Al Jolson

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'Al Jolson' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

The Perfect Blue (1997)

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Ellis Island (1984)

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Parade of Stars (1983)

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Harlow (1965)

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One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels." She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood's "Platanum Blonde."

Keywords: actress, blonde, death-of-young-woman, director, dying-young, face-slap, family-relationships, hollywood-california, husband-wife-relationship, impotence

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Drama

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The Picture The World Has Been Waiting To See!

A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962)

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Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly.

Keywords: anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphic-sun, anthropomorphism, apple, asian-stereotype, asparagus, baker, banana, banjo, bank

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Sixty Years of Syncopation...FROM "RAGTIME" TO THE "BIG BEAT" (original one-sheet poster)
THE FLIP SIDE OF MODERN MUSIC! (original print ad-all caps)
A NEW TWIST ON THE OLD "RAGTIME" (original print ad-all caps)

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[zoom in on large mansion with extensive grounds, statuary, and monuments]::Ludwig Von Drake: Hello there! Welcome to my modest home!

Ludwig Von Drake: Around the turn of the century, I was a starving musician, and I was down to my last rutabaga. And anybody knows what that means: I was dressed in rags all the time. [sobs] Even my clothes was in rags. And I said to myself, "That's it! I will call my new syncopation... ragtime!"

Ludwig Von Drake: Popularity is fickle, and soon my ragtime was worn to shreds and the people shouted, "Ludwig, pay your bills!" No, that isn't what they said, that was my laundry man who said that.

The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)

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Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things.

Keywords: ambition, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, claim-in-title, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city

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John O'Hara's flaming portrait of the jazz age... and the guys and gals who made it Zing!

What's Up Doc? (1950)

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The Disassociated Press wants Bugs Bunny's life story. Got a pencil? "First," says Bugs, "I was born." He quickly learns he is different from the other children: he's a "rabbit in a human world." He grows up to accept repetitive chorus boy jobs in such Broadway revues as "Girl of the Golden Vest," "Wearing of the Grin" and "Rosie's Cheeks." His career hits the skids and he's living on a park bench before he's discovered by that great vaudeville star, Elmer Fudd. Their dual comedy act is a hit, which leads to film roles. Will Bugs Bunny ever have to look back?

Keywords: cartoon-rabbit, celebrity-caricature, hollywood, hungarian-rhapsody-by-liszt, looney-tunes, reference-to-bugs-bunny, reference-to-elmer-fudd, showbiz, surrealism, title-spoken-by-character

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Bugs Bunny: [narrating] After much consideration, I finally accepted an important part in the hit show, "Girl of the Golden Vest".::Bugs Bunny, Boys of the Chorus: [dissolve to Bugs and chorus boys entering stage] [singing] Oh, we are the boys of chorus / We hope you like our show / We know you're rooting for us / But now we have to go!::Bugs Bunny: [narrating] Then came, "Wearing of the Grin".::Bugs Bunny, Boys of the Chorus: [dissolve to Bugs and chorus boys entering stage] [singing] Oh, we are the boys of chorus / We hope you like our show / We know you're rooting for us / But now we have to go!::Bugs Bunny: [narrating] Then my big smash, "Rosie's Cheeks".::Bugs Bunny, Boys of the Chorus: [dissolve to Bugs and chorus boys entering stage] [singing] Oh, we are the boys of chorus / We hope you like our show / We know you're rooting for us / But now we have to go!

[first lines]::Bugs Bunny: [answering the phone] Eh, start talking. It's your nickel.

Bugs Bunny: [after reading the script of Life With Father] This'll never be a hit.

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

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Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof socialite Christine Gilbert.

Keywords: 1920s, art-gallery, ballet, bird's-eye-shot, black-maid, blackface, brain-tumor, burlesque, composer, concert

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The jubilant story of George Gershwin.

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George Gershwin: It's only with my music that I can prove my right to live. I must write!

Oscar Levant: I've got a date with my insomnia.

George Gershwin: I don't want to be just a concert pianist. I want to use the piano as a stepping stone!

Oscar Levant: If I had your talent, I'd be a pretty obnoxious fella. What do you call yourself?::George Gershwin: George Gershwin, it's my real name.::Oscar Levant: Mine's Oscar Levant. I'm thinking of changing it.

Max Dreyfus: [referring to "Porgy and Bess", which has just opened] You've made opera entertaining.

Julie Adams: What if this show is a flop?::George Gershwin: We'll do others. I haven't got time for flops.

Oscar Levant: Tell me, if you had it to do all over again, would you still fall in love with yourself?

Christine Gilbert: You can make up songs, George, but you can't make up lif.

Max Dreyfus: George, you can give America a voice.

Dreyfus receptionist: You're fresh!::Oscar Levant: Unfortunately you're not.

Hollywood Handicap (1938)

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A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. (The group is played by the "Original Sing Band," which uses their mouths to sound like musical instruments.) They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.

Keywords: african-american, announcer, auction, band, city-in-title, dancing, horse, horserace, movie-star, musician

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See a galaxy of stars at Santa Anita

Royal Cavalcade (1935)

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Through the use of both newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P production, modeled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the previous 25 years, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It depicts incidents starting with his coronation. and on through political problems,woman suffrage, strikes, trade expansion. World War One, and the depression, while also showing the changes in living style and progression.

Keywords: archive-footage, coronation, henry-v, king-of-england, labor-strike, newsreel-footage, politics, prime-minister, queen-elizabeth, queen-of-england

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Jolson, Al Filmography

Al Jolson Entertaining American Troops
2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock
2009, role: actor , character name: Jakie Rabinowitz
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
1929: The Great Crash
2009, role: actor
Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
Warner at War
2008, role: actor , character name: Jakie Rabinowitz
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure
2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
A Look at Al Jolson
2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007, role: actor , character name: Jakie Rabinowitz
Clarinet
2005, role: composer
Classified X
1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - Watches Fairbanks Do Jolson Impression
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Celluloid Closet
1995, role: actor , character name: Exclaims 'Boys Will Be Boys!'
Goodfellas
1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984, role: actor
Almonds and Raisins
1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
Showbiz Goes to War
1982, role: actor
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972
1980, role: actor , character name: Himself
Hooray for Hollywood
1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
Hollywood: The Golden Years
1961, role: actor , character name: Himself - in The Jazz Singer
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961, role: actor , character name: Himself
I Never Forget a Face
1956, role: actor , character name: Himself
Screen Snapshots: The Great Al Jolson
1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood
1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Ford 50th Anniversary Show
1953, role: actor
The Story of Will Rogers
1952, role: actor , character name: Al Jolson - clip from 'Rhapsody in Blue'
Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson
1952, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Naughty Twenties
1951, role: actor , character name: Himself
Purple Heart Diary
1951, role: actor , character name: Himself
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories
1951, role: actor , character name: Himself
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Famous Feet
1950, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
Fifty Years Before Your Eyes
1950, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Golden Twenties
1950, role: actor , character name: Himself
Jolson Sings Again
1949, role: actor , character name: Himself
Let's Go to the Movies
1949, role: actor
Screen Snapshots 9860: Hollywood Friars Honor George Jessel
1948, role: actor , character name: Himself - Speaker
Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards
1948, role: actor , character name: Himself
Screen Snapshots: Off the Air
1947, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Jolson Story
1946, role: miscellaneous crew
The Jolson Story
1946, role: actor , character name: Himself - in long shot of 'Swanee'
Okay for Sound
1946, role: actor , character name: Jack Robin
Rhapsody in Blue
1945, role: actor , character name: Al Jolson
Wilson
1944, role: actor , character name: Himself, at WWI rally
Take It or Leave It
1944, role: actor , character name: Himself: Clip from 'Rose of Washington Square'
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943, role: actor , character name: Himself
Show-Business at War
1943, role: actor , character name: Himself

Al Jolson sings April Showers & My Mammy

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Duration: 4:59
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: Jolson1950

Legendary entertainer Al Jolson performed at Soldier's Field, Chicago on 20th August 1949. A rare recording of Al Jolson performing live.

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Mammy - Al Jolson (Jazz Singer performance)

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Duration: 2:04
Updated: 06 Sep 2014
author: Xanadude192

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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"THE 'REAL AL JOLSON STORY' south bank show ~ Pt. 1 of 4 ~ 1986

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Duration: 14:19
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: ClassicPerformances2

For Part 2 please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2HuSgDzJc The 2nd. television (edited) documentary of 'The World's Greatest Entertainer' was original...

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The Anniversary Song - Al Jolson (Larry Parks - The Jolson Story) (1946)

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Duration: 2:59
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
author: Graeham Goble

In 1946, Saul Chaplin adapted Iosif Ivanovici's Romanian 'Waves of the Danube'; Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin wrote the lyrics.

