converted lecture hall that lacked a proper stage or orchestra pit. The show overcame financial straits and a poor location to become "the first all-black musical to enjoy a long run and be treated as more than an oddity." "I'm Just Wild About Harry" was the most popular number of the show. Blake conducted the show's orchestra and recorded the song for the Victor label. Noble Sissle's 1937 recording for the Victory label altered the original tone considerably in order to showcase the talents of clarinetist Sidney Bechet. Other early recordings include those by Benny Krueger, Louis Mitchell and Paul Whiteman. In 2014, it returned to Broadway in a revival of Shuffle Along. Use in other media Shining Time Station references the song in the season one title Just Wild About Harry's Workshop Judy Garland sang the piece as one of several songs in a minstrel show in the M-G-M musical Babes in Arms (1939). Alice Faye sang it with Louis Prima's band in the 1939 film Rose of Washington Square. It was signature tune of Hi Gang!, a popular BBC Radio comedy show of the early World War II years, starring the American actors Bebe Daniels and her husband Ben Lyon, who had settled in London, and the British comedian Vic Oliver. In 1943, Daffy Duck sang a chorus of it in the cartoon short Yankee Doodle Daffy. In 1948 "I'm Just Wild About Harry" underwent a revival when Harry S. Truman selected it as his campaign song for the presidency of the United States. Republicans and some Democrats that year joked, "I'm just mild about Harry." The next year Al Jolson performed it in the film Jolson Sings Again (lip-synced by Larry Parks as Jolson) and the song became a jazz standard. This return to popularity briefly reunited Blake and Sissle for the first time since 1933. In 1955, the song again appeared in the Warner Brothers cartoon short One Froggy Evening as one of the songs sung by Michigan J. Frog during his dance routine. Kathy Linden released a version of the song on her 1958 album, That Certain Boy. Writing about American popular songs in 1972, Wilder and Maher call "I'm Just Wild About Harry" the only enduringly popular song from Shuffle Along. In season 4, episode 6 of the historical drama series, Downton Abbey, jazz bandleader Jack Ross sings the song at a surprise birthday