San Francisco, California, U.S. According to music historian Larry Stempel, "No one had heard anything quite like it before on Broadway." Stephen Banfield wrote that Jolson's style was "arguably the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

America the beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates ; Samuel A. Ward -- Mairzy doats / Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston -- Anniversary song / Al Jolson ; Saul Chaplin -- The anniversary waltz / Al ...

Celebrated song-and-dance man who was a major Broadway ... Greatest Entertainer" and the biggest egomaniac in show business, Jolson got his start as a blackface singer in vaudeville around 1906.

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 ...