams with Eubie Blake,
piano)
13. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger
HCD3204 (Uncredited QFS Piano Roll)]
14. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
15. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle and Laverne Hutchinson 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):
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)
8. Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along Of 1950, CD/Harbinger
HCD-3402 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
In
Honeysuckle Time (When Emmaline Said She’d Be Mine) (also
used in SHUFFLE ALONG):
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, SHUFFLE
ALONG OF 1950, 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)
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)
Mirandy (also used in SHUFFLE ALONG):
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)
My Platform Of Swing:
1. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD
3204 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
Rhythm Of America:
1. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD
3204 (Noble Sissle with Eubie Blake, piano)
Shuffle Along (also used in SHUFFLE ALONG):
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)
Two Hearts In Tune:
1. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Charlotte Holloman and Laverne Hutchinson with Eubie Blake,
piano)
Underneath The Swanee Moon:
1. Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along, CD/Harbinger HCD 3204
(Noble Sissle and Charlotte Holloman with Eubie Blake, piano)