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Noble Sissle (b. July 10 1889, Indianapolis, Indiana - d. December 17, 1975, Tampa, Florida) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.
   He is noted for his collaboration with songwriter, Eubie Blake. The pair first performed in vaudeville and later produced the musicals Shuffle Alongand The Chocolate Dandies. Sissle is also, famously, the only African-American artist to appear in the Pathe film archives.
   Shortly after World War I, Sissle joined forces with performer Eubie Blake to form a vaudeville music duo, "The Dixie Duo". After vaudeville, the pair began work on a musical revue, Shuffle Along, which incorporated many songs they'd written, and had a book written by F. E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles. When it premiered in 1921, Shuffle Along became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans. The musicals also introduced hit songs such as "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and "Love Will Find a Way."
   In 1923, Sissle made two films for Lee DeForest in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. They were Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake featuring Sissle and Blake's song "Affectionate Dan", and Sissle and Blake Sing Snappy Songs featuring "Sons of Old Black Joe" and "My Swanee Home". These films are preserved in the Maurice Zouary film collection at the Library of Congress.
   Sissle was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
   His rendition of the song Viper Mad was included in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown.

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