When I think of the song, "I'm Just Wild About Harry," I immediately think of a cartoon I once saw, but I just learned it was written by Eubie Blake, an amazing pianist born to former slave parents in 1883 who received the Medal of Freedom from President Reagan in 1981 and was honored by having his name on the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center in Baltimore.
An amazing man.
Thanks to writer Paul McCardell for reminding us:
| Eubie Blake Baltimore Sun, MD - He began playing tunes on a parlor organ at the age of six and soon after was taking piano lessons from a neighbor named Margaret Marshall. ... |
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