A lot of misconceptions about this man. Early he hung out in black jazz clubs. Fascinated by what Jolson saw and heard, he started using what he had learned, on Broadway, introducing music, to mostly white audiences, in blackface, to be more realistic. He supported black stagehands, in a workers strike, aahebbd he was very public, and outspoken about it. On a radio show, in one broadcast, he stated, that your race, your background, or where you are from, can stop you from achievement. Al Jolson understood prejudice, as he was Jewish. Perhaps his methods were wrong, but out of ignorance, not hate.
@@ColtDee Those who did said you could feel the energy. It was unexplainable. If things weren’t going well. Jolie would stop and break into hours long singing & entertaining. His energy was phenomenal. There was , and still is, something special about the man.
Absolutely, Ramon. Jolson was a genius who was ahead of his time. This is brilliant work. Glad you recognize its importance and significance to your own history!
In 1907, when Al Jolson was just 20, he married Henrietta Keller. At the time he could not find work. So he took a job with Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show which was white men singing and dancing in blackface. Jolson was not happy singing the same old songs, the same old way night after night. One night while the show was in New Orleans, Jolson goes for a walk and winds up in the black section of town where he hears music that he had never heard before coming out of a club. It was JAZZ! He had never heard that kind of music being played by black musicians before. He loses track of time and doesn't get back in time for the Minstrel Show. He is fired. But this experience, hearing JAZZ music, changed his musical career forever. Here is that scene from The 1946 motion picture 'The Jolson Story'.. Jolson is being played by actor Larry Parks. th-cam.com/video/4sN2WG2jr0U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KIqm5vPeJ4KjxRm5
I read earlier today that Fred Mertz on the I Love Lucy show actually introduced this song to vaudeville audiences before Al Jolson. Apparently he was a good singer.
Jolson helped many black entertainers to get their start in the industry. And whenever he played the blackface character, it was never as a figure of ridicule, rather of dignity and reverence.
He called his blackface character 'Gus'. It was a role he was playing. Al Jolson was not a racist. Neither were Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, or multitudes of others who blacked up for a role. Racism is defined in one's actions and one's motivations, not necessarily by the color of one's make-up, or of one's skin.
In 1907, when Al Jolson was just 20, he married Henrietta Keller. At the time he could not find work. So he took a job with Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show which was white men singing and dancing in blackface. Jolson was not happy singing the same old songs, the same old way night after night. One night while the show was in New Orleans, Jolson goes for a walk and winds up in the black section of town where he hears music that he had never heard before coming out of a club. It was JAZZ! He had never heard that kind of music being played by black musicians before. He loses track of time and doesn't get back in time for the Minstrel Show. He is fired. But this experience, hearing JAZZ music, changed his musical career forever. Here is that scene from The 1946 motion picture 'The Jolson Story'.. Jolson is being played by actor Larry Parks. th-cam.com/video/4sN2WG2jr0U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KIqm5vPeJ4KjxRm5
Jolson used black face to bring black music and culture to white audiences. Jolson helped Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake get started. Just to name two black Americans he helped. May he 4ever RIP.❤😊
Great entertainment remember lenny Henry used to take the shilling with the black and white minstrels and he ended up up getting a knighthood and doing a premier inn add repect !!!
Al called his blackface character 'Gus'. It was just a role he was playing. Al Jolson was not a racist. Neither were Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, or multitudes of others who blacked up for a role. Racism is defined in one's actions and one's motivations, not necessarily by the color of one's make-up, or of one's skin.
I understand there's a lot of controversy with blackface, but there is something oddly wholesome and charming about this. Maybe it's the music, the background, his voice. Idk for sure
I totally agree. Jolson greatly admired the style and the excellence of the entertainment provided by black people. He recognized how tremendously talented they were. And for a performer with the popularity of Jolson to imitate them is in my opinion, truly a great honor.
Racists have completely taken over TH-cam. No way you can make this right, but a racisrmt will try, but trip the fock out if a tranny advertises for a beer 😂😂😂.
