CULTURETECHLENSNoble Sissle
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Combined Graph record U-03520 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1379. Master record source: User-supplied review 2026-10-17 (Once Upon a Time in Harlem review, Oct 15, 2026) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Lyricist and bandleader; Blake's collaborator on Shuffle Along
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Lyricist and bandleader; Blake's collaborator on Shuffle Along
The record
- Role(s): Harlem Renaissance figure
- Known for: Lyricist and bandleader; Blake's collaborator on Shuffle Along
Relationships
- Harlem Renaissance Reunion Party (1972) — appeared in
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Referenced by
- Shuffle Along — authored by → this record
Sources
- https://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/02/10/musical-month-shuffle-along (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Noble Sissle was the lyricist of the songwriting team of Sissle and Eubie Blake; Sissle and Blake supplied the score for Shuffle Along, which opened May 23, 1921 at the 63rd Street Music Hall; the NYPL curator's account identifies Shuffle Along as a catalyst for the Harlem Renaissance ('Negro vogue') admired by Langston Hughes.
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