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Funeral Of Al Jolson (1950)

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Duration: 1:42
Updated: 10 Aug 2014
author: British Pathé

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. American newsreel titles read: 'AL JOLSON - FINAL CURTAIN'. In Hollywood, Californi...

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Al Jolson----"About A Quarter To Nine"

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Duration: 6:07
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: Barry McNeish

From The 1935 Movie "Go Into Your Dance"

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Toot, Toot, Tootsie! - Al Jolson

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Duration: 2:06
Updated: 18 May 2010

Al Jolson performing the classic 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie!'. Fantastic performer, fantastic voice - I wish I could whistle like that! Taken from the 1927 film 'The Jazz Singer' credited as the first feature-length 'Talkie' film.

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"THE JOLSON STORY" AL JOLSON and LARRY PARKS HD all the way 1946

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Duration: 3:27
Updated: 23 Aug 2014
author: ClassicPerformances2

Although the first musical number that 'Jolie' fully sings in "The Jolson Story" is "Ma Blushin Rosie", Jolson never recorded it in the early teens, though h...

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Jolson Sings Again 1949 color by TECHNICOLOR full 490x360 25 fps 768kb V 192kb A

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Duration: 91:37
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
author: ChooDoob

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"THE REAL AL JOLSON STORY" south bank show ~ Part 2 of 3 ~ 1986

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Duration: 15:00
Updated: 01 Sep 2014
author: ClassicPerformances2

South Bank Show documentary "The Real Al Jolson Story" in part 2.

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"Camptown Races" sung by Al Jolson

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Duration: 2:09
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: Jolson1950

Al Jolson as E P Christie sings the "Camptown Races"

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Al Jolson - Brother can you spare a Dime

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Duration: 3:18
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: isthisnametook

Al Jolson sings the song that has become the anthem of the great depression. "Don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Why don't you re...

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Joe Franklin Remembers Al Jolson

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Duration: 6:02
Updated: 14 Jan 2015

This webisode from the webseries "Joe Franklin Remembers" is about Joe Franklin remembering Al Jolson. Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c. 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. At the peak of his career, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer". His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart and others; Dylan once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel". Broadway critic Gilbert Seldes compared him to the Greek god Pan, claiming that Jolson represented "the concentration of our national health and gaiety." In the 1930s he was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Although he is best remembered today as the star of the first 'talking picture', The Jazz Singer (1927), he later starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with The Jolson Story (1946). Larry Parks played Jolson, with the singer dubbing for Parks. The formula was repeated in the sequel, Jolson Sings Again (1949). In 1950 he again became the first star to entertain GIs on active service in the Korean War, performing 42 shows in 16 days. He died just weeks after returning to the U.S., partly owing to the physical exertion of performing. Defense Secretary George Marshall afterward awarded the Medal of Merit to Jolson's family. Joe Franklin is an American radio and television personality from New York City, Franklin is credited with hosting the first television talk show. The show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV and moved to WOR-TV from 1962 to 1993. Joe today can be found on Bloomberg Radio where he continues to interview stars. Joe has befriended, met and interviewed over 100,000 American stars. In the webseries "Joe Franklin Remembers" Joe tells us never before heard stories and facts about our favorite stars.

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Mammy scene in THE JOLSON STORY

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Duration: 3:28
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: RandomMovieClips

Jolson has a one of a kind vioce. Enjoy.

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Young Al Jolson - When You Were Sweet Sixteen

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Duration: 0:54
Updated: 27 Aug 2014
author: Jolson1950

Scotty Beckett as young Al Jolson sings (with the help of Rudy Wissler)

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Rudy Wissler sings as young Al Jolson

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Duration: 7:43
Updated: 30 Aug 2014
author: Jolson1950

The beautiful voice of Rudy Wissler was used in The Jolson Story as the voice of young Al Jolson. Scotty Beckett played the part of young Jolson and mimed to...

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Al Jolson "Rock-a-bye Your Baby"

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Duration: 3:27
Updated: 02 Jun 2011

This version of Al Jolson singing "Rockabye" is an out-take from 'The Jolson Story"

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Kol Nidre - Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer (1927)

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Duration: 2:54
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
author: Bigratus

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AL JOLSON in "A PLANTATION ACT" 1926

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Duration: 9:46
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: GreatPerformers1

A copy of A Plantation Act was found in the National Archives, mislabeled as a preview for The Jazz Singer, universally known as 'the first talkie' produced ...

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Larry Parks As Al Jolson - Sonny Boy (Personally Remastered Sound and Widescreen)

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Duration: 2:55
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: JolsonVideos

Please subscribe! Thanks! Here is a wonderful scene from the classic 1949 film, "Jolson Sings Again", with the amazing Larry Parks as legendary singer, Al Jo...

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Al Jolson - Swanee (Rhapsody in Blue 1945)

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Duration: 2:49
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: John1948OneA

Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson on May 26, 1886, and his family left Russia when he was a child. The son of a cantor, he first sang in a synagogue. His first sho...

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Al Jolson sings in the 1st-ever Talkie "The Jazz Singer" .mpg

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Duration: 4:17
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
author: Nandan Sharma

It was Warner Bros that took the 1st leap into the all-talking movie with the Jazz Singer in 1927. Though there are instances of sound being used earlier thi...

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Blue Skies - Al Jolson

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Duration: 2:44
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: Xanadude192

Al Jolson performing 'Blue Skies' (written by Irving Berlin) in the 1927 film 'The Jazz Singer' - credited as the first feature-length 'talkie'. This clip is...

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Al Jolson sings Mammy (I'll Sing About You) - Live On Set.

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Duration: 3:20
Updated: 24 May 2009

Live on set. From his film 'Go Into Your Dance' Al Jolson sings the very catchy "Mammy, I'll Sing About You"

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AL JOLSON LIVE on 'The Barry Gray Show' ~ "You Made Me Love You"/ "Swanee" 1946

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Duration: 6:10
Updated: 10 Nov 2011

Al Jolson came to The Barry Gray Show early one morning a few weeks after the opening of "The Jolson Story" and along with his pianists Harry Akst, performed and joked with Barry and some celebrity guests all live till the early hours of the morning

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AL JOLSON sings "LET ME SING AND I'M HAPPY" 1930 Live

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Duration: 2:32
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
author: GreatPerformers1

Watch Jolie sing "The Night Boat To Albany" at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqza8lg-sek "AL JOLSON in "MAMMY" 1930 vitaphone production...original restore...

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Al Jolson - California Here I Come.mpg

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Duration: 1:31
Updated: 27 Jul 2014
author: diarci

In 1949, Al Jolson made a personal appearance tour to promote "Jolson Sings Again," the sequel to "The Jolson Story." Here he appears live at Soldiers Field ...

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Al Jolson - Sonny Boy

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Duration: 3:17
Updated: 30 Aug 2014
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Al Jolson Sonny Boy.

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Al Jolson April Showers

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Duration: 1:54
Updated: 07 Aug 2014
author: diarci

Live performance. Another number from the 1949 Chicago Soldiers Field concert which was part of a personal appearance tour for "Jolson Sings Again." I invite...

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Al Jolson - Used To You.mpg

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Duration: 2:42
Updated: 21 Jul 2010

From the 1929 film, "Say It With Songs." Yes, that's little Davy (Sonny Boy) Lee back again as Al's adoring son. As with most early sound films, this was shot live - no pre-recording or lip-synching. Jolson inserted whistling choruses in many of his songs for most of his career. I invite you to my website: www.diarci.com for more.

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SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES by AL JOLSON

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Duration: 2:11
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
author: AlanPaladin

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES by AL JOLSON LIVE PERFORMANCE.

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AL JOLSON ~ "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" ~ live 1933

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Duration: 3:14
Updated: 20 Jun 2014
author: ClassicPerformances2

One of the only recordings available that Jolson made of this wonderful Irving Berlin ballad from his early years. He introduced the song originally in 1916.

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SWANEE "How I Love Ya" (Al Jolson) sung by Sam Harris, Live in Concert!

