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The heav­enly blisses
Of his kisses
Fill me with ecstasy.
He’s sweet just like choco­late candy
And just like honey from the bee.

I’m Just Wild About Harryfrom Shuf­fle Along.

In 1921, Broad­way jumped to East 63rd Street on New York’s West Side with the first inte­grated musi­cal to make it big on stage.

The hit num­ber was writ­ten by Eubie Blake and almost dropped from the show. He wrote it as a waltz, the direc­tor wanted a one-step, and pre­view audi­ences didn’t like it until the day an under­study was forced into the role, didn’t know the moves and impro­vised a rous­ing high-stepping solo that con­verted the lim­ited melody and sim­ple lyrics into a catchy show stopper.

Inad­ver­tent col­lab­o­ra­tion took some­thing des­tined for obscu­rity, or worse, and trans­formed it into a part of our cul­tural zeit­geist. That’s going on every moment and we can’t really know where, why or how.

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