Oral History and Research Materials:  Eubie Blake

                

          This is the table of contents for the interview of Eubie Blake.  It is part of the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive which is located in

          Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.           

          If interested in reviewing these materials from the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive, please contact Therese Dickman, Fine Arts Librarian.

For a complete contents list of all musician interviews for the oral history project, please click  on this link:  Oral History and Research Materials.

     

                        Tape #   Side                   Running Time on Tape                   Subject

                                  1  a                                       015-050                             Eubie as a nickname

                                  1  a                                       051-065                             Birth in Baltimore, 1883

                                  1  a                                       066-104                             Parents; as slave; family

                                  1  a                                       105-114                             Music in family

                                  1  a                                       115-133                             Longevity; Eubie's father

                                  1  a                                       134-175                             Eubie's father and the American flag

                                  1  a                                       176-192                             Lee Whipper, Porgy

                                  1  a                                       193-283                             How Eubie started playing the organ

                                  1  a                                       284-307                             First lessons; Margaret Marshall

                                  1  a                                       308-319                             Improvising on the organ

                                  1  a                                       320-340                             Ragtime, origins of

                                  1  a                                       341-403                             Eubie's girlfriend, her lawn party; Edgar Dow

                                  1  a                                       404-449                             Plays "Dream Rag"

                                  1  a                                       450-480                             Jessie Picket, Composer of "Dream Rag"

                                  1  a                                       481-493                             Basil Chase; Eubie age 15-16

                                  1  a                                       494-508                             Dr. Frisbee's medicine show

                                  1  a                                       509-628                             Job at Aggie Shelton's Place

                                  1  a                                       629-634                             Next job

                                  1  a                                       635-648                             Old Kentucky Show

                                  1  a                                       649-654                             Playing cabarets in New York

                                  1  a                                       655-665                             Type of music played in bordellos

                                  1  a                                       666-702                             Plays excerpts of music

                                  1  a                                       703-709                             1905; playing in New York and Atlantic City

                                  1  a                                       710-712                             Goldfield Hotel

                                  1  b                                       063-095                             Rags, classic flavor of

                                  1  b                                       096-111                             Composing of Charleston Rag

                                  1  b                                       112-144                             Learning show music

                                  1  b                                       145-176                             Jim Europe's band

                                  1  b                                       177-224                             Early rags - "Chevy Chase" and "Fizzwater"; publisher's tricks

                                                                                                                        - no royalties

                                  1  b                                       225-274                             Plays "Charleston Rag"

                                  1  b                                       275-280                             First musical comedy

                                  1  b                                       281-394                             Discrimination against blacks in show business; musicians

                                                                                                                       salaries; Kieth Vaundeville. Dressing facilities for blacks;

                                                                                                                       Eubie's father on Decoration Day

                                  1  b                                       395-406                             Blank

                                  1  b                                       407-491                             Attitudes of young blacks; feelings of older blacks

                                  1  b                                       492-504                             First show; Shuffle Along

                                  1  b                                       505-523                             Playing in small towns

                                  1  b                                       524-549                             Getting from New Jersey to Washington, D.C.

                                  1  b                                       550-565                             Thomas Brothers and race track incident

                                  1  b                                       566-580                             Getting from Washington, D.C. to New York

                                  1  b                                       581-592                             Minstrel shows; comedians

                                  1  b                                       593-599                             Blank

                                  1  b                                       600-645                             Minstrel shows

                                  1  b                                       646-668                             Continued popularity of "I'm Just Wild About Harry"

                                  1  b                                       669-704                             Partnership with Noble Sissle

                                  1  b                                       705-724                             Josephine Baker

                                  1  b                                       713-719                             Blank

                                  1  b                                       720-740                             One-leg Willie

                                  1  b                                       725-736                             Countries played on tour

                                  1  b                                       737-                                   End of tape

                                  1  b                                       740-                                   End of side one

                                  2  a                                       003-025                             USO tours

                                  2  a                                       026-038                             Travels in U.S.; wife acts as agent

                                  2  a                                       039-056                             Recent compositions

                                  2  a                                       057-105                             Plays "Melodic Rag"

                                  2  a                                       106-141                             Present popularity of ragtime; what makes music ragtime

                                  2  a                                       142-                                   End of tape

 

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