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Duration: 2:38
Updated: 18 Nov 2009

MP3 ► http://SamTunes.NET ► Facebook ► http://fb.me/SamFans Twitter ► http://twitter.com/SamHarris Web Site ► http://SamHarris.com Subscribe! ► http://SamTube.com Swanee (How I Love Ya) NOTE: Sam Harris is not impersonating AL JOLSON, he is merely singing his interpretation of a song sung by Al Jolson, among many others. See another clip from this concert "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody)" found at ► http://bit.ly/Rock-A-Bye Forward this link to friends! ► http://bit.ly/Swanee SWANEE (George Gershwin/Irving Caesar) Lyrics: I've been away from you along time I never thought I'd miss 'ya so Somehow I feel, your love is real Near you I wanna be. The Birds are singing it is songtime The banjos strumming soft and low I know that you yearn for me to swanee you're calling me Chorus Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya My dear old swanee. I'd give the world to be among the folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for me, praying for me down by the swanne. The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that swanee shore I love the old folks at home Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya My dear old swanee. I'd give the world to be among the folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for me, praying for me down by the swanee. The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that swanee shore. Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and actor. According to PBS, he is considered the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America". His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer. His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel". In the 1930s he was America's most famous and highest paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Yet he's best remembered today for his leading role in the first (full length) talking movie ever made, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. He starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with the 1946 Oscar-winning biographical film, The Jolson Story. Larry Parks played Jolson with the songs dubbed in with Jolsons real voice. A sequel, Jolson Sings Again, was released in 1949, and was nominated for three Oscars. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jolson became the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II, and again in 1950 became the first star to perform for GIs in Korea, doing 42 shows in 16 days. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, "Jolson was to jazz, blues, and ragtime what Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll". Being the first popular singer to make a spectacular "event" out of singing a song, he became a rock star before the dawn of rock music. His specialty was building stage runways extending out into the audience. He would run up and down the runway and across the stage, "teasing, cajoling, and thrilling the audience", often stopping to sing to individual members, all the while the "perspiration would be pouring from his face, and the entire audience would get caught up in the ecstasy of his performance". He enjoyed performing in blackface makeup a theatrical convention in the early 20th century. With his unique and dynamic style of singing black music, like jazz and blues, he was later credited with single-handedly introducing African-American music to white audiences. As early as 1911 he became known for fighting against anti-black discrimination on Broadway. Jolson's well-known theatrics and his promotion of equality on Broadway helped pave the way for many black performers, playwrights, and songwriters, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Ethel Waters. WEB SITE ► http://SamHarris.com YOUTUBE CHANNEL ► http://SamTube.com

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Al Jolson Mammy.mpg

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Updated: 28 Jun 2014
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Live performance from the Soldiers Field, Chicago 1949 personal appearance tour for "Jolson Sings Again. He ws 63 years old and had first sung "Mammy" almost...

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"Oh Susanna" as performed by Al Jolson

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Updated: 05 Sep 2014
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Al Jolson sings the Stephen Foster song "Oh Susanna"

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Al Jolson sings Swanee - HQ Widescreen

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Duration: 0:48
Updated: 11 Jul 2014
author: 2havago

AL JOLSON singing SWANEE from The Jolson Story via YouTube HQ Widescreen. The closest thing to seeing a live Jolson performance.

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Al Jolson - Beautiful Dreamer (1950)

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Duration: 2:50
Updated: 29 Aug 2014
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One of Jolson's last recordings, recorded July 13, 1950 for an album of Stephen Foster songs. This song has been recorded by hundreds of artists over the yea...

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The Real Al Jolson Live in the West End.avi

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Duration: 10:32
Updated: 08 Dec 2010

The West End of Brundall, that is, this is a home video of the late great Bert Marriott performing his impersonation of Al Jolson, on his birthday, he was in his late 70's at the time, what a trooper, sock it to em' Bert, don't miss mami at the end Blacked up!

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Mammy - Swanee - Al Jolson Medley - The Great Rubber Band - Live in Lubbock 1980

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Duration: 4:23
Updated: 11 Dec 2010

Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 -- October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer". Al Jolson is possibly best remembered today for his numerous recordings and for starring in The Jazz Singer (1927), the first nationally distributed feature film that included dialogue sequences as well as music and sound effects. This Great Rubber Band medley of Jolson hits includes George Gershwin's first hit recording, "Swanee" and another Jolson song, "My Mammy". Timmy loved to jump up onto tabletops and catch tamborines thrown from the stage. In this medley he gets to do both. - Recorded Live in Lubbock, TX January 1980.

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The Jazz Singer 1927 Full HD * Good Al Jolson Drama - Musical Film

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Updated: 01 Jul 2015

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie star Al Jolson performs six songs. The film is based on The Day of Atonement, a play by Samson Raphaelson.

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In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried - Amy Hempel - Literary Roadhouse Ep 23

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Duration: 62:11
Updated: 07 Jul 2015

Our first podcast will feature a discussion of "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin. The podcast is available in a polished audio format on the website. www.literaryroadhouse.com Twitter: @litroadhouse https://twitter.com/litroadhouse Maya Goode www.mayagoode.com Twitter: @quotidianlight Anais Concepcion http://www.anaisconcepcion.com/ Twitter: @anaisconce Gerald Hornsby http://gerald-hornsby.com/blog/ Twitter: @authorgerald Kenechi Okolo https://dontbeanant.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @dontbeanant

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KRAFT MUSIC HALL with - AL JOLSON - DOROTHY KIRSTEN = OSCAR LEVANT 19 05 1949

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Duration: 29:57
Updated: 22 Feb 2014
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Lux Radio Theater - Burlesque with Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler

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Duration: 58:15
Updated: 04 Jan 2015

Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934-35); CBS (1935-54) and NBC (1954-55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30pm, October 14, 1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in a full-hour adaptation of the 1922–24 Broadway production by Austin Strong. The host was the show's fictional producer, Douglass Garrick (portrayed by John Anthony). Doris Dagmar played another fictional character, Peggy Winthrop, who delivered the Lux commercials. Each show featured a scripted session with Garrick talking to the lead actors. Anthony appeared as Garrick from the premiere 1934 episode until June 30, 1935. Garrick was portrayed by Albert Hayes from July 29, 1935 to May 25, 1936, when the show moved to the West Coast. Cecil B. DeMille took over as the host on June 1, 1936, continuing until January 22, 1945. Greetings from Hollywood, Ladies And Gentleman...... Tonight's Broadcast: Burlesque With: Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler Original Air Date: June 15, 1936 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Kraft Music Hall Al Jolson Easter 1949

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Duration: 30:08
Updated: 03 Sep 2014
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Kraft Music Hall Al Jolson With Groucho Marx. This Show Al Jolson Sings In You Easter Bonnet. Original Air Date Was 04/07/1949.

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Al Jolson, on a Sparton Model 62, 1933 Vintage Tube Radio

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Duration: 22:08
Updated: 20 Jun 2014
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This is a different, for me, video, more about the artist, than the radio. Something I thought I'd try. It's longer than most of my video's, I may have to ad...

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Al Jolson Christmas 1948

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Duration: 30:04
Updated: 21 Mar 2014
author: OTR HALLOWEENHOLIDAZE

Al Jolson Kraft Music Hall With Kraft Choral Club Christmas Show 1948. Original Air Date Was 12/23/1948.

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Al Jolson Radio Program Of January 5, 1943 (feat. Monte Woolley, Parkyakarkus, Carol Bruce,...

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Duration: 24:25
Updated: 20 Nov 2014

Al Jolson Radio Program Of January 5, 1943 (feat. Monte Woolley, Parkyakarkus, Carol Bruce, Fred Uttal) Fred Uttal Monte Woolley Carol Bruce Parkyakarkus Al Jolson ℗ 2012 Hallmark Released on: 2010-12-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Al Jolson and the Jews

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Duration: 72:36
Updated: 31 Aug 2014
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RINSO PROGRAM 06 04 1937 with AL JOLSON= MARTHA RAYE others

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Duration: 29:11
Updated: 20 Jul 2014
author: danny sharples

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AL JOLSON 06 04 1937 - LIFEBUOY SHOW with MARTHA RAYE

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Updated: 30 Jul 2014
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RESTORED BROADCAST THE LIFEBUOY SHOW WITH MARTHA RAYE AS GUEST. SOUND IS EXCELLENT - GREAT SHOW.... AL TELLS HIS LIFE STORY IN SONG.

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Al Jolson Show at the Yountville CA Veterans Home 4/15/15

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Updated: 28 Jun 2015

Here is the "official video" as produced by the Yountville Veterans' Home in-house TV station.

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2015-02-08 Weston Philharmonic Society - Al Jolson Humanitarian Award

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Updated: 04 Mar 2015

2/8/2015 Weston Philharmonic Society - Al Jolson Humanitarian Award presented to Connie Francis. Event held at the Weston Hills Country Club, Weston, FL

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KMH Al Jolson & Margaret Whiting 1949

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Duration: 31:06
Updated: 13 Feb 2014
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Kraft Music Hall With Al Jolson & Guest Jack Kirkwood & Margaret Whiting. Original Air Date Was 04/14/1949. This was during the second (and final) season of ...

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Big mix - 1 hour - Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Al Jolson, Tony Bennett

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Duration: 59:39
Updated: 07 Aug 2015

Big mix - 1 hour - Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Al Jolson, Tony Bennett. Mega mix. Only the best! — Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzLr4CFBEj8KNSFGOUzrqFw?sub_confirmation=1 Listen more http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9TQ9hmTNNX3nKjk9CZOdlZoEUbV8k6DT

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Kraft Music Hall Al Jolson Halloween 1947

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Updated: 28 Feb 2012

Kraft Music Hall With Al Jolson & William Bendix Halloween Show. Original Air Date Was 10/30/1947.

