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Aubrey Lyles (
1883,
Jackson, Tennessee -
28 July 1932,
New York City) was an
African American songwriter, lyricist, and
vaudeville performer, appearing with
F. E. Miller as
Miller and Lyles. He attended
Fisk University as a medical student, and met Miller there in 1906.
From 1906 to 1909, Miller and Lyles performed with the "Pekin Theater Stock Company" in
Chicago (the first black legitimate theater in the U.S.) with other stock company members such as
Harry Lawrence Freeman. Miller and Lyles then performed on the
vaudeville circuit for many years. In 1915, they appeared in Andre Charlot's production
Charlot's Revue in England, and upon their return to the U.S., appeared in
Darkydom with
Abbie Mitchell.
In 1921, Lyles and Miller wrote the book for
Shuffle Along, a
Broadway musical with music by
Eubie Blake and lyrics by
Noble Sissle. Also in 1921, Orlando Kellum made a
short film with Miller and Lyles performing their song "De Ducks" in Kellum's short-lived
Photokinema sound-on-disc process.
Miller and Lyles worked on another Broadway production was
Runnin' Wild (1923). Lyles broke up the act in 1929, but they reunited briefly in 1932, trying to put together a new show
Shuffle Along of 1933.
Lyles died on
28 July 1932 of pulmonary
tuberculosis.
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