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With text, photos, music and more, here is the source to learn about Al Jolson, the master showman of American theatre, whose career spanned fifty years of American Music history. If you have never heard Jolson, you are in for a treat, as many of these pages contain excerpts from some of his most popular or memorable songs.
May 19, 2010 · 12K. 2.7M views 13 years ago. The fantastic Al Jolson performing his signature tune 'Mammy' in the finale of the 1927 film 'The Jazz Singer' and yes, it's in blackface! Great performance....
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May 29, 2018 · Al Jolson was the foremost popular singer of the first three decades of the twentieth century. He flourished just before the era of radio and sound film, media that somewhat dented his popularity — though it was he who starred in The Jazz Singer, the first of the “ talkies.
Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American Jewish singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was called "the world's greatest entertainer”. [2] His singing style was "sentimental [and] melodramatic". This style made many songs popular. [3] .
Al Jolson | The Stars | Broadway: The American Musical | PBS. THE STARS. Performers. Al Jolson lived “The American Dream.” Born in Lithuania, Jolson rose through the ranks of vaudeville as...
Oct 7, 2017 · You ain’t heard nothin’ yet: the moment Al Jolson sounded the birth of the talkies. Ninety years ago, in October 1927, Warner Bros was facing ruin. It staked its future on a film called The...