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KRAFT MUSIC HALL 03 06 1948 EZIO PINZA & AL JOLSON

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Duration: 29:50
Updated: 23 Mar 2014
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Al Jolson New Years 1948

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Duration: 28:21
Updated: 24 Aug 2014
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Kraft Music Hall With Al Jolson & Guest Madeleine Carroll From New Years. Original Air Date Was 01/01/1948.

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Bob Hope Show guest Al Jolson OTR

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Duration: 30:07
Updated: 19 Aug 2014
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Bob Hope Show guest Al Jolson OTR Check us out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OldTimeRadiooutlaw radio show. '' from LIKE,COMMENT, AND SHARE Subscri...

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Al Jolson Radio Program Of January 5, 1943

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Updated: 20 Nov 2014

Al Jolson Radio Program Of January 5, 1943 Al Jolson ℗ 2012 Hallmark Released on: 2011-10-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Episode 18 - Sophie Tucker, Vic and Sade, Al Jolson (1956-10-24)

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Updated: 27 Nov 2014

Episode 18 - Sophie Tucker, Vic and Sade, Al Jolson (1956-10-24) Ed Herlihy ℗ FQ Old Time Radio Shows Released on: 2014-11-11 Composer: Ed Herlihy Lyricist: Ed Herlihy Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Episode 35 - Helen Hayes, Perry Como, Al Jolson (1957-02-20)

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Updated: 27 Nov 2014

Episode 35 - Helen Hayes, Perry Como, Al Jolson (1957-02-20) Ed Herlihy ℗ FQ Old Time Radio Shows Released on: 2014-11-11 Composer: Ed Herlihy Lyricist: Ed Herlihy Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Joey Adams Talks About Al Jolson George Bettinger Show Interview 1985

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Updated: 16 Nov 2010

George Bettinger had noted comic, friar and writer Joey Adams on his show in 1985. Here the one and only Joey tells a story about meeting the late great Al Jolson.

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Al Jolson & Larry Parks Sing Together. A Tour de Force.

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Duration: 5:22
Updated: 19 Aug 2014
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Al Jolson and Larry Parks rehearsing "Ma Blushin' Rosie" for 'The Jolson Story'.

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"THE REAL AL JOLSON STORY" south bank show ~ Part 3 of 4 ~ 1986

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Updated: 04 Sep 2014
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PART 3 of The South Bank Show British documentary of Al Jolson. Interviews with Ruby Keeler and Evelyn Keys.

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Flint Michigan radio interview for an evening with Al Jolson 1978 Starring Clive Baldwin

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Duration: 9:36
Updated: 22 May 2014
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This was an interview Clive did for a local radio station in Flint Mich. Where he was performing at the Whiting Auditorium in "An Evening with Al Jolson" wit...

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Trailer to "Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer"

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Duration: 2:04
Updated: 02 Jun 2013
author: Bessie1991

Trailer to a documentary about Al Jolson and the first talking picture "The Jazz Singer". Runtime: 85 min., directed by Andrea Oberheiden, feat. interviews w...

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RUDY WISSLER and SCOTTY BECKETT ~ "THE JOLSON STORY" 1946

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Duration: 8:06
Updated: 01 Sep 2014
author: ClassicPerformances2

Viewers not familiar with Al Jolson might be wondering who Rudy Wissler was not to mention Scotty Beckett; both seen here in excerpts from the beginning of t...

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International Al Jolson Convention Phoenix 2009

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Duration: 0:24
Updated: 15 Jun 2014
author: GROPIUS2570

Excerpt from "AL JOLSON — The Early Shubert Years"—Arthur Klein —Interview with Al Jolson's first professional manager. Arthur Klein secured Jolson's first b...

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Al Jolson sings My Mammy - Larry Parks Tribute - His wife Betty Garrett died on Feb 12 2011 aged 91.

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Duration: 3:16
Updated: 05 Sep 2014
author: 2havago

Al Jolson sings My Mammy in this tribute to Larry Parks. Larry Parks' widow Betty Garrett died on the morning of Saturday 12th of February 2011, aged 91.

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Al Jolson AZA #317 RC Video 2011- Perfect Trip To Israel

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Updated: 05 Dec 2011

"Welcome to the Cardinal Principles" A story about an "off track" news anchor who has an interview regarding religious identity with someone who is on their "perfect trip to Israel." The anchor has a revelation about who he is, and figures out how to get himself back on track by incorporating the cardinal principles into his life a little bit more.

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The Music of Al Jolson - Robert Wolfe

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Duration: 9:10
Updated: 02 Sep 2014
author: Cannock Chase Organ Club

Robert Wolfe performs a selection of music made famous by Al Jolson on the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ of the Thursford Collection, Norfolk UK. The music ...

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Al Jolson sings Easter Parade - Judy Garland tribute

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Duration: 2:55
Updated: 04 Sep 2014
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A radio (Kraft Music Hall) transcription of Al Jolson Singing Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade" uploaded in tribute to Judy Garland ... With the Orchestra of L...

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Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler - About A Quarter To Nine..

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Duration: 2:08
Updated: 23 Apr 2014
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All Jolson from 1935.

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Al Jolson - My Old Kentucky Home

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Duration: 3:22
Updated: 21 Aug 2014
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A Note: He left out the word darkies, that was in the original Foster lyrics. Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 -- October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian born singer, come...

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Al Jolson - Is It True What They Say About Dixie

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Updated: 09 Jul 2013
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Al Jolson comes back to show business after his wife left him. From Jolson Sings Again.

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Topless Femen protesters storm stage at Muslim conference on women

The Independent

14 Sep 2015

Two topless feminist protesters from Femen have stormed the stage of a conference discussing women in Islam. A video of the incident appears to show one of the activists being kicked by a man as she is hauled off stage at the event in France. The two women are from the Femen activist group, whose members are known for protesting topless with writing across their chest ... The so-far unnamed women are believed to be aged 25 and 31 ... --> ... ....

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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 22, 2015, to mark the 74th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

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Russia trying to set up base in Syria, U.S. says

CNN

15 Sep 2015

Latakia, a port city on Syria's Mediterranean coast, is in an area controlled by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a close Russian ally ... They say the possibilities range from preparations to attack positions of the militant group ISIS to the more likely scenario of attacking moderate rebel forces who are fighting al-Assad's military ... Those rebels, though, are also trying to drive out al-Assad, whom U.S....

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Chris Hardwick arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Jurassic World" at the Dolby Theatre on Tuesday, June 9, 2015.

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Jurassic World tops list of most movie mistakes for 2015

The Guardian

15 Sep 2015

In the blockbuster dinosaur sequel a mobile phone magically fixes itself and Chris Pratt talks to Bryce Dallas Howard without moving his lips. @BenChildGeek. Dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic World features more errors than any other film released so far in 2015, according to the Movie Mistakes website ... Fury Road, with eight mistakes each ... Twitter ... ....

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A history of the Wallabies at the Rugby World Cup: part I

The Guardian

14 Sep 2015

This content is sponsored ... Twitter ... Before the Grand Slam tour, Jones arranged for the Wallabies to have professional singing lessons, a move which did not go down well with some of the unreconstructed, and possibly unmusical, types in the forward pack like Queensland prop Stan Pilecki; on the tour of New Zealand in 1986, Jones entertained the squad at a hotel in Westport one night with a blackface rendition of Al Jolson’s “Mammy” ... ....

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AM radio has potential to live on

LA Daily News

09 Sep 2015

And then it hit me. Oldies are not dead, they are just in hibernation. Yes, I know the arguments. I’ve made some of them ... Imagine listening to KRTH (101.1 FM) in 1972 — the year the station launched as an automated oldies station — and hearing “My Buddy” by Henry Burr, Edie Cantor’s “Oh, Is She Dumb” or “April Showers” by Al Jolson, which were all top hits in 1922....

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Causing Quite a "Brouhaha" Over The Kickback and Newcomer Soren Bryce

Huffington Post

09 Sep 2015

All photos and videos by Shoot Me Peter. The Kickback are new to the music game even though they've been playing it for years. If that last sentence makes sense, congratulations. Anyway, the band will unleash its full-length debut,. Sorry All Over The Place, Sept ... It's no wonder they've received buzz from Rolling Stone and the Chicago Tribune to name a few ... The rest were Al Jolson, Broadway tunes I couldn't connect to, and Judy Garland ... ....

