Research Catalog

Title

Compilation of songs, commentaries, and fragments [sound recording] / Eubie Blake.

Author

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983.
• Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975.
• Jordan, Joe, 1882-1971.
• May, Ada, 1901?-1978.
• Lee, Mable.

Found In

Carl Seltzer collection of Eubie Blake recordings.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 61 min.) : digital, mono/stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

An assortment of various recordings of songs performed by EB and NS and by unidentified performers. Contains commentaries, fragments of piano playing and conversations, and a commercial. "The doom pussy", a musical work, written and composed by EB and NS, was commissioned by Elaine Shepard, the author of a book with the same title, about the action in Vietnam. Included is a recorded greeting and a song composed and performed by Joe Jordan and dedicated to EB and NS.

Alternative Title

Carl Seltzer collection of Eubie Blake recordings.

Subjects

• Popular music > 1971-1980
• Ragtime music
• Piano music (Ragtime)

Note

• Title provided by cataloger.
• Compact disc.

Access (note)

• Access to original items restricted.

Event (note)

• Track 11 was recorded on Oct. 23, 1956 ; Tracks 26-29 were recorded March 5, 1968 ; Tracks 30-31 were recorded March 10, 1968 ; Tracks 32-34 were recorded May 17, 1968. Other works are undated.

Source (note)

• Elaine Shipman (Seltzer);

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Carl Seltzer collection of Eubie Blake recordings, *L(Special) 05-06.

Contents

• Tracks 1-4: First part of Swanee River (from Fantasy on Swanee River?): Give me a song that has a beat (take 1, incomplete) (0:45) ; Give me a song that has a beat (take 2) (1:58) ; The bass fiddle boogie woogie blues (2:18) ; The bass fiddle boogie woogie blues (end only) (0:14) / NS, vocals ; EB, piano.
• Tracks 5-19: End of unknown song / unidentified male vocalist (0:43) ; Trouble seems to follow me around / unknown female vocalist (3:28) ; Fragment (0:14) ; Dub of a commercial 78 rpm disc (unidentified work) (3:28) ; EB trying to play a work (0:29) ; EB and NS talking (0:29) ; You got to git the gittin' while the gittin's good / EB, music ; NS, lyrics (performed by EB, NS and Mable Lee) (2:52) ; Commentary / by EB (1:32) ; Entre nous / by Ada May? ; (performed by EB) (3:09) ; Commentary / by EB (1:54) ; There was he / by Ada May ; (performed by EB) (3:26) ; Commentaries / by EB (0:17 and 0:30) ; I know you (incomplete) / by Ada May ; (performed by EB) (1:20) ; You got to git the gittin' while the gittin's good (excerpt) / performded by EB (0:32) -- Tracks 20-25: Unidentified songs performed by an unidentified female vocalist and EB(?) on the piano (1:35 & 3:19 & 1:50 & 2:00 & 1:30 & 2:11) -- Tracks 26-29: The doom pussy (3 takes) and a commentary / composed and performed by EB and NB (2:36 & 0:40 & 0:18 & 2:13) -- Tracks 30-31: Commentary / by Joe Jordan (0:51) ; A salute to Sissle and Blake / composed and performed by Joe Jordan (2:37) -- Tracks 32-34: Martin Luther King / EB and NS (2:48) ; NS checking level (0:29) ; Martin Luther King (extended version) / EB and NS (6:05).

Call Number

*LDC 50411

OCLC

712598683

Author

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983. Composer. Arranger. Performer. Commentator

Title

Compilation of songs, commentaries, and fragments [sound recording] / Eubie Blake.

Performer

Tracks 1-4: Noble Sissle, vocals ; Eubie Blake, piano.

Tracks 5-34: Mable Lee, vocals ; Eubie Blake, piano, commentary, vocals ; Noble Sissle, commentary and vocals ; Joe Jordan, commentaries and piano ; unidentified vocal performers.

Event

Track 11 was recorded on Oct. 23, 1956 ; Tracks 26-29 were recorded March 5, 1968 ; Tracks 30-31 were recorded March 10, 1968 ; Tracks 32-34 were recorded May 17, 1968. Other works are undated.

Access

Access to original items restricted.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Carl Seltzer collection of Eubie Blake recordings, *L(Special) 05-06.

Local Note

Archive originals: (6 sound tape reels) in *LT-7-A 3177-- 3179, 3181-- 3183.

Preservation master file (8 sound files): phlt7a3177p1, phlt7a3177p2, phlt7a3178p1, phlt7a3178p2, phlt7a3179, phlt7a3181, phlt7a3182, phlt7a3183.

Service CD (1 sound disc : digital, mono/stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archive originals, 2010.

Source

Gift; Elaine Shipman (Seltzer); 2003-2006.

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Added Author

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983. Works. Selections.

Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975. Performer. Lyricist

Jordan, Joe, 1882-1971. Performer. Commentator. Composer

May, Ada, 1901?-1978. Composer

Lee, Mable. Performer

Shipman, Elaine. Donor

Added Title

Carl Seltzer collection of Eubie Blake recordings.

Found In:

Carl Seltzer collection of Eubie Blake recordings.

Research Call Number

*LDC 50411