About the Album: Rare early recordings, some live, of Al Jolson from Chip Deffaa's own extensive collection. "Swanee," "Medley: Whispering / My Melancholy Baby / Poor Butterfly," "Ma Blushing ...

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 ...

A few music lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al Jolson’s name came up. A notable musician and scribe remarked: “I wear headphones when I play his records because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...