Eubie Blake, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany
Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Eubie Blake
The Set includes:
"Betty Washboard Rag" (R. Kreve); "Marian's Waltz" (J.H. Blake); "You're Lucky to Me" (J.H. Blake, A. Razaf); "Charleston Rag" (J.H. Blake);
"Dream Rag" (J.H. Blake); "For the Last Time Call Me Sweetheart" (A. Johns); "The Star Spangled Banner"; "Falling in Love With Someone" (V. Herbert, R. Young); "Kiss Me Again" (V. Herbert, H. Blossom); "St. Louis Blues" (W.C. Handy); "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (E. Blake, N. Sissle); "Gypsy Sweetheart" (V. Herbert, H. Smith)
Research Resources: Eubie Blake
- Amazon (recordings, books, etc.)
- Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center
- Blake Interview: from the CD Rom Who Built America, by Roy Rosenzweig and the American Social History Project
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
- Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits);
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia (biography)
- Maryland Historical Society (The Eubie Blake Papers)
- New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
- The New York Times (articles about the songwriter)
- NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments) including Blake on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland;
- Wikipedia (Blake article)
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (dates, career, shows/movies, songs; 3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 66).
- Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 -- multiple references to Blake songs.
- Robert Kimball. Reminiscing with Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1973 (paper-bound edition, 2000, 2003).
- Al Rose. Eubie Blake. New York: Macmillan, 1983.
- David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (Blake entry, pp. 48-53).
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 46-48).
- Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry for Eubie Blake, p. 75).
- Eubie Blake / James Earl Jones: Blackomni74
- Eubie Blake /"Memories of You": dnworks
Notes
- Listen to Eubie Blake playing, singing and being interviewed on NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland (1980)
- 1. I'm Just Wild about Harry 2. Memories of You
Questions
What is Eubie Blake, songwriter?
The Set includes: "Betty Washboard Rag" (R. Kreve); "Marian's Waltz" (J.H. Blake); "You're Lucky to Me" (J.H. Blake, A. Razaf); "Charleston Rag" (J.H. Blake); "Dream Rag" (J.H. Blake); "For the Last Time Call Me Sweetheart" (A. Johns); "The Star Spangled Banner"; "Falling in Love
How should Eubie Blake, songwriter be cited?
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