I grew up in the south many many years ago. I had a Mammy or Nanny that took care of my brother and I. Our care taker was named Eunice. We all loved her as a part of our family. She gave me knowledge of life's basics and to love the Lord. I'd walk a million miles to see her smile just once more and to say I loved you.
@@JoeKnows44 OK that's cool. If you're reading about him you know he was not a racist. And he was promoting black music, used real black actors in his movies instead of white people wearing blackface and that he himself wore blackface because he was insecure. He was hiding himself as crazy as that sounds because at the time he was considered the world's greatest entertainer. Check out another one of my Jolson videos called Liza Lee and see what I'm talking about. No white performer in 1930 would ever pick up a black girl and dance with her. Peace out th-cam.com/video/A9V8hwWzccA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UnI-kJGWa7LfdDFK
@@lennon1252, thanks. It seems he was a very complicated individual with a complicated legacy, but I can say that I haven't yet heard one credible account of him being hateful, malicious or intentionally racist. What is most vexing to me is that for the most part, he was playing to audience of racists. People who wanted the music and sentimentality that Jolson delivered, but wouldn't accept it from a black performer. Thanks for your work sharing history with so many of us.
@@JoeKnows44 You are 100% correct White people even today do not give black people the credit they deserved. Blacks fought in WWII and in the Vietnam War and they came home unable to eat in a white restaurant or go to a white bathroom. And Elvis Presley had the same thing. He sang black music but folks excepted it because he was white. The Beatles sang black music and put it on the American racist radio stations. When they were touring down South they were horrified to see a rope in the audience. They asked why was there a rope? The owner of the venue said to separate the white and black kids. The Beatles especially John Lennon told the promoter that if he didn't take the rope down they wouldn't play. A lot of arguing with the manager but the Beatles held their ground. P.S. the rope was taken down. True story ♥.
@Caroline Woodward Thank You! I am 72, born a few weeks after Al Jolson passed. I cannot think of anybody else, who got me interested in singers, and musical movies, stage entertainment in general than Al Jolson. Hearing his voice on old 78 rpms, seeing the movies about him on TV, people taking him of, relatives etc, talking about him, or the movies about him, or the early talkies he was in. it, not instantly but eventually at a very young age, got me out of mud pies, cowboys and indians, and all those things pre teen boys are into. To me, because he gave it more than, others I heard very young, it I think influenced me to get into the rock and roll, when it happened. The likes of Frankie Laine,, Johnny Raye, Guy Mitchel were a sort of bridge from Jolson to rock and roll, because Jolson lived at a time popular music, and everything in general changed so much, due to new inventions coming along, and new and different ways of doing things, there is a lot of entertainment history there, and I have found it has helped me get into other artists, and different eras, ragtime, Jazz, Vaudeville, swing etc, prior to my own life time. When you carry the label of The World's Greatest Entertainer, more than anybody ever, although others have also had the title, it puts a burden on you, to be tops in everything, and comparisons on statistics, overall talents etc will be thrown up objectively, and of course there is always somebody/s that does some things better, than Jolson, or anybody,? or were more popular, for a longer period etc, but then there is other times it is vice versa. All indications are that in front of an audience, most always, Al Jolson just had a way of communication that totally broke down all barriers between artist and audience, particularly in legitimate theater, where he just really dominated shows, did as he liked, and really turned them into personal concerts of his own. No body has ever repeated that. There is brief examples of that. on some of his radio shows, and briefly hinted at in movies from time to time, However, the restrictions of time, working to plots etc. The free wheeling, come on everybody and lets just have a great time Al Jolson, was not possible unless live, and in real time, Still there is plenty to enjoy that has been preserved, and to me above all, it is the Singing. A Voice that has a sound all it's own, with variation over some 40 years, involving so much contrast and styles. I think also because Al Jolson was born in, and developed in a time