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Al Jolson

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Aliases
Al Jolson with Orchestra
Real name
Asa Yoelson
Born
May 26, 1886
Died
October 23, 1950
Country
United States
IPI
00015453015 25 works
15453015 2 works
Affiliation
ASCAP, DP
Comments
Singer, songwriter, comedian and actor, self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". Although best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), Jolson has been referred to by modern critics as "the king of blackface performers".
Family
Ruby Keeler Wife (1928-1939)
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Covers by Al Jolson

Title Performer Release date Originally by
listen on Internet Archive   1948 Jack Shilkret and His Orchestra REC, Al Jolson BRD
February 1917 Nora Bayes
1958 William Ching and Annamary Dickey
September 5, 1949 Campbell and Burr
  April 1947 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
December 1924 John Steel and Ruth Thomas
July 1962 John Steel and Ruth Thomas
June 1947 (unknown)
Covered by (5 artists)
  1958 Frankie Carle and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Gregg Lawrence REL, Dick Haymes and Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra REC
 REC November 1946 (unknown), Anita Ellis and Harry Geller's Concert Orchestra REL
Covered by (44 artists)
1950 Charles Hart [US]
  1958 Bert Kaplan and His Collegians REC, George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger, Fran Frey, Bob Rice REL
listen on Internet Archive 1920 Emilio De Marchi
Covered by (161 artists)
1975 Ruth Etting
August 1947 Ruth Etting
1928 Ruth Etting
January 1951 (unknown)
1928 The Harmonizers
November 1948 Billy Murray and Haydn Qartet with Orchestra
August 1947 Willie & Eugene Howard
September 5, 1949 Grace Kerns and J. B. Wells
1958 Grace Kerns and J. B. Wells
listen on Internet Archive 1923 (unknown)
Dames Al Jolson 1978 Unverified
January 1951 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1928 (unknown)
July 1962 (unknown)
1949 Lyric Quartet
Follow The Swallow Al Jolson with Carl Fenton's Orchestra 1924 Unverified
1948 M.J. O'Connell
February 1928 Mark Fisher with Piano by Ted Shapiro
From Here to Shanghai Al Jolson June 1917 Unverified
September 5, 1949 George M. Cohan
1948 (unknown), (unknown)
1924 Bennie Krueger's Orchestra
  July 1962 Adelaide Hall PRF, Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators – Vocal Chorus by Al Shayne REC
January 1951 Lambert Murphy
listen on Internet Archive 1926 Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone)
listen on Internet Archive   January 1948 Louis Prima and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Cathy Allen, Louis Prima and Chorus REL, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal by Bill Lawrence REC
  1958 Janette Davis and Jerry Wayne REL, Bill Callahan, Betty Jane Watson and Ensemble PRF
I'll Be Seeing You Al Jolson 1959 Unverified
February 1918 Irving Kaufman
listen on Internet Archive   1924 Eph Hanaford's Broadway Orchestra (Joseph Samuels) REC, Al Jolson PRF
  April 1924 Eph Hanaford's Broadway Orchestra (Joseph Samuels) REC, Al Jolson PRF
September 5, 1949 Lottie Gee and Chorus
listen on Internet Archive September 5, 1949 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Billy Jones, Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Benny Davis
1926 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall
listen on Internet Archive August 1947 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall
July 1962 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive September 5, 1949 Dick Powell
  1949 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberle REL, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
  September 5, 1949 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberle REL, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
  July 1962 John W. Bubbles PRF, Lawrence Tibbett REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive 1949 Al Jolson
1919 Billy Murray
listen on Internet Archive 1948 The Peerless Quartet
November 1948 Manuel Romain
listen on Internet Archive 1926 Irving Kaufman
1924 Joe Schenck
1958 Joe Schenck
listen on Internet Archive June 1924 The Brox Sisters
July 1947 The Brox Sisters
listen on Internet Archive January 1948 Al Jolson
  August 1929 Sammy Fain REC, Nick Lucas and Ruby Keeler BRD
  August 1947 Sammy Fain REC, Nick Lucas and Ruby Keeler BRD
1958 Rega Dance Orchestra (Fred Hager)
July 1962 Fay Templeton
January 1951 Geo J. Gaskin
1958 Walter Scanlan (Walter Van Brunt) REC,REL, William Frawley PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
January 1926 The Ambassadors under direction of Louis Katzman
1924 Lewis James
William Frawley
listen on Internet Archive 1928 William Frawley
January 1951 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1924 Isham Jones Orchestra
January 1951 (unknown)
January 1951 The Banda Rossa
January 1951 Len Spencer
  1928 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
  1958 Jose Collins PRF, Charles Harrison [US] REC,REL
July 1962 Elizabeth Spencer
listen on Internet Archive September 5, 1949 Emerson Military Band
July 1918 Jockers Brothers
July 1962 Jockers Brothers
July 1962 Miss Walton and Mr. Macdonough
1915 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive July 1920 Ernest Hare
listen on Internet Archive   1949 Ezio Pinza PRF, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REC
1923 William West (Billy Jones [US1])
listen on Internet Archive April 1920 Jos. Samuels Dance Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive December 1919 Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orch. under personal direction of Jos. Knecht
That Old Gang of Mine Al Jolson Unverified
April 1949 Isa Kremer PRF, Seymour Rechtzeit REL, Moishe Oysher and Florence Weiss REC,BRD
Covered by (3 artists)
The Best Things in Life Are Free Al Jolson 1958 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1950 (unknown)
April 1924 Isham Jones Orchestra
July 1962 Isham Jones Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive   1948 Al Jolson REL,BRD, All Star Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret) REC
April 1947 Mr. Billy Merson
The Spaniard That Blighted My Life Al Jolson April 1913 Unverified
To My Mammy Al Jolson 1930 Unverified
  August 1947 Al Jolson PRF,REC
listen on Internet Archive August 1923 Marion Harris
listen on Internet Archive August 1947 Al Jolson
July 1962 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1950 Margaret Young
  1958 Grace Moore & John Steel PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC
listen on Internet Archive 1948 Sam Ash
July 1962 Chauncey Olcott
July 1926 Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone)
1948 Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone)
August 1947 George J. Gaskin
1958 Al Jolson
listen on Internet Archive 1948 (unknown)
  1958 Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra REL, Ray Miller's Black and White Melody Boys REC
  1923 Al Jolson PRF, Eddie Elkins' Orchestra REC
1916 (unknown)
  January 1922 Al Jolson PRF, The Happy Six REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive September 1913 William J. Halley

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