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Rosa Rio’s Career as one of the Country’s Premier Theater Organists

Cinema Treasures

08 Sep 2015

The New York Times featured this wonderful image of Rosa Rio, shown in 1934 at the Fox Theater in Brooklyn, where she had performed as the house organist. Ms ... On Oct ... Al Jolson was talking, and the very sound of him, she knew, would put her out of business ... Read the NY Times article here ... ABOUT THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA....

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Kol Nidre and the white fire of the Iran discourse

Sun Sentinel

08 Sep 2015

The High Holidays are just around the corner. They reach their crescendo with Yom Kippur's Kol Nidre prayer, made famous by Al Jolson and Neil Diamond in "The Jazz Singer" movies. The literal meaning of Kol Nidre is "all vows." More broadly, the prayer deals with the importance of words in shaping our lives, setting the tone for who we are — what we represent ... Not true. Words can hurt; words can harm ... 0 ... ....

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“Hamilton: the Musical:” Black Actors Dress Up like Slave Traders…and It’s Not Halloween

CounterPunch

21 Aug 2015

Establishment historians write best sellers in which some of the cruel actions of the Founding Fathers are smudged over if not ignored altogether. They’re guilty of a cover-up. This is the case with Alexander Hamilton whose life has been scrubbed with a kind of historical Ajax until it sparkles. His reputation has been shored up as an abolitionist and someone who was opposed to slavery. Not true ... Al Jolson without the black face ... ....

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Double standard, in journalism and in society

St Louis Post-Dispatch

14 Aug 2015

Lakeeta Pool is depicted in the Post-Dispatch wearing white face. It's performing art (dance) and front section news (Aug. 9). Al Jolson and Amos & Andy were white men wearing black face. … ... ....

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Exhibition recounts the GI 'invasion' of Ulster

Belfast Telegraph

12 Aug 2015

Oversexed, overpaid and over here... and the story of American soldiers in Northern Ireland is not over yet. A major first-of-its-kind exhibition opens this weekend in Lurgan at the former war headquarters of the US Army. The permanent display will be located in the basement of Brownlow House, where some original Second World War graffiti can still be seen ... "It's even rumoured that Al Jolson came to sing for the troops." ... From the web ... ....

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Chat's entertainment: The creeping power of the TV talk show goof around

IMDb

11 Aug 2015

... Hall, exchange five minutes of patter with crooning compere Bing Crosby or Al Jolson and endure the announcer’s periodic interjections on the simple joys of Philadelphia cream cheese....

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Cilla Black: Singer who was signed by Brian Epstein and went on to forge a ...

The Independent

02 Aug 2015

The singer and television presenter Cilla Black embodied the Sixties spirit of working-class people with talent suddenly having the opportunity to prove it. In the words of Twiggy, it was “a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things” ... Her parents were frustrated performers ... It was on one such occasion that their five-year-old daughter joined in and gave a rendition of Al Jolson’s “Mammy” ... I knew it couldn’t work” ... Read more....

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'Sophie Mania' Returns

Huffington Post

29 Jul 2015

"The Last Of The Red-Hot Mamas" Sophie Tucker was known as the "female Al Jolson" and she paved the way for such icons as Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Midler, Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, even Amy Schumer ... And Mae West was an early mentee of Mae West ... Presidents, King George VI,young Queen Elizabeth, Charlie Chaplin, J.Edgar Hoover, Al Jolson, Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, and every other notable of her era." ... ....

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Al Jolson was no racist

Baltimore Sun

25 Jul 2015

Contained in the article regarding the fundraiser for the police officers involved in the Freddie Gray case is a description of Al Jolson by the Fraternal Order of Police as an "iconic racist figure." Nothing could be further from the truth and such an egregious slander should not have been allowed... ....

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Summertime: Pure Gershwin = Pure Entertainment at the Lark Theater

The Examiner

24 Jul 2015

I live in Larkspur, population 12,000 or so, about ten minutes walk from a historic downtown that’s only four blocks long ... It’s been humming ever since ... Oh, and a few movies, too ... Aida ... After a reception in the lobby comes a screening of Rhapsody in Blue, the 1945 Gershwin bio-pic starring Robert Alda as George, Herbert Rudley as his lyricist brother, Ira, and people like Paul Whiteman, Al Jolson, and Oscar Levant as themselves ... Aug ... ....

Top Al Jolson, Bye Bye Blackbird

Pack up all my cares and woe,
Here I go singing low:
Bye bye, blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet, so is she.
Bye bye, blackbird.
No-one here can love or understand me.
Oh, those hard-luck stories they all hand me.
Make my bed and light the light,
I'll arrive late tonight.

Top Al Jolson, I'm Sitting On Top Of The World

I'm Sitting on top of the world
I'm rolling along
Yes rolling along
And I'm Quitting the blues of the world
I'm Singing a song
Yes Sing a song
Glory hallelujah, I just phoned the parson
Hey, par, get ready to call
Just like humpty dumpty,
I'm going to fall
I'm Sitting on top of the world
I'm rolling along
Yes rolling along
Don't want any millions
I'm getting my share
I've only got one suit (one suit)
That's all I can wear
A bundle of money won't make you feel gay
A sweet little honey is making me say
I'm Sitting on top of the world
I'm rolling along
Yes rolling along
And I'm Quitting the blues of the world
I'm Singing a song
Yes Sing a song
Glory hallelujah, I just phoned the parson
Hey, par, get ready to call
Just like humpty dumpty,
I'm going to fall
I'm Sitting on top of the world
I'm rolling along

Top Al Jolson, Dirty Hands Dirty Face

Wonderful pals are always hard to find
Some folks have one, some folks have none
And I was alone for years, but fate was kind
And in the end, sent me a friend
Although he's not much higher than my knee
Still he's the greatest thing on earth for me
Dirty hands! dirty face!
Leads the neighbors a chase
But his smile is as cute as can be
Making noise, breaking toys
He's always fighting the boys
But his eyes, they're a vision to see
And when my work is done
Coming home from the setting sun
At the gate he will start to run
And then I'll kiss my boy
Dirty hands! dirty face!
Little devil, that's what they say
But to me he's an angel of joy
Dirty hands! dirty face!
Leads the neighbors a chase
But his smile, his little smile, is as cute as can be
Making noise, breaking toys
He's always fighting the boys
But his eyes, they're his Mother's
And they're a vision to me
And when my work is done
Coming home, coming home to the setting sun
From the gate he'll start to run
And then, ohh, I'll kiss my boy
Dirty hands! dirty face!
Little devil, that's what they say

Top Al Jolson, Liza

Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
Al Jolson
Words by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn
Music by George Gershwin
A # 9 hit in 1929 for Al Jolson
Originally from the Broadway show "Show Girl" where it was sung by Nick Lucas
and danced by Ruby Keeler.
It later was sung by Jolson, dubbing for Larry Parks, in the 1946 film "the Jolson
Story."
Liza, Liza, skies are gray
But if you smile on me, all the clouds will roll away.
Liza, Liza, don't delay
Come keep me company, and the clouds will roll away.
See the honey moon a-shinnig down
We could make a date with Parson Brown.
So, Liza, Liza name the day
When you'll belong to me, and the clouds will roll away.
cgorman@buncombe.main.nc.us

Top Al Jolson, Let Me Sing And I'm Happy

What care I who makes the laws of a nation
Let those who will take care of its rights and wrongs.
What care I who care for the world's affairs
As long as I can sing this popular song
Let me sing a funny song with crazy words that roll along
And if my song can start you laughing, I'm happy, so happy.
Let me sing a sad refrain of broken hearts that love in vain
And if my song can start you crying, I'm happy
Let me croon a low down blues to lift you out of your seat
If my song can reach your shoes
And start you tapping your feet, I'm happy.
Let me sing of Dixie's charms
Cotton fields and mammy's arms
And if my song can make you homesick, I'm happy,
I'm happy.
Let me sing of Dixie's charms
Cotton fields and mammy's arms

Top Al Jolson, California

When the wintry winds starts blowing
And the snow is starting in the fall
Then my eyes went westward knowing
That's the place that i love best of all
California i've been blue
Since i've been away from you
I can't wait 'till i get blowing
Even now i'm starting in a call
California, Here I Come
Right back where I started from
where bowers of flowers
bloom in the spring
each morning at dawning
birdies sing at everything
a sunkissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
that's why I can hardly wait
open up that golden gate
California, Here I Come
California, Here I Come (yeaaaaaah!)
Right back where I started from
where bowers of flowers
bloom in the spring
each morning at dawning
birdies sing at everything
a sunkissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
that's why I can hardly wait (come on!)
open up (open up! open up!) that golden gate
California, Here I Come