that was completely non technically assisted, it gave him a way of selling a lyric, get the true full meaning from it, than those later more technically assisted. He of course did adjust and use technology to his advantage, and many of the songs he sang on radio in the late 1940's. that came out long before radio, are superb. Still with the pathos. melancholy of earlier times, but in a more updated style. Unfortunately somebody that passed now over 72 years ago, and who was the number one star in America beginning approx some 38/9 years prior, is going to carry a lot of baggage, just on the reality of the passage of time. Lots of people have passed on in all that time, People have found different idols in their own life times, and to most, it is a feeling of, a burden of not being accepted in the now, if they show any interest, or give any credence to anybody that just out dates them if they do. As I say Al Jolson, was not part of my own lifetime by a few weeks, but to me, that has never bothered me. I prefer to be true to myself, than just feel I am accepted, and go along with what appears to be what the majority do ,and although even when I was very young I learnt Al Jolson, even then, went back a long time, but all the years since that have have made no difference, when I hear him, or see him in a clip like a 80 something year old clip like this, his presence, impact, and sheer enjoyment it gives me, It to me, IS JUST LIKE HE IS ALIVE AGAIN! www.jolsdon.org aljolson.weebly.com. for links to much more.
To M Turner. What does Al Jolson religious preference hv 2 do with anything? U hv 2 explain tt one 2 me. Al Jolson was white. So again, what does his religious preference hv 2 do with his race? Look up his birth certificate if it still exists. Or look up his race FM Ellis Island's immigration records when his parents arrived FM Latvia, or Lithuania, which were still part of the Russian Empire at that time, in the late 1880s. So I do not get ur point. Anyway, tks 4 ur reply, hv a great day, and God bless U and ur family.😊
My first time seeing anything by Al Jolson...yikes this is what they called entertainment back then!? Anything better by him, he's supposed to be a legend?
F……controversy. I’m sick of hearing all this. He was an entertainer. The end. I love golliwogs too. How’s that for racist. The do gooders started all this rubbish. Yes take everything away from history with these great entertainers. 😮
Videos like this just go to show how there is nothing and never was anything wrong with so-called "blackface"... the petulent adult children who take offense to it are just whining to whine.
@@donaldjacques7962 You are 100% correct. The History of white people wearing blackface goes back hundreds of years. It was used to demean black people. There was absolutely nothing positive about it. It was disgusting. The only thing I can tell you is, Al Jolson, a Lithuanian Jew, who knew all about hate, prejudice and antisemitism, NEVER wore blackface to demean or make fun of black people. He lived in an Era where it was the norm. Especially in Minstrel shows down south. This was the Era he lived in. Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and even Shirley Temple wore blackface. I never saw Jolson make fun of black people. It was he who used real black performers in his movies not white people wearing blackface. He was not a racist by any means. One day he was eating in a restaurant and 2 black men were eating with him and the owner came over and asked the black men to leave. Jolson told the owner if they have to leave, then I'm leaving too and not coming back. The owner let them stay. True story. ☺
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Loved hearing his songs at my Grandmother's house, he, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin, all bring back happy memories. ❤
I’ve learned something new today!As a black British woman married to a Lithuanian man ( Al has Lithuanian heritage) in 2024, I respect this history!
This dude babysat me when I was a kid.
You gotta be old
They know how to belt out a good song.
A lot of misconceptions about this man. Early he hung out in black jazz clubs. Fascinated by what Jolson saw and heard, he started using what he had learned, on Broadway, introducing music, to mostly white audiences, in blackface, to be more realistic. He supported black stagehands, in a workers strike, aahebbd he was very public, and outspoken about it. On a radio show, in one broadcast, he stated, that your race, your background, or where you are from, can stop you from achievement. Al Jolson understood prejudice, as he was Jewish. Perhaps his methods were wrong, but out of ignorance, not hate.
THE STAR REPORT SENT ME HERE MAMMY 🤣
This shit crazy 🤣 🤣
Me too 😂😂
Same
OH MAMMY!
