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| | Al Jolson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jolson was billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer", which is how many of the greatest stars (including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Jackie Wilson) referred to him. | | | While no official "Billboard" chart existed during Jolson's career, their staff archivist Joel Whitburn used a variety of sources such as Talking Machine World's list of top-selling recordings, and Billboard's own sheet music and vaudeville charts to estimate the hits of 1890-1954. | | | In The Jazz Singer Jolson performed the song "Mammy" in blackface. |
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| | The Scottish Rite Journal |
| | However, Jolson recorded the song and made it an instant hit-such was the power of Jolson's talent and popularity. | | | Jolson's voice had mellowed and was so good that all of his songs were re-recorded and once again released. | | | Jolson was back as the nation's top singer, followed by Bing Crosby, Perry Como, and Frank Sinatra. |
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| | Al Jolson Biography - Part I |
| | Al Jolson as he appeared on the program cover for the Broadway musical Hold On to Your Hats (1940). | | | Jolson kept introducing new gags and new verses to his songs, and audiences kept coming back to see what he would do from week to week. | | | In 1906, Al Jolson's solo career as a "singing comedian" began. |
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| | AlJolsonFacts |
| | Jolson records his last studio album for Decca, a collection of Stephen Foster songs,with conductor Gordon Jenkins. | | | Jolson records a song from the Singing Fool called “Sonny Boy”. | | | 1945...Due to Jolson’s lung problem, and faced with the fact that he would have to re-record all of his hit songs, most of the studio’s passed on the idea. |
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| | AL JOLSON A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY |
| | Jolson gives song recital concert at Boston Symphony Hall in May. He is accompanied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and he sings seventeen songs. | | | Al sings a "mammy" song in blackface for the first time. | | | Jolson is guest star on the George Burns-Gracie Allen Radio Show. |
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| | Al Jolson MP3 Downloads - Al Jolson Music Downloads - Al Jolson Music Videos |
| | "Anniversary Song" and a re-recording of "April Showers" became gold-selling hits, and the Decca album Al Jolson in Songs He Made Famous, a virtual soundtrack album, spent 25 weeks at number one on the Billboard chart, followed to the top of the chart by Al Jolson Souvenir Album and Al Jolson, Vol. | | | Naturally, there was a sequel to The Jolson Story, as Jolson Sings Again opened in August 1949, accompanied by an identically titled album that spent nearly a year on the charts. | | | He added and dropped songs as he liked, and it was not unusual for him to dismiss the cast and turn the performance into a solo concert, much to the audience's delight. |
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| | Al Jolson, The "Jazz Singer" |
| | By 1913, Jolson was a phenomenon the likes of which had never been seen in popular music in America. | | | Jolson's popularity with audiences resulted in practices by him that would consternate and befuddle fellow performers, stage managers and writers of shows. | | | Jolson liked the song so much, he had it included in his 1918 Broadway hit show, Sinbad. |
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| | Perfessor Bill Edwards - Al Jolson Hits |
| | Jolson was a stage performer in every way, and it shows in his films and records. | | | Jolson liked it enough to include it in the show he was performing in at the time, Sinbad, and recorded it as well. | | | In his recording of the piece, Jolson sounds rather constrained by the resident Columbia Records Orchestra, most of whom played the transcription from the sheet music rather stiffly while he is clearly trying to put some lilt into it. |
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| | Al Jolson The Golden Years Of Al Jolson CD |
| | Al Jolson was the ‘Greatest Entertainer In The World' for four decades, enjoying sold-out concerts, blockbuster movies and million-selling records. | | | The biographical movie 'The Jolson Story' was released in 1947 with Al himself singing the songs and Larry Parks, who played him in the film, miming along. | | | On this collection we enjoy Al performing the songs he is most famous for, from My Mammy and Sonny Boy to Carolina In The Morning and literally dozens more. |
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| | Al Jolson : Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: At Warner Bros. 1926-1936 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | Al Jolson in A Plantation Act, a one reel short Jolson made before The Jazz Singer, is heard for the first time on this compilation and his performances on "April Showers" and "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" are stunning. | | | Jolie's way with a ballad are well served by his galvanic reading of "It All Depends On You." Comparing these tracks with the latter-day recordings is a minor revelation as the energy on these tracks is palpable, revealing Al as a performer with plenty of gas left in the tank. | | | Al Jolson : Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: At Warner Bros. 1926-1936 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
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| | Stage Musicals 1920's V: Good News, Jolson, Show Boat |
| | America's top musical star of the 1920s was born in a Russian schtetle in the 1880s. | | | Jolson interpolated "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," "Swanee" and "My Mammy" into the otherwise disposable score. | | | When audiences were enthusiastic, he would dismiss the supporting cast mid-performance and sing solo for an hour or more. |
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| | Premier Collections: The Kraft Music Hall starring Al Jolson |
