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 ...

Richard Bernstein's biography charts Jolson's success and addresses the reviled practice of blackface that helped to make ...

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 ...

This is Alabama recently asked its followers what their favorite song about Alabama is, and just as we suspected, there’s ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie with talking actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927.

Awkward black-face aside, the story of Al Jolson was the first "talkie," giving then-movie audiences an experience on par with the first time we saw fully-realized CG dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

For a complete list of funders for the PBS NewsHour ... Harding, vaudeville movie star and singer Al Jolson wrote a song especially for him. Harding, you're the man for us. MAN: And Mr. Harding ...

The fall to-do list is long: There are apples to be picked ... that first used the nickname Sonny Boy. It comes from an Al Jolson song she used to sing to him. The book digs deep into old memories ...