 " I 'm Just Wild About Harry " is a song written in 1921 with lyrics by Noble Sissle and music by Eubie Blake for the Broadway show Shuffle Along . " I 'm Just Wild About Harry " was the most popular number of the production , which was the first financially successful Broadway play to have African @-@ American writers and an all African @-@ American cast . The song broke what had been a taboo against musical and stage depictions of romantic love between African @-@ Americans . 