| | He was a recording artist of long standing: between 1912 and 1930, Al Jolson placed 85 songs on the pop music charts. | | | Jolson sings "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?," "Poor Butterfly," "All Alone," "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along," and "When I Lost You" while Judy wows the audience with "Johnny One Note" and Oscar Levant performs excerpts from Tchaikovsky's 5th Piano Concerto. | | | Jolson sings "Baby Face," "A Tree in the Meadow," "Sonny Boy," "When You Were Sweet Sixteen," "Liza," "The Best Things In Life Are Free," "What'll I Do?," "Chinatown, My Chinatown," and "In Our House." Oscar Levant plays portions of a Rachmaninoff piano concerto and Brahms Lullaby. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Best of Al Jolson: Music |
| | Unusual for a Jolson CD, the recording is amazingly clear and Jolson is at his best. | | | This is not the strongest collection of Al's music but it contains the tracks that most people are looking for at a budget price. | | | The Golden Years of Al Jolson; Audio CD ~ Al Jolson |
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| | The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Nomination : Al Jolson |
| | AL was the first in everything and should of been the first to receive the first oscar quite simply I hav'nt seen anything yet to beat him. | | | Al Jolson was surely the greatest entertainer of all time Allen D. Subject: RE: Al Jolson | | | We were fascinated and enchanted by the ability of the movie to speak to us, and with his wonderful voice that gave us those songs that even when they were sad, they made us happy. |
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| | Crosby was at his peak, having just won a Best Actor Oscar in “Going My Way” and as a recording artist he achieved 12 chart toppers in America throughout the 1940s. | | | On this 2 CD set we have re-mastered and edited the sessions to leave you the complete duets (together on CD for the first time), some fine solo performances and a little cheerful banter. | | | The show was broadcast 3 weeks later on January 15, 1947 to an incredible reception and attracted millions of listeners across the United States. |
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| | Al Jolson |
| | At the end of 1947 he was voted the most popular male singer on radio. | | | l Jolson did not just sing songs - he rattled your backbone and made you want to get up and dance. | | | for all books, videos and CDs of Al Jolson. |
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| | AL JOLSON Show |
| | Mario sings over 25 Jolson songs with the original Jolson musical arrangments! | | | He can try to fit your budget using professionaly recorded back ground music tracks with the original Jolson musical arrangements! | | | Mario can bring this great music show to you for your next event! |
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| | Al Jolson |
| | The author has secured rights to many of Jolson's most memorable songs for use in this play, which requires only a piano for accompaniment. | | | He made immortal such songs as "Swanee" and "April Showers", and starred in The Jazz Singer, the movies' first talkie. | | | JOLSON is the story of a great performer, a "lovable s.o.b." and the most sensational comeback in the history of show business. |
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| | Al Jolson -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Motion picture musicals soon became a major source of popular songs. | | | The Bell Telephone Hour, The Prudential Family Hour, The NBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Longines Symphonette offered chiefly classical music. | | | His unique singing style and personal magnetism established an immediate rapport with audiences. |
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| | Al Jolson |
| | Following that are five sections which present in detail Jolson's career on stage, on radio and television, and in the movies, a discography of Jolson's recordings, and a listing of sheet music with Jolson's name or image indicated on the cover. | | | "The Jolson Story" (1946) and "Al Jolson Sings Again" (1949), while he was still alive, and his being eulogized in 1950 by probably the top comedian of the day, Jack Benny. | | | As a reflection of his perhaps unsurpassed status was is being chosen for the key role in the world's first sound film "The Jazz Singer" (1927), his being honored by two screen biographies. |
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| | Was Jolson's persona racist? |
| | Or was he [Danson] shooting for the uncut, pre-Al Jolson blackface of the 19th Century, when white performers with faces painted black went around the country singing about Mammy and jumping up and down in praise of those cotton fields back home. | | | A well-connected showman who was a friend of Palmer and the Jolsons made them an offer: if the Jolson brothers would take care of Palmer, this mediator would write an act for the trio and get them started. | | | Al and his brother Harry were struggling teenagers trying to make their way in show business away from the home of their father and step-mother. |
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| | Al Jolson OTR MP3 List |
| | Al Jolson was a master entertainer and his performing career spanned 50 years. | | | Chicago Land Music Fest Jolson Laurence Melchior 49-badsnd | | | This is a collection of Al Jolson guest appearances and his starring role on the Kraft Music Hall radio program. |
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| | Amazon.com: Al Jolson - 22 Greatest Hits: Music: Al Jolson |
| | Buy this album with 20th Century Masters - The Millennium... | | | You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: Jolie's Finest Columbia Recordings ~ Al Jolson | | | Amazon.com: Al Jolson - 22 Greatest Hits: Music: Al Jolson |
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| | Al Jolson on Broadway by Al Jolson |
| | Alexander's Ragtime Band - Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra | | | Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody - Al Jolson, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians | | | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc. All Music Guide is a registered Trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc. |
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| | Biography of Al Jolson - the first superstar. |
| | As recently as 1995 a show based on Al Jolson’s life, Jolson: the Musical, opened in London’s West End, enjoying a successful run of eighteen months before moving on to Toronto in 1997. | | | The leading light of the Broadway musical stage from 1911 through to 1941, Jolson starred in the first ‘talking picture&;, The Jazz Singer, in 1927, leading to a successful second career in movies. | | | However, his work entertaining troops during World War II, and the release, in 1946, of the enormously popular biopic, The Jolson Story, catapulted him back into the limelight, resurrecting his recording and broadcasting career. |
