I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY
Created on 30/01/2003Latest update on 30/01/2024
Artist: Lottie Gee
Author: Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle
Year: 1921
With Eubie Blake on piano in the first successful black musical Shuffle Along, introduced in Trenton, NJ but soon enough on Broadway. Both Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker debuted in one of many casts.
Covers:
- 1922:
- 1922:
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- 1922:
- 1937:
- 1939:
Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney [in film Babes In Arms]
- 1946:
- 1959:
- 1962:
- 1966:
- 1987:
In 1948 it was used as (logical) theme song during Harry Truman's presidential campaign.