Like a Moona and a Juna and a Springa
I feel a stronger bond to Al; Jolson than the astronauts
How fantastic it must have been to see and hear him on Broadway!!
I totally agree. It would have been one of the greatest accomplishments of my life!
I bet.
@@ColtDee
Those who did said you could feel the energy. It was unexplainable. If things weren’t going well. Jolie would stop and break into hours long singing & entertaining. His energy was phenomenal. There was , and still is, something special about the man.
@@TomSpeaks-vw1zp Jolly was unique a one-of-a-kind entertainer.
Thank you, the star report.
I jus posted the samething Star is the truth 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@lerenzoroberts3663 word
Beautiful voice ! 👏 👏 👏 👏
It was even better in 45 till his unfortunate death in Oct,1950. His bass voice singing is phenomenal! But no matter when, al was the BEST!
The Jazz Singer .. singing a great hit. A true classic
RIP Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 - October 23, 1950), aged 64
You will be remembered as a legend.
As Jerome once said: Mammy, it's your little boy Sammy, so put on the eggs and hammy, Mammy.
Brilliant work. Love every second of it ❤ 👏
Of course you do
Absolutely, Ramon. Jolson was a genius who was ahead of his time. This is brilliant work. Glad you recognize its importance and significance to your own history!
Amazing!👌🏾
@@ramonwilliams83 Us guys could start an Al Jolson fan club. He's the best
@@dave2940 I would love it we can listen to the greatest hits from the grave 🪦 how does that sound?
Always loved this song.......
In 1907, when Al Jolson was just 20, he married Henrietta Keller. At the time he could not find work. So he took a job with Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show which was white men singing and dancing in blackface. Jolson was not happy singing the same old songs, the same old way night after night.
One night while the show was in New Orleans, Jolson goes for a walk and winds up in the black section of town where he hears music that he had never heard before coming out of a club. It was JAZZ! He had never heard that kind of music being played by black musicians before. He loses track of time and doesn't get back in time for the Minstrel Show. He is fired. But this experience, hearing JAZZ music, changed his musical career forever.
Here is that scene from The 1946 motion picture 'The Jolson Story'.. Jolson is being played by actor Larry Parks.
th-cam.com/video/4sN2WG2jr0U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KIqm5vPeJ4KjxRm5
Freaking awesome man
I love u, Sara
@@BaseballPlayer0 a baseball dude do your research before you make comments. I am a 53 year-old man Sarah is my 16 you're old daughter
I love Al and his music forever
One of the greatest entertainers ever.
Fantastic
2023 , still listening and watching and always will 😮 outstanding
his father was a Rabbi and wanted him to al;so be one...AL Said..."I Gotta Singa"
I read earlier today that Fred Mertz on the I Love Lucy show actually introduced this song to vaudeville audiences before Al Jolson. Apparently he was a good singer.
Wonderful, Thank you!
Jolson helped many black entertainers to get their start in the industry. And whenever he played the blackface character, it was never as a figure of ridicule, rather of dignity and reverence.
He called his blackface character 'Gus'. It was a role he was playing.
Al Jolson was not a racist. Neither were Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, or multitudes of others who blacked up for a role. Racism is defined in one's actions and one's motivations, not necessarily by the color of one's make-up, or of one's skin.
In 1907, when Al Jolson was just 20, he married Henrietta Keller. At the time he could not find work. So he took a job with Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show which was white men singing and dancing in blackface. Jolson was not happy singing the same old songs, the same old way night after night.
One night while the show was in New Orleans, Jolson goes for a walk and winds up in the black section of town where he hears music that he had never heard before coming out of a club. It was JAZZ! He had never heard that kind of music being played by black musicians before. He loses track of time and doesn't get back in time for the Minstrel Show. He is fired. But this experience, hearing JAZZ music, changed his musical career forever.
