"Shine"

[Page Stephens]

Last year I was on a jury with a Black friend of mine, and if you know
anything about jury duty you have to spend seemingly endless hours in the
jury room waiting for something to happen so Joe began to tell Shine jokes
to the rest of us.

Not being shy I replied to him by telling hillbilly jokes and by the time
our jury duty was over we had gotten to the point where someone or other
suggested that we go out on the comedy circuit as Shine and the Hillbilly.

We never did it but it was a lot of fun while it lasted.

Page Stephens

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Thompson" <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: "Shine"


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> 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
>>