The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake

The 86 Years of Eubie Blake

Released

1969

Recorded

December 26, 1968 – March 12, 1969

Golden Reunion in Ragtime
(1962)

The 86 Years of Eubie Blake
(1969)

Ragtime Concert
(1973)

The 86 Years of Eubie Blake is a 1969 studio album by ragtime pianist Eubie Blake and marks a reunion for Blake with his longtime collaborator, Noble Sissle. In 2006, the album was entered in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

The album was recorded in three sessions, the first on December 26, 1968, followed by two more on February 6, and March 12, 1969.^[2]^[3]

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Composer
1.	Dream Rag	Jesse Pickett
2.	Semper Fidelis	John Philip Sousa
3.	Tricky Fingers	Eubie Blake
4.	Troublesome Ivories	Blake
5.	Chevy Chase	Blake
6.	Brittwood Rag	Blake
7.	Spanish Venus	Luckey Roberts
8.	As Long As You Live	Bernie Hanighen, Johnny Mercer
9.	Memories of You	Blake, Andy Razaf
10.	Charleston Rag	Blake
11.	Maple Leaf Rag	Scott Joplin
12.	Stars and Stripes Forever	Sousa
13.	Shuffle Along Medley	Blake
14.	I'm Just Wild About Harry	Blake, Noble Sissle
15.	Blue Rag in 12 Keys	Blake
16.	Eubie's Boogie	Blake, Sissle
17.	Poor Jimmy Green
18.	Baltimore Todalo	Blake, Sissle
19.	Poor Katie Red	Blake
20.	Kitchen Tom	Blake
21.	Medley: Bleeding Moon/Under the Bamboo Tree
22.	It's All Your Fault	Blake, Sissle, Nelson
23.	Medley: Charleston/Old-Fashioned Love/If I Could Be With You	Zoltan Fabian, James P. Johnson
24.	You Were Meant For Me	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed
25.	Dixie Moon	Blake, Sissle
26.	Blues, Why Don't You Let Me Alone?	Blake/Arthur Porter

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Jasen, David A. Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz, Routledge (2002), page 47 - ISBN 0-415-93641-1
↑ Track listings

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