Here is that scene from The 1946 motion picture 'The Jolson Story'.. Jolson is being played by actor Larry Parks.
th-cam.com/video/4sN2WG2jr0U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KIqm5vPeJ4KjxRm5
Brilliant!😂😂😂😂
MLKjr,"Judge Not by the color of skin but the content of Character"
He sang this in the key of C because he was younger. But for The Jolson Story he sang it in Bb a whole step lower.
I believe that his manager(?) suggested he try singing in a lower key. It resulted in a reinvented Jolie. Much more relaxed and mellow voice.
Oh, how this man makes one happy to be alive!
I assume u all know the Jazz Singer was based on Al Jolson's life
The best you can lilith to ❤❤❤
Love it. Every one should watch this
Jolson used black face to bring black music and culture to white audiences. Jolson helped Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake get started. Just to name two black Americans he helped. May he 4ever RIP.❤😊
Except he’s Jewish not white.
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@@mturner2584 Wilton Gregory is the first African American Cardinal in the Catholic Church. Would you say, "Except he's Catholic not black"?
THe Movie Jazz Singer was based on Al Jolson's life
@@hmackie6823 not really. It was more Hollywood
Amazing ❤
The Brave Little Toaster brought me here.
this guy had character
NEW IRISH HIT
He was Jewish
Great entertainment remember lenny Henry used to take the shilling with the black and white minstrels and he ended up up getting a knighthood and doing a premier inn add repect !!!
Shieeet.
Star show brought me here hollysmokes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Woah, thought this was trudeau before I heard the awesome voice.
🚬🚬🚬
It’s a compliment to sing blackface they have very good rythym wonderful
Epic
Al called his blackface character 'Gus'. It was just a role he was playing.
Al Jolson was not a racist. Neither were Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, or multitudes of others who blacked up for a role. Racism is defined in one's actions and one's motivations, not necessarily by the color of one's make-up, or of one's skin.
Larry Parks actually did this even better - he mimed but his phrasing of the song is better
In Seconday school my desk partner was once or twice Richard Petter but the ultimate choice in commenting upon this make up video is mine.
Seinfeld brought me here...
Mísè ès Ribidium fàdà
I understand there's a lot of controversy with blackface, but there is something oddly wholesome and charming about this. Maybe it's the music, the background, his voice. Idk for sure
Well Eminem does it in present day
I totally agree. Jolson greatly admired the style and the excellence of the entertainment provided by black people. He recognized how tremendously talented they were. And for a performer with the popularity of Jolson to imitate them is in my opinion, truly a great honor.
There's literally nothing malicious about it
Racists have completely taken over TH-cam. No way you can make this right, but a racisrmt will try, but trip the fock out if a tranny advertises for a beer 😂😂😂.
I grew up in the south many many years ago. I had a Mammy or Nanny that took care of my brother and I. Our care taker was named Eunice. We all loved her as a part of our family. She gave me knowledge of life's basics and to love the Lord. I'd walk a million miles to see her smile just once more and to say I loved you.
The black national anthem.
As a black man myself, I love this! It's hilarious!!
As a black man myself, I don't.
Y not
😢😢😢
😊 😊 😊
@@lennon1252 Thank you. I lost my mum last year. She was 93 but I’m still grieving. Thanks for making me smile
MAMMY!!!!!! MAMMY!!!!! PAPPY!!!!! PAPPY!!!!! MAMMY!!!
Who gives you your green eggs and hammy? MAMMY!
From Alabammy.
/ourguy/
Was Bing`s hero.
Jolson inspired many up an coming singers and entertainers back in the 50’s. Elvis among them.
Justin Trudeau at his best...
My cover of My Mammy
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Not only is it bad, it’s cringeworthy from the first moment.
I’d like to believe this wasn’t racist, but it’s just so wildly ignorant.
Then why did you bother to watch it, if it were cringeworthy?
@@lennon1252, because I've been reading about Al Jolson and I wanted to see it.
@@JoeKnows44
OK that's cool.
