How To Use Jolson In A Sentence
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Keeping only the title idiom from Jolson's hit, the Chatmon composition stands a New York story on its head.
Blues Song Is a Decades-Long Music Lesson
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Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
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He synched sound with film long before a singing Al Jolson wowed film audiences in 1927.
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The Jolson Story - Young Asa Yoelson lives with his parents in Washington where his father is a cantor at the local synagogue.
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Film had been successfully synchronized to sound by 1927, when The Jazz Singer premiered with music chosen and performed by Al Jolson.
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Rebecca Nicholson"You ain't heard nothin' yet," proclaimed Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927, heralding the end of the silent era in movie-making.
Tonight's TV highlights: Love Your Garden | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Santana Story | Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood | Isle Of Wight Festival 2011 | In Treatment
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Though most of the film was silent, when Al Jolson opened his mouth to sing, his own voice actually filled the theater.
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To raise money for Breast Cancer Research, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Great North Air Ambulance, Coun Armstrong, known as Binky, is to hold a concert at The Wave Centre in Maryport with an Al Jolson flavour.
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Jerry Lee often said that pop music had produced only four supreme stylists: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and himself.
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Rebecca Nicholson"You ain't heard nothin' yet," proclaimed Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927, heralding the end of the silent era in movie-making.
Tonight's TV highlights: Love Your Garden | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Santana Story | Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood | Isle Of Wight Festival 2011 | In Treatment