Top Al Jolson, Toot toot Tootsie

Yesterday I heard a lover sigh
Goodbye, oh me oh my!
Seven times he got aboard his train
And seven times he hurried back to give his love again and tell her:
Toot Toot Tootsie goodbye.
Toot Toot Tootsie, don't cry.
That little choo-choo train
That takes me
Away from you, no words can tell how sad it makes me.
Kiss me Tootsie and then,
Oh baby, do it over again.
Watch for the mail;
I'll never fail,
And if you don't get a letter then you'll know I'm in jail.
Toot Toot Tootsie, don't cry.
Toot Toot Tootsie, goodbye!
When somebody says goodbye to me
Oh I'm sad as can be.
Not so with this loving Romeo.
He seems to take a lot of pleasure saying goodbye to his treasure.
Toot Toot Tootsie, bye bye bye bye bye!
Toot Toot Tootsie, don't cry.
The little choo-choo, the little train
That takes, that takes me
Away from you, no words can tell how sad it makes me.
Kiss me, kiss me Tootsie and then
Oh, do it over again.
And though I yearn
You need to learn
I'll keep playing Solitaire until I return.
Don't cry tootsie, don't cry!
Toot Toot Tootsie, goodbye! s

Top Al Jolson, Pasadena

Oh you railway station!
Oh you Pullman Train!
There's my reservation
For my destination,
Far beyond the western plains
To see my home in Pasadena.
Home where grass is greener
Where honeybees
Hum melodies
And orange trees scent the breeze.
I'm gonna see a home-sweet-homer
And there I'll settle down
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena town.
Where honeybees hum melodies
And orange trees scent the breeze.
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena town.
(whistling)
Home home home home in Pasadena,
Home home home home where grass is greener.
Where the little bees, they hum melodies,
And orange trees scent the breeze.
I'm gonna be a home-sweet-homer
And right there I'll settle down
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena town.

Top Al Jolson, When You Were Sweet Sixteen

When first I saw the lovelight in your eye
I dreamt the world had not but joy for me.
And even though we drifted far apart
I never dream, but when I dream of thee.
I love you as I never loved before
Since first I met you on the village green.
Come to me or my dream of love is over.
I love you as I loved you
When you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen.
Come to me or my dream of love is over.
I love you as I loved you
When you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen.

Top Al Jolson, Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)

Everything is lovely
When you start to roam;
The birds are singin', the day that you stray,
But later, when you are further away,
Things won't seem so lovely
When you're all alone;
Here's what you'll keep saying
When you're far from home:
Mammy,
Mammy,
The sun shines east, the sun shines west,
I know where the sun shines best--
Mammy,
My little mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
I'm comin',
Sorry that I made you wait.
I'm comin',
Hope and trust that I'm not late, oh oh oh
Mammy,
My little Mammy,
I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy! Oh oh oh...
(SPOKEN) Mammy...
My little Mammy.
The sun shines east-- the sun shines west--
I know where-- the sun shines best!
It's on my Mammy I'm talkin' about, nobody else's!
(SUNG) My little Mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
(SPOKEN) Mammy-- Mammy, I'm comin'--
I'm so sorry that I made you wait!
Mammy-- Mammy, I'm comin'!
Oh God, I hope I'm not late!
Look at me, Mammy! Don't you know me?
I'm your little baby!
(SUNG) I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy!

Top Al Jolson, Here In My Heart

Here in my heart I'm alone, I'm so lonely
Here in my heart I just yearn for you only
Here in my arms I long to hold you
Hold you so near, ever close to my heart
So, darling
Say that you care, take these arms I give gladly
Surely you know I need your love so badly
Here is my heart, my life, and my all, dear
Please be mine and stay here in my heart
REPEAT second verse

Top Al Jolson, My Mammy

Top Al Jolson, Ma Blushin' Rosie

There's a little bunch of sweetness,
That I long to call my bride.
And believe me I'm not happy,
Lest my baby's by my side.
Her baptismal name was Rosie,
But she put's the rose to shame.
And almost every night,
you'll here me call her name.
Chorus
Rosie, you are my posie,
you are my hearts bouquet,
Come out here in the moonlight,
There's something sweet love,
I wanna say.
Your honey boy I'm waiting,
Those ruby lips to greet
Don't be so captivating
My blushing rosie
My Posie sweet.
Rosie, you are my posie,
You are, my hearts bouquet
Come out, here in the moonlight
There's something sweet love.
I'm gonna sing about my baby,
Your honey, your boy I'm waiting
Those rubies, those lips to greet
Don't be so captivating,
My blushin rosie,

Top Al Jolson, California Here I Come

California, here I come
Right back where I started from
Where bowers of flowers
Bloom in the spring
Each morning, at dawning
Birdies sing and everything
A sun-kissed miss said, "Don't be late"
That's why I can hardly wait
Open up that Golden Gate

Top Al Jolson, April Showers

Life is not a highway strewn with flowers,
Still it holds a goodly share of bliss,
When the sun gives way to April showers,
Here's a thought that we should never miss:
Though April showers
May come your way,
They bring the flowers
That bloom in May;
And if it's raining,
Have no regrets;
Because, it isn't raining rain, you know,
It's raining violets.
And when you see clouds
Upon the hill,
You soon will see crowds
Of daffodils;
So keep on looking for the bluebird,
And listening for his song,
Whenever April showers come along.
Though April showers
May come your way,
They bring the flowers
That bloom in May;
And if it's raining,
Have no regrets;
Because, it isn't raining rain, you know,
It's raining violets.
And when you see clouds
Upon the hill,
You soon will see crowds
Of daffodils;
So keep on looking for the bluebird,
And listening for his song,

Top Al Jolson, At the Movies: Al Jolson

Top Al Jolson, You Made Me Love You

You Made Me Love You
Al Jolson (1913)
Music by James V. Monaco and Words by Joseph McCarthy
Also sung by Cole Porter
You made me love you
I didn't wanna do it
I didn't wanna do it
You made me want you
And all the time you knew it
I guess you always knew it
You made me happy sometimes
You made me glad
But there were times
You made me feel so bad
You made me cry for
I didn't wanna tell you
I didn't wanna tell you
I want some love that's true
Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do
Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie, gimmie what I cry for
You know you've got the brand of kisses
That I'd die for
You know you made me love you
You made me cry for
I didn't wanna tell you
I didn't wanna tell you
I want some love that's true
Yes, I do, 'deed I do
You know I do
Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie, gimmie what I cry for
You know you've got the brand of kisses
That I'd die for
You know you made me love you

Top Al Jolson, You Ain'T Heard Nothin' Yet: Jolie's Finest Columbia Recordings

Down Hawaii way, where I chanced to stray,
On an evening I heard a Hula maiden play,
Yaaka hula hickey dula, Yaaka hula hickey du.
Down Hawaii way, by the moonlit bay,
When I lingered awhile, she stole my heart away,
Yaaka hula hickey dula, Yaaka hula hickey du.
Oh, I don't care if you've loved the ladies far and near,
You'd forget about them all if you could hear.
Yaaka hula hickey du la, Yaaka hula hickey du.
Down Hawaii way, you would love to stay,
On an evening I heard a Hula maiden play,
Yaaka hula hickey dula, Yaaka hula hickey du.
Down Hawaii way, while the breakers play,
With a movement just like the waves, those Hulas say,
"Yaaka hula hickey dula, Yaaka hula hickey du."
Oh, I don't care if you're never, never loved before,
You'll be captivated on that coral shore.
Yaaka hula hickey du la, Yaaka hula hickey du.
I'm coming back to you, my Hula Lous,
Beside the sea at Waikiki, You'll play for me.
And once again you'll sway my heart your way,
With your yaaka hula jickey du la tune.

Top Al Jolson, Al Jolson

A lot of cobwebs in your head
You're getting rusty, so you said
You're feeling badly and everything looks grey
You're getting worried, yes indeed
I know exactly what you need
A little sunshine will make you feel OK
Give the blues a chase
Find a sunny place
Go and paint your face, with sunshine
Pay your doctor bills
Then throw away his pills
You can cure your ills, with sunshine
Why don't you take your teardrops, one by one
Before it gets too late
Hang them up out in the sun
And they'll evaporate
When the troubles start
Pounding at your heart
Rub the injured part, with sunshine
Give the blues a chase
Find a sunny place
Go and paint your face, with sunshine
Pay your doctor bills
Then throw away his pills
You can cure your ills, with sunshine
Why don't you take your teardrops, one by one
Before it gets too late
Hang them up out in the sun
And they'll evaporate
When the troubles start
Pounding at your heart
Rub the injured part, with sunshine

Top Al Jolson, Jolson Jams, Vol. 2

The moon belongs to everyone
The moon belongs to everyone
The best things in life are free
The stars belong to everyone
They gleam there for you and me
The flowers in spring
The robins that sing
The sunbeams that shine
They're yours, they're mine
And love can come to everyone
The best things in life are free

Top Al Jolson, Oh My Al!!