If you're reading about him you know he was not a racist. And he was promoting black music, used real black actors in his movies instead of white people wearing blackface and that he himself wore blackface because he was insecure. He was hiding himself as crazy as that sounds because at the time he was considered the world's greatest entertainer. Check out another one of my Jolson videos called Liza Lee and see what I'm talking about. No white performer in 1930 would ever pick up a black girl and dance with her. Peace out
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@@lennon1252, thanks. It seems he was a very complicated individual with a complicated legacy, but I can say that I haven't yet heard one credible account of him being hateful, malicious or intentionally racist.
What is most vexing to me is that for the most part, he was playing to audience of racists. People who wanted the music and sentimentality that Jolson delivered, but wouldn't accept it from a black performer.
Thanks for your work sharing history with so many of us.
@@JoeKnows44
You are 100% correct
White people even today do not give black people the credit they deserved.
Blacks fought in WWII and in the Vietnam War and they came home unable to eat in a white restaurant or go to a white bathroom.
And Elvis Presley had the same thing. He sang black music but folks excepted it because he was white. The Beatles sang black music and put it on the American racist radio stations. When they were touring down South they were horrified to see a rope in the audience. They asked why was there a rope? The owner of the venue said to separate the white and black kids. The Beatles especially John Lennon told the promoter that if he didn't take the rope down they wouldn't play. A lot of arguing with the manager but the Beatles held their ground. P.S. the rope was taken down.
True story ♥.
My little mammy 😂
Im coming, i hope i didn't make you wait 😂
It's your baby 🤣
No such talent today How great were the old days 😅
Justin Trudeau in the flesh.
Al Jolson HAD more TALENT in his LITTLE FINGER than Justine Trudeau does INTEGRITY.
Justin Trudea is a terrible person. Jolson was a saint compared to the Commie scum in 30s Hollywood.
@Caroline Woodward
Al Jolson was a wonderful person.
And yes, Hollywood has always been run by Communists.
@Caroline Woodward How old are you please?
@Caroline Woodward Thank You! I am 72, born a few weeks after Al Jolson passed. I cannot think of anybody else, who got me interested in singers, and musical movies, stage entertainment in general than Al Jolson. Hearing his voice on old 78 rpms, seeing the movies about him on TV, people taking him of, relatives etc, talking about him, or the movies about him, or the early talkies he was in. it, not instantly but eventually at a very young age, got me out of mud pies, cowboys and indians, and all those things pre teen boys are into. To me, because he gave it more than, others I heard very young, it I think influenced me to get into the rock and roll, when it happened. The likes of Frankie Laine,, Johnny Raye, Guy Mitchel were a sort of bridge from Jolson to rock and roll, because Jolson lived at a time popular music, and everything in general changed so much, due to new inventions coming along, and new and different ways of doing things, there is a lot of entertainment history there, and I have found it has helped me get into other artists, and different eras, ragtime, Jazz, Vaudeville, swing etc, prior to my own life time. When you carry the label of The World's Greatest Entertainer, more than anybody ever, although others have also had the title, it puts a burden on you, to be tops in everything, and comparisons on statistics, overall talents etc will be thrown up objectively, and of course there is always somebody/s that does some things better, than Jolson, or anybody,? or were more popular, for a longer period etc, but then there is other times it is vice versa. All indications are that in front of an audience, most always, Al Jolson just had a way of communication that totally broke down all barriers between artist and audience, particularly in legitimate theater, where he just really dominated shows, did as he liked, and really turned them into personal concerts of his own. No body has ever repeated that. There is brief examples of that. on some of his radio shows, and briefly hinted at in movies from time to time, However, the restrictions of time, working to plots etc. The free wheeling, come on everybody and lets just have a great time Al Jolson, was not possible unless live, and in real time, Still there is plenty to enjoy that has been preserved, and to me above all, it is the Singing. A Voice that has a sound all