About the Album: In the 1920s, Al Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer and dubbed The World's Greatest Entertainer. He popularised many songs that benefited from his ...

Richard Bernstein wastes no time dealing with the radioactive subject of blackface in his fascinating new biography of the Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson ... in his songs about “my mammy ...

To mark the 97th anniversary of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, which is being celebrated on October 6, the Malta branch of The International Al Jolson Society is holding an exhibition ...

The song’s lyrics describe a down-on-his-luck Vietnam War veteran, but if you don’t listen carefully to the lyrics, the song can sound like a celebration of veterans and being American.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matt Harris, Park University (THE CONVERSATION) It’s 2016 all over again. And ...

Penguin Press The famously private Scarface actor — who titled the book after the childhood nickname his mother, Rose, gave him from the Al Jolson song of the same name — says he wanted to ...

She had attempted suicide.” “Sonny Boy” was Rose’s nickname for Pacino – she’d taken it from the hit song by Al Jolson, which ...

Harding, Jolson and the Cubs While Reagan’s attempt to woo 1980s rock fans is one of the best-known attempts to campaign on a mantra of popular culture, it was far from the first. Harding’s ...

bopped — sometimes stopping to speak — as he turned the event into almost a living-room listening session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist.” The music included ...