I got the surprise, the surprise of my life
I had to stop and stare
I saw a man dancing with his own wife
And you'll never guess where
Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin' town, that toddlin' town
Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around, I love it
Betcha bottom dollar you'll lose your blues
In Chicago, Chicago
The town that Billy Sunday could not shut down
On State Street, that great street
I just want to stay, I just want to stay
They do things they don't do on Broadway, say
They have the time, the time of their life
I saw a man who danced with his wife
In Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago
Free and easy town, brassy, breezy town
Chicago, Chicago
Let me cool my heels right down at Marshall Field
Come and walk with
Along the lake, to the drake
Hollar and hoot, all through the loop
Shout out now to Mrs. O'Leary's cow
No she-she, life is peachy
Chicago, we'll meet at the Pump Room Ambassador East
To say the least
On shishkabob and breast of squab we will feed and get free
Don't tell me sin is rampid and right
Think of that man who danced with his wife
In Chicago, Chicago,
I feel sympathy for that wonderful, windy town!

Top Al Jolson, Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder

I can be happy
I can be sad
I can be good
Or I can be bad
It all depends on you
I can be lonely
Out in a crowd
I can be humble
I can be proud
It all depends on you
I can save money or spend it
Go on livin' or end it
You're to blame, honey
For what I do
I know that I can be bigger
I can be king
I can be almost any old thing
It all depends on you
I can save money or spend it
Go right on livin' or end it
You're to blame, honey
For what I do
I know that I can be bigger
I can be king
I can be almost any old thing
It all depends on you

Top Al Jolson, The Hot 50 - Al Jolson

Come on and hear,
Come on and hear
Alexander's ragtime band.
Come on and hear,
Come on and hear
About the best band in the land.
They can play a bugle call like you never heard before,
So natural that you'll want to go to war.
That's just the bestest band what am,
Oh honey lamb.
Come on along,
Come on along,
Let me take you by the hand.
Up to the man,
Up to the man
Who's the leader of the band.
And if you want to hear the Swanee River
Played in ragtime,
Come on and hear,
Come on and hear
Alexander's Ragtime Band.
Come on and hear,
Come on and hear
Alexander's ragtime band.
Come on and hear,
Come on and hear
About the best band in the land.
They can play a bugle call like you've never heard before.
That's just the bestest band what am.
Oh my honey lamb!
Come on along,
Come on along,
Let me take you by the hand.
Up to the man,
Up to the man
Who's the leader of the band.
And if you care to hear the Swanee River
Played in ragtime,
Come on and hear,
Come on and hear
Alexander's Ragtime Band.
Alexander's Ragtime Band!

Top Al Jolson, Ill Be Seeing You

When I was boy my mother often said to me
Get married boy and see how happy you will be
I have looked all over but no girly can I find
Who seems to be just like the little girl I have in mind
I will have to look around
Until the right one I have found
I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old Dad
She was a pearl and the only girl
That Daddy ever had
A good old-fashioned girl
With heart so true
One that loves nobody else but you
I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old Dad
I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old Dad
She was a pearl and the only girl
That Daddy ever had
A good old-fashioned girl
With heart so true
One that loves nobody else but you
I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old Dad

Top Al Jolson, Alexander's Ragtime Band

Top Al Jolson, Anniversary Song

Oh how we danced on the night we were wed -
We vowed our true love tho a word wasn't said,
The moon was aglow, there were stars in the skies,
Except for the few that were there in your eyes,
Dear as I held you close in my arms-
Angels were singing a hymn to your charms
Two hearts gently beating, murmuring low,
Darlin, I love you so
The night seemed to fade into blossoming dawn
The light shone on you but the dance lingered on
Could we but recall that sweet moment sublime,

Top Al Jolson, Swanee

I've been away from you along time
I never thought I'd miss 'ya so
Somehow I feel, your love is real
Near you I wanna be.
The Birds are singing it is songtime
The banjos strumming soft and low
I know that you yearn for me to swanee you're calling me
Chorus
Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee.
I'd give the world to be among the folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for me,
praying for me down by the swanne.
The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that swanee shore
(he whistles like a bird)
I love the old folks at home
Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee. I'd give the world to be among the
folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for
me, praying for me down by the swanee.

Top Al Jolson, About a Quarter To Nine

Life begins when somebody's eyes look into your own.
Life begins when you get your gal all alone.
From morning until twilight
I don't know I'm alive
But I know love begins at 8:45.
The stars are gonna twinkle and shine,
How they'll shine!
This evening about a quarter to nine.
My loving arms are going to tenderly twine
Around you around a quarter to nine.
I know I won't be late
Cause at half past eight,
I'm going to hurry there.
I'I'll be waiting where the lane begins
Waiting for you on needles and pins.
And then the world is going to be mine
Mine all mine!
This evening about a quarter to nine.
I know I won't be late
Cause at half past eight
I'm going to hurry there.
I'll be waiting where the lane begins
Waiting for you on needles and pins.
And then the world is going to be mine
Mine all mine!
This evening about a quarter to nine.

Top Al Jolson, Avalon

I found my love in Avalon
Beside the bay.
I left my love in Avalon
And I sailed away.
I dream of her in Avalon
From dusk till dawn.
So I think I'll travel on
To Avalon.
Every morn' my memories stray
Across the sea where flying fishes play.
And as the night is falling
I find that I'm recalling
That blissful all-enthralling day.
Beside the bay.
And I sailed away.
I dream of her in Avalon
From dusk till dawn.
So I think I'll travel on
To Avalon.

Top Al Jolson, Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody

Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a tune
From the heart of Dixie.
Hang that cradle mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya.
Weap no more my lady.
Mammy sing it again for me.
And old black Joe
Just as though
You had me on your knee.
A million baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing the Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody.
Rock-a-bye,
Hush-a-bye
With a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a tune
from the heart of Dixie
Hang that cradle mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya.
Mammy, mammy listen to what they're playing.
They're playing Weap No More My Lady.
Sing it for me.
And old black Joe
Just as though
You had me on your knee.
A thousand baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody!

Top Al Jolson, When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along

When the red, red robin comes bob, bob bobbin' along, along,
There'll be no more sobbing when he starts throbbing
His own sweet song.
Wake up, wake up, you sleepy head,
Get up, get up, get out of bed,
Cheer up, cheer up the sun is red,
Live, love, laugh and be happy.
What if I've been blue,
Now I'm walking through fields of flowers,
Rain may glisten, but I still listen for hours and hours.
I'm just a kid again, doing what I did again, singing a song,
When the red, red robin comes bob, bob bobbin' along.

Top Al Jolson, Sonny Boy

Climb up on my knee Sonny Boy
Though you're only three Sonny Boy
You've no way of knowing
There's no way of showing
What you mean to me Sonny Boy
When there are gray skies
I don't mind the gray skies
You make them blue Sonny Boy
Friends may forsake me
Let them all forsake me
I still have you Sonny Boy
You're sent from heaven
And I know your worth
You made a heaven
For me here on earth
When I'm old and gray dear
Promise you won't stray dear
For I love you so Sonny Boy
When there are gray skies
I don't mind gray skies
You make them blue Sonny Boy
Friends may forsake me
Let them all forsake me
I still have you Sonny Boy
You're sent from heaven
And I know your worth
You've made a heaven
For me here on earth
And the angels grew lonely
Took you because they were lonely

Top Al Jolson, You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet!, Vol. 1

You ask me why I'm always teasing you,
You hate to have me call you Pretty Baby;
I really thought that I was pleasing you,
For you're just a baby to me.
Your cunning little dimples and your baby stare,
Your baby talk and baby walk and curly hair;
Your baby smile makes life worth while,
You're just as sweet as you can be.
Your mother says you were the cutest kid;
No wonder, dearie, that I'm wild about you,
And all the cunning things you said and did.
Why, I love to fondly recall,
Ann just like Peter Pan, it seems you'll always be
The same sweet, cunning, Little Baby dear to me.
And that is why I'm sure that I will always love you best of all.
Everybody loves a baby that's why I'm in love with you,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby;
And I'd to be your sister, brother, dad and mother too,
Pretty Baby, Pretty Baby.
Won't you come and let me rock you in my cradle of love,
And we'll cuddle all the time.
Oh! I want a Lovin' Baby and it might as well be you,
Pretty Baby of mine.
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"Pretty Baby" as written by Vanessa Carlton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., EMI Music Publishing
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All alone, I'm so all alone
There is no one else but you
All alone by the telephone
Waiting for a ring, a ting-a-ling
I'm all alone every evening
All alone, feeling blue
Wond'ring where you are and how you are
And if you are all alone too
I wonder where you are (remember me) and how you are (remember me)
And if you are (I love you) all alone (I love you) too

