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==Compositions== [[File:Victor22529A.jpg|thumb|''African Serenade'', a 1930 issue of a Nathaniel Shilkret composition recorded with the Victor orchestra]] He composed and arranged thousands of pieces. His best-known popular composition was "[[The Lonesome Road]]", first sung by co-writer [[Gene Austin]],<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and later by [[Jules Bledsoe]] (dubbing [[Stepin Fetchit]]) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of [[Show Boat (1929 film)|''Show Boat'']],<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and recorded by more than two hundred artists, including [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Bing Crosby]], [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Paul Robeson]]. He composed the theme song "Lady Divine" for the Academy Award-winning film ''[[The Divine Lady]]'' in 1929. He also composed the theme song "Some Sweet Day" for the film ''Children of the Ritz'' in the same year. His composition "[[Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time]]" sold almost two million copies of sheet music and was also recorded by over a hundred top artists, including Louis Armstrong, [[Skitch Henderson]], [[Guy Lombardo]], [[The London Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]], [[Mitch Miller]], [[Hugo Montenegro]], [[The Platters]], and [[Lawrence Welk]]. His [[Trombone Concerto (Shilkret)|Concerto for Trombone]] was premiered in 1945 by [[Tommy Dorsey]], playing with the New York Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of [[Leopold Stokowski]]. The piece was unavailable to the public from the mid-1950s until Scottish trombonist Bryan Free rescued it from obscurity at the beginning of the 21st century. It was re-premiered at Carnegie Hall by the New York Pops, under the direction of [[Skitch Henderson]], with [[Jim Pugh]] as soloist. Since its revival, the Concerto for Trombone has been performed about eighty times (with more performances scheduled) in the United States, Canada and several European countries.
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