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 on Broadway, ...

Don Shirley’s commentary on Al Jolson’s life and career simply flies in the face of facts (“Let Sleeping Eras and Their Stars Lie,” May 15). He left out significant components of Jolson’s successful ...

The crowd at the Al Jolson Festival in the Oceanside Knights of Columbus Hall ballroom is primed for their sing-a-long. Instead, Babino faithfully re-creates Jolson's soaring baritone to instrumental ...

Theatergoers probably have a right to expect big things from a show about Al Jolson, the singer who billed himself as “the world’s greatest entertainer” and who promised audiences, “You ain’t heard ...

Movie heralded the end of the silent film era and the advent of talkies Story of a young Jewish boy who defies father to sing popular music inspired by star%27s own story New three-disc set comes with ...

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 ...

Our newspaper archives are filled with mysteries. Did UFOs really fly over a Bison football game in 1948? Did a North Dakota family really experience the supernatural in their living room wall ...

Jolson’s singing proves the big excitement for this Technicolorful film biog of the great mammy-singer’s career. The Jolson Story emerges as an American success story in song. The yearning to sing to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Albert Jolson, a Nashville recording studio owner and the son of legendary entertainer Al Jolson and Erle Galbraith Jolson, died ...

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