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I'm just wild about Harry
And Harry's wild about me!
The heav'nly blisses of his kisses,
Fills me with ecstasy!
He's sweet just like chocolate candy,
Or like the honey from the bee
Oh, I'm just wild about Harry,
And he's just wild about me.
Now I'm just wild about Harry
And Harry's wild about me!
The heav'nly blisses of his kisses,
Fills me with ecstasy!
Say now he's sweet just like chocolate candy,
Or like the honey from a bee
Oh, I'm just wild about Harry,
And he's just wild about, cannot do without,
He's just wild about me.
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"I'm Just Wild About Harry" as written by Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Now won't you listen honey, while I say,
How could you tell me that you're goin' away?
Don't say that we must part,
Don't break your baby's heart
You know I've loved you for these many years,
Loved you night and day,
Oh! honey baby, can't you see my tears?
Listen while I say
After you've gone and left me cryin'
After you've gone there's no denyin'
You'll feel blue, you'll feel sad
You'll miss the dearest pal you've ever had
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
There'll come a time when you'll regret it
Someday, when you grow lonely
Your heart will break like mine and you'll want me only
After you've gone, after you've gone away
After you've gone and left me cryin'
After you've gone there's no denyin'
You're gonna feel blue, and you're gonna feel sad
You're gonna feel bad
And you'll miss, and you'll miss,
And you'll miss the bestest pal you ever had
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
There'll come a time when you'll regret it
But baby, think what you're doin'
I'm gonna haunt you so, I'm gonna taunt you so
It's gonna drive you to ruin
After you've gone, after you've gone away.
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"After You've Gone [*]" as written by George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, Ira Gershwin
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing
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Everything seems lovely
When you start to roam;
The birds are singin', the day that you stray,
But later, when you are further away,
Things won't seem so lovely
When you're far from home;
Here's what you'll keep saying
When you're allalone:
Mammy,
Mammy,
The sun shines east, the sun shines west,
But I know where the sun shines best--
Mammy,
Mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
I'm, I'm a comin,
Sorry that I made you wait.
I'm, I'm a comin,
I Hope and trust that I'm not late,
Mammy,
I'm talkin about my mammy,
I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy! My Mammy! ah ah ah...
(SPOKEN) Mammy...
My little Mammy.
The sun shines east-- the sun shines west--
Bit I know where-- the sun shines best!
It's on my Mammy I'm talkin' about, nobody else's!
(SUNG) My little Mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
(SPOKEN) Mammy-- Mammy, I'm comin'--
Oh I hope I didn't make you wait!
Mammy-- Mammy, I'm comin'!
Oh God, I hope I'm not late!
Look at me, Mammy!ah ah ah, Don't you know me?
I't's your little baby!
(SUNG) I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy!

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Dere's an ol' man called de Mississippi
Dat's de ol' man dat I'd like to be
What does he care if de world's got troubles
What does he care if de land ain't free
Ol' man river, dat ol' man river
He mus' know sumpin', but don't say nuthin'
He jes' keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along
He don' plant taters, he don't plant cotton
An' dem dat plants' em is soon forgotten
But ol'man river
He jes' keeps rollin' along
You an' me, we sweat an' strain
Body all achin' an' wracked wid pain,
Tote dat barge! Lif' dat bale!
Git a little drunk an' you lands in jail
Ah gits weary an' sick of tryin'
Ah'm tired of livin' an' skeered of dyin'
But ol' man river
He jes' keeps rolling' along
Niggers all work on de Mississippi**
Niggers all work while de white folks play**
Pullin' dose boats from de dawn to sunset
Gittin' no rest till de judgement day
(Don't look up an' don't look down)
(You don' dar'st make de white boss frown)
(Bend your knees an' bow your head)
(An' pull dat rope until you're dead)
Let me go 'way from the Mississippi
Let me go 'way from de white man boss
Show me dat stream called de river Jordan
Dat's de ol' stream dat I long to cross
(Ol' man river, dat ol' man river)
(He mus' know sumpin', but don't say nothin')
(He just keeps rollin')
(He keeps on rollin' along)
Long, low river
Forever keeps rollin'
(Don' plant taters, he don' plant cotton)
(And dem dat plants' em is soon forgotten)
(But ol' man river
(He jes' keeps rollin' along)
Long low river
Keeps singin' dis song
You an' me, we sweat an' strain
Body all achin' and wracked wid pain
Tote dat barge! Lift dat bale!
Git a little drunk and ya lands in jail
Ah gits weary an' sick o' tryin'
Ah'm tired o livin' an' skeered o' dyin'
But ol' man river
He jes' keeps rollin' along!
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"Ol' Man River" as written by Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Top Al Jolson, The Essential Recordings

We leave home expecting to find a blue bird,
Hoping ev'ry cloud will be silver lined.
But we all return as we live wo learn,
That we left our happiness behind.
When they sing you "Look for the Silver Lining,"
It is silver dollars they're looking for.
You will find my friend that the rainbow's end,
Is somewhere around your kitchen door.
The bird with feathers of blue, is waiting for you,
Back in your own back yard,
You'll see your castle in Spain, through your window pane,
Back in your own back yard.
Oh you can go to the East go to the West,
But someday you'll come weary at heart back where you started from,
You'll find your happiness lies, right under your eyes,
Back In Your Own Backyard.

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Mammy mine, your little rolling stone that rolled away, rolled away,
Mammy mine, your little rolling stone is home today, there to stay!
I want to see your smiling face, smile a welcome smile,
I want to feel your fond embrace, listen, Mammy mine!
Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a tune
From the heart of Dixie.
Just Hang that cradle mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya.
Weep no more, Weep no more my lady.
Mammy, sing it again for me.
And "Old Black Joe"
Just as though
You had me on your knee.
A million baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody.
Rock-a-bye,
Rock your little baby
With a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a little tune
from the heart of Dixie
Just hang that cradle mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya.
Mammy, mammy listen to what they're playing.
They're playing Weep No More My Lady.
Sing it again for me.
And you remember, remember " Old Black Joe"
God love you Mammy, you sang when I was on your knee.
A million baby kisses -- [kissing sounds] -- I'll deliver,
Mammy sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody!

Al Jolson sings April Showers & My Mammy

Mammy - Al Jolson (Jazz Singer performance)

"THE 'REAL AL JOLSON STORY' south bank show ~ Pt. 1 of 4 ~ 1986

The Anniversary Song - Al Jolson (Larry Parks - The Jolson Story) (1946)

Funeral Of Al Jolson (1950)

Al Jolson----"About A Quarter To Nine"

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! - Al Jolson

"THE JOLSON STORY" AL JOLSON and LARRY PARKS HD all the way 1946

Jolson Sings Again 1949 color by TECHNICOLOR full 490x360 25 fps 768kb V 192kb A

"THE REAL AL JOLSON STORY" south bank show ~ Part 2 of 3 ~ 1986

"Camptown Races" sung by Al Jolson

Al Jolson - Brother can you spare a Dime

Joe Franklin Remembers Al Jolson

Mammy scene in THE JOLSON STORY

'Al Jolson' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

The Perfect Blue (1997)

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Ellis Island (1984)

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Parade of Stars (1983)

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Harlow (1965)

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A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962)

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The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)

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What's Up Doc? (1950)

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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

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Hollywood Handicap (1938)

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Royal Cavalcade (1935)

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Jolson, Al Filmography

Born: 1886-05-26

Died: 1950-10-23

Al Jolson sings April Showers & My Mammy

Mammy - Al Jolson (Jazz Singer performance)

"THE 'REAL AL JOLSON STORY' south bank show ~ Pt. 1 of 4 ~ 1986

The Anniversary Song - Al Jolson (Larry Parks - The Jolson Story) (1946)

Funeral Of Al Jolson (1950)

Al Jolson----"About A Quarter To Nine"

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! - Al Jolson

"THE JOLSON STORY" AL JOLSON and LARRY PARKS HD all the way 1946

Jolson Sings Again 1949 color by TECHNICOLOR full 490x360 25 fps 768kb V 192kb A

"THE REAL AL JOLSON STORY" south bank show ~ Part 2 of 3 ~ 1986

"Camptown Races" sung by Al Jolson

Al Jolson - Brother can you spare a Dime

Joe Franklin Remembers Al Jolson

Mammy scene in THE JOLSON STORY

Young Al Jolson - When You Were Sweet Sixteen

Rudy Wissler sings as young Al Jolson

Al Jolson "Rock-a-bye Your Baby"

Kol Nidre - Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer (1927)

AL JOLSON in "A PLANTATION ACT" 1926

Larry Parks As Al Jolson - Sonny Boy (Personally Remastered Sound and Widescreen)

Al Jolson - Swanee (Rhapsody in Blue 1945)

Al Jolson sings in the 1st-ever Talkie "The Jazz Singer" .mpg

Blue Skies - Al Jolson

Al Jolson sings Mammy (I'll Sing About You) - Live On Set.