Songwriter ("I'm Just Wild About Harry", "You Were Meant For Me", "Memories of You"), pianist and arranger, Eubie Blake was educated at New York University. He studied the Schillinger System, and studied with Margaret Marshall and Llewellyn Wilson. He was a pianist and organist in cafés and in vaudeville and theatres...See full bio »
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Gary Busey/Eubie Blake and Gregory Hines
(1979)
(performer: "Low Down Blues" - uncredited, "I'm Just Simply Full Of Jazz" - uncredited, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" - uncredited)
1932Pie, Pie Blackbird
(short)
(music: "Memories of You" - uncredited / performer: "Memories of You" - uncredited, "Everything I've Got Belongs to You" - uncredited, " I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" - uncredited, "China Boy" - uncredited, "Black Maria" - uncredited)
1932Ladies of the Jury
(writer: "I'm Just Wild About Harry" - uncredited)
1931Peach-O-Reno
(music: "I'm Just Wild About Harry" 1921 - uncredited)
1923Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs
(short)
(music: "Sons of Old Black Joe" - uncredited / performer: "Sons of Old Black Joe" - uncredited, "My Swanee Home" - uncredited)
1932Pie, Pie Blackbird
(short)
(musician: piano "Meomories of You", "Everything I've Got Belongs To You", "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead [You Rascal You]", "China Boy", and "Black Maria" - uncredited)
[in 1983, on being asked why his compositions contained so many sharps and flats] Down South where I come from you don't go around hitting too many white keys.
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Trivia:
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 80-82. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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