Al Jolson Cd
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60 Track Retrospective of the ''great Entertainer of the World", a True Show Business Legend. Includes all his Hits and Encompasses all Periods of his Career from Stage to Film. Read more...
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Al Jolson, The Best of Al Jolson: 20th Century Masters--The Millennium Collection
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Two CD set. Al Jolson became "The World's Greatest Entertainer" in the early 20th century, and his flamboyant talent is nostalgically recalled here with "Sonny Boy", "Swanee", "My Mammy" and many more. 40 tracks. Primo. Read more...
Sonoma's Jeff Gilbert – the last crooner
“I have always been fascinated with the entertainers of the bygone era,” says Jeff, who was fortunate enough to meet people like Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Tony Martin, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, and so on down a long list. Working up and down the west |
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Mississippi blues tribute has desert roots It would be hard to find as many music icons in any other small town — unless you consider that such pop legends as Al Jolson, Gene Austin, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry, Elvis Presley and Barry Manilow have lived in Palm Springs. |
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Today in Music History - Sept. 26 Gershwin's first major hit song was "Swanee," made popular by Al Jolson in 1920. Four years later came "Rhapsody in Blue," a symphonic jazz work, which was premiered by Paul Whiteman's orchestra with Gershwin himself at the piano. |
After walking past his three secretaries to his private office, he sat at his desk and ate a light breakfast of stewed prunes and wheatina. He used to have fresh fruit but that was when he was younger, in his 60’s, and his digestive system was more durable.
One of his secretaries walked in with print outs of some congratulatory emails. Doug told her that he would dictate his responses to them later in the day. How does that email machine work anyway?
After breakfast Morris made his first official phone call as CEO of Sony Music. It was to Tommy Mottola asking him what he should do and offering Tommy a label deal. He figured it would be a good time to revive the old Portrait Records label.
My account of ‘Havago1′ was terminated due to copyright infringement via some of my posts.
Although not intentional on my part: YouTube had no choice but to terminate after they discovered that by including Johnny and the Hurricanes within my “Hit Records of 1960, I had once again violated copyright … It was finally one too many!