it's own, with variation over some 40 years, involving so much contrast and styles. I think also because Al Jolson was born in, and developed in a time that was completely non technically assisted, it gave him a way of selling a lyric, get the true full meaning from it, than those later more technically assisted. He of course did adjust and use technology to his advantage, and many of the songs he sang on radio in the late 1940's. that came out long before radio, are superb. Still with the pathos. melancholy of earlier times, but in a more updated style. Unfortunately somebody that passed now over 72 years ago, and who was the number one star in America beginning approx some 38/9 years prior, is going to carry a lot of baggage, just on the reality of the passage of time. Lots of people have passed on in all that time, People have found different idols in their own life times, and to most, it is a feeling of, a burden of not being accepted in the now, if they show any interest, or give any credence to anybody that just out dates them if they do. As I say Al Jolson, was not part of my own lifetime by a few weeks, but to me, that has never bothered me. I prefer to be true to myself, than just feel I am accepted, and go along with what appears to be what the majority do ,and although even when I was very young I learnt Al Jolson, even then, went back a long time, but all the years since that have have made no difference, when I hear him, or see him in a clip like a 80 something year old clip like this, his presence, impact, and sheer enjoyment it gives me, It to me, IS JUST LIKE HE IS ALIVE AGAIN! www.jolsdon.org aljolson.weebly.com. for links to much more.
th-cam.com/video/PK_TbgYjDtk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UP2JHqu2UoUcBWEW
To M Turner. What does Al Jolson religious preference hv 2 do with anything? U hv 2 explain tt one 2 me.
Al Jolson was white. So again, what does his religious preference hv 2 do with his race? Look up his birth certificate if it still exists. Or look up his race FM Ellis Island's immigration records when his parents arrived FM Latvia, or Lithuania, which were still part of the Russian Empire at that time, in the late 1880s.
So I do not get ur point. Anyway, tks 4 ur reply, hv a great day, and God bless U and ur family.😊
Mammy lives in my building on the fifth floor 5S 😂😂😂😂 👵🏿
My first time seeing anything by Al Jolson...yikes this is what they called entertainment back then!? Anything better by him, he's supposed to be a legend?
Thank god for 1924
Fred Sandford must have replaced mammy with Elizabeth and made it his own?
Was this Justin Trudeau in a past life.
Must have been an Ethiopian Jew.
F……controversy. I’m sick of hearing all this. He was an entertainer. The end. I love golliwogs too. How’s that for racist. The do gooders started all this rubbish. Yes take everything away from history with these great entertainers. 😮
horror total
Videos like this just go to show how there is nothing and never was anything wrong with so-called "blackface"... the petulent adult children who take offense to it are just whining to whine.
The Left r trash
Make fun of a jew and everyone loses their minds.
Nope! Still don't understand the purpose of black face.
@@donaldjacques7962 You are 100% correct. The History of white people wearing blackface goes back hundreds of years. It was used to demean black people. There was absolutely nothing positive about it. It was disgusting. The only thing I can tell you is, Al Jolson, a Lithuanian Jew, who knew all about hate, prejudice and antisemitism, NEVER wore blackface to demean or make fun of black people. He lived in an Era where it was the norm. Especially in Minstrel shows down south. This was the Era he lived in. Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and even Shirley Temple wore blackface. I never saw Jolson make fun of black people. It was he who used real black performers in his movies not white people wearing blackface. He was not a racist by any means. One day he was eating in a restaurant and 2 black men were eating with him and the owner came over and asked the black men to leave. Jolson told the owner if they have to leave, then I'm leaving too and not coming back. The owner let them stay.
True story. ☺
I’ve shat things with more talent.
Lol settle down
Seriously?
In that case you should eat it. Maybe some will rub off on you.
Considering he doesn't need voice modulation like 99% of 'performers' nowadays, I'd say that statement is quite false. lol
Be careful! It might get around your seen as OLD HAT! If people know you are on here!
if i were still a kid id go as this for halloween
Joe Biden in his younger days
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