{"id":4438,"date":"2013-02-07T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:34:22","slug":"eubie-blakes-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/02\/eubie-blakes-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubie Blake&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Eubie-Blake-Stamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Eubie-Blake-Stamp.jpg\" alt=\"Eubie Blake Stamp\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4439\" \/><\/a>Eubie Blake made himself even more famous well into his 90s when he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d known I was going to live this long, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have taken better care of myself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He died on February 12, 1983 at the age of 100 years and five days. More famous? Yes, he had been widely known for decades as a pianist, bandleader and composer. Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memories of You,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Just Wild About Harry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Charleston Rag\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were among a string his of hits that began with an early one for Sophie Tucker, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s All Your Fault.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>When ragtime made a comeback in the 1950s, so did Eubie, and the comeback lasted until he died. Here he is in Berlin in 1972 when he was a mere 89 year old, charming an audience with a medley of his best-known songs. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21SMdsr-i78?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Taking the birthday tribute a step further, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hear one of best of the dozens of versions of Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memories of You,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Clifford Brown with strings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdlaOPK83lA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Thank you for Eubie Blake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eubie Blake made himself even more famous well into his 90s when he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d known I was going to live this long, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have taken better care of myself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He died on February 12, 1983 at the age of 100 years and five days. More famous? Yes, he had been widely known for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}