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Al Jolson was in a class all by himself ... The corny songs inextricably associated with him were “Swanee,” “My Mammy,” “Toot Toot Tootsie,” and “Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie ...

Al Jolson “was pure id,” Mr. Hanan ... Mr. Hanan sang many of the songs Mr. Jolson was known for, including “Swanee” and “California, Here I Come.” Image “Jolson & Co.” recreated ...

In 1999, Hanan co-wrote and starred in Jolson ... Al Jolson. The show, structured as a 1946 radio interview, featured Hanan performing many of Jolson's iconic songs, including "Swanee" and ...

Abandoned by his dad Salvatore Pacino, when he was just two-years-old, Pacino - nicknamed Sonny Boy after an Al Jolson song - and his mum, Rose, lived in a series of cheap furnished rooms ...

As long as Mike Gallo Sr. was alive, Al Jolson was never really gone. But Gallo, of Brigantine, died last month at 81, years after he retired from a career singing in nightclubs from the Red ...

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 ...

From the early 1910s to the late 1940s, Bernstein writes, “there was nobody…bigger than Al Jolson.” He “was part of a cohort of entertainers whose roots were in the Russian Empire and who ...

(Photo via Wikipedia public domain) Will Rogers in 1922. (Photo via Wikipedia public domain) Al Jolson publicity photo 1925. (Photo via Wikipedia public domain) It was home to electrifying ...

Only in America, by Richard Bernstein (Knopf). This capacious biography of the Lithuanian-born entertainer Al Jolson also traces the evolution of American Jewry on stage and screen, casting Jolson ...

Al Jolson lived “The American Dream.” Born in Lithuania, Jolson rose through the ranks of vaudeville as a comedian and a blackface “Mammy” singer. By 1920, he had become the biggest star ...

For more than a 100 years, celebrities have publicly supported presidential candidates starting in 1920, when singer Al Jolson endorsed Warren G. Harding for president after World War I had just ...