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That's Why They Call Me Shine

"Shine" history
Dabney composed several ragtimes, including:

 "Shine" (©1910), R.C. McPherson (aka Cecil Mack) and Ford Dabney, publisher words Cecil Mack, music by Dabney. The song (which was originally called "That's Why They Call Me Shine"). Artists who recorded "Shine" include:
 * From His Honor the Barber, first produced by S.H. Dudley in 1909, with a notable production by Dudley in 1911 at the Majestic Theater, currently the site if the Time Warner Center; stars included Dudley and Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914), who sang "Shine"

According to songwriter Perry Bradford, the song was inspired by a real person named 'Shine' (possibly 'Kid Shine'), a street tough who was a friend of George Walker, and who was caught with Walker in the New York City race riot of August 1900

Not only do the lyrics echo themes in Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1895 poem 'We Wear the Mask,' the text signifies what Du Bois calls living a 'double life, with double thoughts, double duties, and double social classes ...' The lyrics of 'Shine' draw our attention to the double consciousness of racial identity, and parody racism through inverting the position of the signifier. The signifier (Walker) inverts the signified (racial identification; i.e., names), subverting racist signification. 'Shine,' Richard Newman writes, 'is almost a song of social protest in its antiracism.'

In 1924, fourteen years after "Shine" was published, Lew Brown changed the lyrics from a black man singing about himself to a shoe shine man who has a sunny outlook.

"Shine" selected discography

 * Louis Armstrong (studio, March 9, 1931, Los Angeles, matrix 404421-C, Okeh 41486),
 * Count Basie,
 * Sidney Bechet (studio, August 25, 1953, New York, matrix BN520-4, Blue Note BLP7026),
 * Bing Crosby (studio, February 29, 1932, New York, matrix 11376-A, Brunswick 6276),
 * Ella Fitzgerald (studio, November 19, 1936, New York, matrix 61421-A, Decca 1062),
 * Frankie Laine (studio, 1947, matrix runout 1131-7 P 19 R S, Mercury ‎5091).
 * A cover by Django Reinhardt with vocalist sung Dooley Wilson playing Sam was included in the 1942 film Casablanca. (October 15, 1936, Paris, matrix OLA1293-1)

Chief collaborators

 * As songwriters


 * Cecil Mack (1873–1944); re: Shine
 * Lew Brown (1893–1958)

Selected audio

 * Showarama Gypsy Jazz, Magnolia Entertainment NOLA
 * "Shine" (instrumental only; audio via YouTube)




 * "Shine" (audio via YouTube)
 * "Shine" (audio via YouTube)
 * "Shine" (audio via YouTube)


 * Grammophon (F)K-7790, Matrix OLA1293-1, recorded October 15, 1936, Paris
 * "Shine" (audio via YouTube)
 * "Shine" (audio via YouTube)

Rollography

 * Played by Lee Sims (1898–1966), United States Piano Roll Company, Roll 42089
 * "Shine" (audio via YouTube)


 * Ferde Grofé (1892–1972) ("assisted"), Ampico 205001-E, "recording with words"
 * "Shine," fox trot, E♭

Filmography

 * ''Casablanca (1934)


 * 1941 Paramount feature film: Birth of the Blues
 * "That's Why They Call Me Shine"

Gotham-Attucks

 * (notes)

Addresses

 * 1907: 42 West 28th Street, New York, New York "Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx" (part 2 of 3) (re: "Gotham-Attucks Music"), Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company, Vol. 120, July 1, 1907, p. 570

Personnell

 * 1907
 * 42 West 28th Street, New York


 * Alexander Rogers, President
 * Richard C. McPherson, Secretary
 * (Capital $10,000)
 * Directors


 * Alexander Rogers
 * Richard C. McPherson
 * Barron D. Wilkins (de) (1862–1924)
 * George W. Walker
 * Bert W. Williams
 * Jesse A. Shipp: 1907: 42 West 28th Street, New York, New York


 * The Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company, Vol. 54, March 1906

Josephine Hall

 * Josephine Hall

Copyrights

 * Original copyrights


 * Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3 Musical Compositions, New Series, Library of Congress, Copyright Office


 * Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 5 A (Published Music), No. 1; Library of Congress, Copyright Office
 * Vol. 5, January–June 1948 (1948), p. 424] "S-H-I-N-E" ("That's Why They Call Me Shine"); words by Cecil Mack and Lew Brown, music by Ford Dabney (new words in chorus by Elliott Shapiro); © 25 February 1948; EP29015; Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., New York


 * Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Renewal Registrations – Music, Library of Congress, Copyright Office


 * Copyright renewals