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 Rosie," ...
Albert Jolson, a Nashville recording studio owner and the son of legendary entertainer Al Jolson and Erle Galbraith Jolson, died March 4 in Nashville following a two-month battle with pneumonia. He ...
If Al Jolson wasn't the meanest, nastiest, most self-centered performer in show business, he campaigned hard for the title. If Stephen Mo Hanan's eerie musical impersonation of the legendary ...
Al Jolson singing “Oh! Susanna” on the soundtrack of the 1939 movie musical “Swanee River” is 97 seconds of sheer bliss. The legendary entertainer performed this vintage Stephen Foster song on many ...
This show's title pulls no punches. "Jolson: A Vaudeville" uses acts from a vaudeville program to tell the story of America's (self-described) greatest entertainer. The approach is nothing new for a ...
"A Tribute To Al Jolson" The International Al Jolson Society's 2004 Long Island Jolson Festival, Saturday, Nov. 13, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Knights of Columbus, 2985 Kenneth Pl., Oceanside. Tickets are ...
A pair of bloodhounds on a recent Hobby Lobby show bayed like banshees during rehearsals, then closed up like mummies when the program went on the air. A CBS announcer a few Sundays back inadvertently ...