Madelyn Sheppard

Madelyn Sheppard, John Barnes Wells, Helen Smith Woodruff, Annelu Burns (c. 1915) Madelyn Sheppard (died in 1990) was an American pianist, singer, and composer from Selma, Alabama. She frequently collaborated with lyricist Annelu Burns on spirituals and blues songs, including creating music for the theater and film industries. According to Ben West at the Library of Congress, the play "may well have been the first full-length Broadway musical authored entirely by women."

Sheppard died in 1990 and was buried at the New Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Alabama. Pickaninny Rose, Victor records, sung by Olive Kline and conducted by Josef Pasternack (Pickaninny) "Jibber Jabber Jazz" (1920) "Kalua Moon", music, words by Annelu Burns. Recorded by the South Sea Hawaiians on Cameo records in 1922. "Oh, Those Jazzing Toes" "Many Many Years Ago", music That Little Old Sweetheart of Mine, with Burns