# Al Jolson

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Public Domain Day Record Party 2025 (Second Helping)

Join Adam Graham in a special edition of The Old Time Radio Snack Wagon, where we take a nostalgic journey back to 1924. As records from this year enter the public domain, Adam shares some of the era's most iconic tunes, starting with Al Jolson's lively "California Here I Come." Experience the rich…

The First Recording Stars: Enrico Caruso, Bert Williams and Al Jolson: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.8

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses minstrelsy and blackface and includes a recording of a 1902 ‘coon song,’ presented as historical evidence. Racial slurs occur in the song’s title and in the discussion around it. In this episode, author Peter Doggett and host Nate Wilcox discuss "Electric…

The First Recording Stars: Enrico Caruso, Bert Williams and Al Jolson: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.8

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses minstrelsy and blackface and includes an 1890s recording by George Washington Johnson, presented as historical evidence. Racial slurs occur in the billing given to the…

Haunted Theatres Part 2

Haunted theatres have a way of turning performance history into something far stranger, and this conversation explores some of the most intriguing reports from Edinburgh, London, Aberdeen, and Kirkcaldy. From apparitions that seem to repeat the same route night after night to playful presences that…

Al Jolson's The Singing Kid (1936): a blackface act so hammy, even the PEOPLE IN THE MOVIE are tired of his "mammy" schtick!

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The Reel Schmooze on 'The Jazz Singer': How the world's first 'talkie' could not be more Jewy

Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use. Hoffman starts off with two quick Jangles -- news with a Jewish angle- before we devote the program to the original 1927 "T…

"Sonny Boy" by Al Jolson and Charlie McCarthy 02 Oct 1947

From the first of the Kraft Music Hall series, October 2, 1947, here are Al Jolson and Charlie McCarthy, the puppet persona of Edgar Bergen, with a unique rendition of "Sonny Boy." This arrangement was used later by the Andrews Sisters, and even Jerry Lewis, but this was where it originated. The …

"Liza" by Al Jolson and Oscar Levant 09 Oct 1947

From the second Kraft Music Hall, October 9, 1947, here are Al Jolson and Oscar Levant, beginning with some piano explorations, and then a great rendition of Gershwin's "Liza." The complete broadcast circulates with other Jolson radio shows on the Official Al Jolson Website at www.jolson.org.

6th October 1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the first major “talkie” movie, premieres in New York City

The Jazz Singer demonstrated to a large audience that recorded dialogue could be incorporated successfully into a commercial feature film. It used the Vitaphone system that played large phonograph discs in synchronisation with the film ...

Does the discovery of a 'talkie' made in 1926 change cinema history?

News broke today of a discovery which may rewrite cinematic history. In 1926 Scottish playwright Graham Moffat's film - Till the Bells Ring - using pioneering audio technology which allowed sound and pictures to be synchronised, was premiered in Edinburgh. For decades, Alan Crossland’s 1927 film…