Noble Sissle, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• I'm Just Wild about Harry

Research Resources: Noble Sissle

• Amazon
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Noble Sissle
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (recordings and albums featuring xxx songs)
• Jass.com (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)
• Library of Congress (brief Bio.)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• RedHotJazz.com (discography of Sissle and his Orchestra)
• Wikipedia (Noble Sissle article)
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. )
• 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 (entry for Sissle and Blake pp. 48-53).
• Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (chapter on Sissle and Blake show Shuffle Along plus other references).
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (page long comment on Sissle and Shuffle Along).
• David A. Jasen and Gene Jones, Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters,
  1880-1930, New York: Schirmer Books, 1998 (paperback edition, Routledge, 2005 (subchapter on Sissle and Blake plus multiple references)
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. 95-96 overview plus lyrics to 3 songs). Read the introduction to this book at NYTimes.com.
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 464).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (scattered references to Sissle).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (entry for Sissle song "I'm Just Wild abut Harry" plus other references).

• Noble Sissle, photo portrait by Carl Van Vechten: Library of Congress / Public Domain / Wikipedia Commons

Notes

• Sissle and Blake Rare Early Recordings, Vol. 1

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