and some great movies don't lean on beautiful images, but for the most part, film is an inherently visual medium. Heck, before audiences heard Al Jolson's voice in 1927's The Jazz Singer ...

In early 20th-century San Diego, the vaudeville scene was a dazzling spectacle, offering everything from slapstick comedy and ...

About the Album: In the 1920s, Al Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer and dubbed The World's Greatest Entertainer. He popularised many songs that benefited from his ...

Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and ...

Guess there’s some joy in the House of Adams to have survived 19 traditional Presidential Inaugurations, two extraordinary ...

About the Album: Rare early recordings, some live, of Al Jolson from Chip Deffaa's own extensive collection. "Swanee," "Medley: Whispering / My Melancholy Baby / Poor Butterfly," "Ma Blushing ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill ...

It was not the “Jazz Singer’’ with Al Jolson, although he was popular in the Lehigh Valley, frequently at the Allentown Fair in live performances and in Broadway try-out productions.

We enjoyed a lovely version with vocal by Sheila of ‘April Showers’ the song being introduced to the Broadway musical ‘Bombo’ in 1921 and sung then by Al Jolson. Sheila continued with a ...