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-sensation-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: -------------------------- 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.
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