became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African Americans. It was the first all-black show to reach the Broadway stage in over a decade and included a teenage Josephine Baker among the performers. The musical introduced songs such as "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and "Love Will Find a Way". Sissle and his band appear in a 1931 British Pathétone Weekly filmed at Ciro's nightclub in London, performing Walter Donaldson's "Little White Lies" and "Happy Feet", written by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager. In 1932, Sissle appeared with Nina Mae McKinney, the Nicholas Brothers, and Eubie Blake in Pie, Pie Blackbird, a Vitaphone short released by Warner Bros. In February 1931, Sissle accompanied Adelaide Hall on piano at the prestigious Palace Theatre (Broadway) in New York during her 1931-32 world tour. In 1932, Noble Sissle and Band appeared in the Vitaphone film "That's the Spirit," also featuring Cora La Redd and Miller and Moreland. Sissle collaborated with other artist such as Lena Horne and Duke Ellington, and was friends with Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, and Nat King Cole. In 1954, New York radio station WMGM, which was then owned by Loew's Theatre Organization, signed Sissle as a disc jockey. His show featured the music of African-American recording artists. Sissle was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Legacy In 2018, Sissle was the subject of the short documentary Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime, directed and produced by Daniel L. Bernardi and David de Rozas. See also African American musical theater Bibliography Williams, Iain Cameron (2002). Underneath A Harlem Moon Chapter 3: Shuffle-Along Nicely - recounts the Shuffle Along musical. References Bibliography Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, 363-395, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. External links Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake at Jass.com Noble Sissle cylinder recordings, from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. Noble Sissle: A Messenger of Musical Uplift, by Steve Proviser Biographical article 1889 births 1975 deaths 369th Infantry Regiment personnel African-American jazz composers African-American jazz musicians American jazz bandleaders Broadway composers and lyricists American male jazz composers American jazz composers Musicians from Indianapolis Musicians from Tampa, Florida Vaudeville performers African Americans in World War I 20th-century African-American musicians 20th-century American male musicians Shortridge High School alumni African-American United States Army personnel