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19 giu 2024 · All of them are gathered together on The Decca Years 1945 - 1950, a three CD set that also includes nine previously unreleased, alternate takes. Jolson concentrated on radio, films and the stage during his later career.
1 giorno fa · Brooks has stated that when he heard Germans singing over loudspeakers, he responded by singing into a bullhorn, Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!) by American-Jewish singer Al Jolson. Brooks spent time in the stockade after taking an anti-Semitic heckler's helmet off and smashing him in the head with his mess kit.
2 lug 2024 · A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical.
21 giu 2024 · Titled The Jazz Singer, the film starred Al Jolson and was a musical motion picture adapted from Samson Raphaelson’s play of the same name.
26 giu 2024 · al jolson | Highbrow Magazine. As Hip as Elvis: Caruso the Pop Idol. John Potter. Every generation seems to reinvent the tenor as something closer to a pop star than an opera star.
30 giu 2024 · Al Jolson was the foremost entertainer of the first half of the 20th century, a true innovator who influenced many later performers. This podcast features excerpts from radio shows of years past, giving a taste of what was to today's users of the latest technologies.
4 giorni fa · In his memoir A Moveable Feast, Hemingway claims he realized that Zelda had a mental illness when she insisted that jazz singer Al Jolson was greater than Jesus Christ. Hemingway alleged that Zelda sought to destroy her husband, and she purportedly taunted Fitzgerald over his penis' size.
