Blake Eubie Music (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Folio, softcover, fine, clean and unmarked in hot pink pictorial wraps. movie starred Steve Allen and Donna Reed. Music like new, clean and unmarked, 4 pp. "why can't I forget like I should?" heaven knows I would if I could.

Scarce sheet music for a song by James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle, and Eubie Blake, issued as Europe's 369th Infantry "Hell Fighters" band was returning from the First World War and its success was being carried into American popular music. The cover gives a large photographic portrait of Europe in uniform, identifies him as director of "The Hell Fighters Band," and advertises the song as sung by Noble Sissle with "Jim Europe's Famous Military Band," with a smaller uniformed portrait of Sissle at lower right. Europe and Sissle had served together with the celebrated 369th Infantry Regiment, whose band became one of the most visible Black American musical organizations of the war. After returning to New York, Europe's band recorded "Mirandy" for Pathé in March 1919, with Sissle singing.Europe was killed only two months later, in May 1919. The sheet comes from the very brief postwar period in which Europe and Sissle were still being marketed publicly through their military identities. The song itself is a comic love number set in Jacksonville, beginning with its description of Sandy and his sweetheart Mirandy and moving into the refrain, "There ain't no gal as sweet as my Mirandy." Sissle and Blake continued to perform "Mirandy" after Europe's death, including during their appearances in Shuffle Along, the enormously successful 1921 production that established their partnership on Broadway. . Good plus, with several closed tears to wrappers and leaves, including a longer tear at lower inner margin; light handling and soiling. 4 pp. Illustrated wrappers. 12 x 9 inches. Still attractive, with the illustrated front wrapper retaining strong contrast. Rear wrapper advertises 'Himalya' by S. R. Henry, D. Onivas, and Frank H. Warren.…

4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Rare: OCLC locates only the Yale and the British Library copies. This example bears a gift inscription to Clarence L. Holte (1909-1993), the prominent African-American bibliophile and publisher of "The Basic Afro-American Reprint Library" Pictorial self wrappers with photo of King on upper cover. Very good.…