In this film, he notes, "Jolson had the confidence to rhyme 'Mammy' with 'Uncle Sammy'", adding "Mammy songs, along with the vocation 'Mammy singer', were inventions ... [81] Despite their close ...

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 ...

May McAvoy and Al Jolson in ‘The Jazz Singer ... one year of her life in a Lithuanian shtetl waxing nostalgic in his songs about “my mammy from Alabammy.” But in doing so, Bernstein ...

It’s 2016 all over again. And 2020, for that matter. Democrats are staring at what looks to be another coin flip election between their party’s nominee and Donald Trump. In an election that ...

Bush’s advantage in perceived strength of leadership, which was in part burnished by his adoption of a cowboy persona. Harding, Jolson and the Cubs While Reagan’s attempt to woo 1980s rock fans is one ...

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 ...