"Shine"

[George Thompson]

Mack and Brown I don't recognize, off-hand.  Ford Dabney was associated
with James Reese Europe and the Clef Club.  He would have written the
music.  I see from NYTimes on Proquest that Mack lead the choir for an
all-black musical in 1930, with Eubie Blake's orchestra and Ethel
Waters, &c.  Brown was associated with George White and other Broadway
producers as a writer, so he probably wrote the lyrics and was no doubt
a white man.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:19 am
Subject: "Shine"

> The authors of the 1910 version of "Shine" are Ford Dabney, Cecil
> Mack,and Lew Brown, according to a couple of sites on the Web.
>
> -Wilson Gray
>