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| | Al Jolson - The Jazz Singer |
| | An even bigger "THANK YOU" for preceeding that broadcast with the even earlier Jolson Vitaphone short, "A Plantation Act." Read their wonderful Press Release about this event, and read the excellent article on The Jazz Singer written by Ashley Reed of the TCM Staff. | | | Here is what The Two Thousand Year Old Man, actually 2013 years old, thought about Jolie, as portrayed in the classic recording by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks! | | | The scene is Jolson calling Irving Berlin for a new song for his movie, "The Jazz Guy"... |
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| | Al Jolson |
| | Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003) (song "Avalon") (as Jolson) | | | Do you think he's the greatest singer and entertainer ever? | | | The Jolson Story (1946) (original singing voice: Larry Parks) (uncredited) |
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| | MSN Encarta - Al Jolson |
| | In 1911 he made his musical comedy debut in La Belle Paree. | | | Al Jolson (1886-1950), American stage and film performer, most noted for his role in the motion picture The Jazz Singer. | | | He became a circus performer and café entertainer. |
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| | Internet Archive: Details: Collected Works of Al Jolson |
| | If you have only heard his re-recordings of these classics he did in the 1940's, you must give these original 78's a listen. | | | Jolson was simply one of the greatest performers of the twentieth century. | | | Although his improvisation, his Dixie infatuation and his fake stutter do get annoying at times, I really enjoyed these. |
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| | Blackface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was Lucas who later played the title role in the first cinematic production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. | | | Many well-known entertainers of stage and screen also performed in blackface, including Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as actor and comedian Bert Williams, who was the first black performer in vaudeville and on Broadway. | | | But apart from cultural references such as those seen in theatrical cartoons, onstage blackface essentially was eliminated in the U.S., post-vaudeville, when public sensibilities regarding race began to change and blackface became increasingly associated with racism and bigotry. |
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| | Al Jolson |
| | The story of "The Jazz Singer" is similar to Al's real-life story; he too was expected to be a cantor and ran away from home. | | | Believed to be the best vaudevillian of all time, Al Jolson also has the monumental credit of being the first person to speak in a feature film. | | | "You ain't heard nothing yet," spoken by Al, became the first words uttered on the silver screen, and propelled him to superstardom. |
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| | Al Jolson's widow dead at 81 |
| | Krasna, who died at her Century City home, controlled Jolson's recordings after his death in 1950. | | | Erle Jolson Krasna, the widow of singer Al Jolson and later of screenwriter and producer Norman Krasna, died of cancer on Sunday. | | | Jolson starred in the first "talkie" film in 1927, "The Jazz Singer." Born Erle Chenault Galbraith in Little Rock, Ark., Krasna met Jolson at a hospital in Hot Springs, Ark. She moved to Los Angeles and appeared in several minor film roles before marrying Jolson in 1945. |
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| | Al Jolson |
| | The Arts: The real first talkie It was not The Jazz Singer that brought sound to the cinema but a 10-minute Al Jolson short, which was shown once, then vanished. | | | The son of a rabbi, Jolson first planned to become a cantor but soon turned to the stage. | | | Al Jolson - Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) entertainer Born: 5/26/1886 Birthplace: Lithuania Entertainer who performed... |
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| | Al Jolson's grave |
| | Containing his crypt, a statue of himself in his most famous pose and a ornate painted ceiling. | | | This archway and waterfall is the monument that Jolson designed as a tribute to himself. | | | Located on the hill to your right, as you enter the grounds. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Al Jolson |
| | Jolson, Al (1886-1950), American stage and film performer, most noted for his role in the motion picture The Jazz Singer. | | | Al Başrah, also known as Basra, city in southeastern Iraq, capital of Al Başrah Governorate on the Shatt al Arab. | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Al Jolson |
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| | Al Jolson Website Items : CafePress.com |
| | This shop features items dedicated to the man who was known as The World's Greatest Entertainer, a superstar before the word was coined, and whose musical heritage created much of the entertainment industry we know today. | | | Now you can share your love of the World's Greatest Entertainer, Al Jolson, with others through these exclusive items bearing the Jolson site logo. | | | Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the Terms of Service. |
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| | Index |
| | I accept no legal liability for misuse by others of any of these selections as in regard to any and all copyrights which may or not be applied to any selection contained within these pages. | | | Please join me this week and every week as we tour down memory lane in the company of | | | This site should be viewed using MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 3.0 |
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| | Al Jolson Society Official Website |
| | If you do not have such a browser, you may select the button below to return to the non-frames version of the page. | | | I would appreciate a short piece of Email telling me that you saw this note, so that I can plan ahead accordingly. | | | The Al Jolson Society Website requires a frames-capable browser. |
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| | Weber and Fields/Al Jolson/ This is America Star |
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| | Operation Dawn starring Al Jolson and Agnes Moorehead 49-05-22 |
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