Eubie Blake: I'm just wild about Harry ( piano transcription ).

This arrangement comes from book of anonymous piano transcriptions of standards: "The Best in Broadway Standards: Piano Solos" - published by Warner Bros. in 1991, and found by me recently in a charity shop. Unlike many such books these pieces are not mere reductions of the published piano/vocal arrangements, but independent arrangements without chord symbols.. This quietly understated 1990 arrangement is of a popular song by Eubie Blake (1887-1983) which featured in the 1921 Broadway show 'Shuffle Along' - the first such with an all-African American cast. It was also Harry Truman's 1946 campaign song. This transcription looks back to the original waltz-time version and not the later foxtrot arrangement.
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Played by Phillip Sear
http://www.psear.co.uk

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• piano
• popular
• US
• standard
• American

[WHQODJYSingers]

I never know how long to hold those last notes ... till they finish ringing? ... suddenly lift the pedal? I always wrestle with those last tones.

[PSearPianist]

@WHQODJYSingers The last notes of any piece are always a problem, and it depends on the piece. What one definitely does not want is a noise of the pedal being lifted!

[credman]

Wow, I wish I could get the sheets from you. That's a beautiful arrangement.

[PSearPianist]

I can't really distribute it to you because it is still well in copyright (I can remember when Eubie Blake was still alive!). The arrangement was in a book of Broadway piano solos.

[jannarta]

Hello Phillip, my brother is named Harry, :younger, taller, debonair and able to ride the ups and downs of life without a care in the world. Somewhat different to my life in the R.N. as a Clearance Diver- but we are good friends.janarta.

[PSearPianist]

Sounds like someone who knows how to live life!

[PSearPianist]

That's a pleasure!

[spitzfire1138]

Just lovely, Phillip. Thanks so much for posting!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you!

[nawanilakgaP]

great!