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  2. The Jazz Singer - Wikipedia

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    The Jazz Singer was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theatre, both starring Al Jolson, reprising his screen role. The first aired August 10, 1936; the second, also starring Gail Patrick , on June 2, 1947.

  3. Al Jolson - Wikipedia

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    With Warner Bros. Al Jolson made his first "all-talking" picture, The Singing Fool (1928), the story of an ambitious entertainer who insisted on going on with the show even as his small son lay dying. The film was even more popular than The Jazz Singer. "Sonny Boy", from the film, was the first American record to sell one million copies.

  4. The Jazz Singer (1952 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Jazz Singer is a 1952 remake of the famous 1927 talking picture The Jazz Singer. It stars Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz, and was nominated for an Oscar for best musical score. The film follows about the same storyline as the version starring Al Jolson. It was also distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

  5. My Mammy - Wikipedia

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    Jolson recorded this song twice and performed it in films, including The Jazz Singer (1927) and Rose of Washington Square (1939). [2] His voice can also be heard (dubbing actor Larry Parks) singing the song in The Jolson Story (1946). [3] The group The Happenings revived the song in 1967 with a recording that reached #13 on the Billboard Hot ...

  6. I Love to Singa - Wikipedia

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    The plot is a tribute to Al Jolson's 1927 film The Jazz Singer. [3] The owlet's disciplinarian violinist father, Professor Fritz Owl (voiced by Billy Bletcher), kicks him out of the family's home after catching him singing jazz instead of "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" to the pump organ accompaniment of his mother (voiced by Martha Wentworth).

  7. Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!) - Wikipedia

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    While the Jolson version was the most popular, other high-selling versions in 1923 were those by Ernest Hare & Billy Jones, Vincent Lopez, and Benson Orchestra of Chicago. [ 6 ] "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" appeared in the films The Jazz Singer (1927), [ 7 ] Rose of Washington Square (1939), [ 8 ] The Jolson Story (1946), I'll See You in My Dreams ...

  8. Avalon (Al Jolson song) - Wikipedia

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    Originally, only Rose and Jolson were credited, and DeSylva's name was added later. [2] A popular jazz standard, the song has been recorded by many artists, including Cab Calloway (1934), Coleman Hawkins (1935) and Eddie Durham (1936). The Benny Goodman Quartet played the song in their famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. [2]

  9. The Jazz Singer (play) - Wikipedia

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    The star of the show was a thirty-year-old singer, Al Jolson, a Russian-born Jew who performed in blackface. [1] In a 1927 interview, Raphaelson described the experience: "I shall never forget the first five minutes of Jolson—his velocity, the amazing fluidity with which he shifted from a tremendous absorption in his audience to a tremendous ...