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Lyrics by Al Jolson

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  1. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
  2. All alone
  3. Golden gate
  4. Sonny boy
  5. Swanee
  6. The anniversary song
  7. Angel child
  8. Anniversary Song
  9. April Showers
  10. At peace with the world
  11. Avalon
  12. Back to the Carolina you love
  13. Blue river
  14. California, Here I Come
  15. Dirty hands, dirty face
  16. Down where the Swanee River flows
  17. Follow the swallow
  18. From here to Shanghai
  19. Give me my mammy
  20. Give my regards to Broadway
  21. Hallelujah, I'm a bum
  22. Hello central, give me no man's land
  23. Hello, Tucky
  24. I Only Have Eyes For You
  25. I wish I had my old gal back again
  26. I wonder what's become of Sally
  27. I'd climb the highest mountain
  28. I'm all abound round with the Mason Dixon Line
  29. I'm in the seventh heaven
  30. I've got my Captain working for me now
  31. Let me sing and I'm happy
  32. Little pal
  33. Liza All The Clouds'll Roll Away
  34. Ma Blushin' Rose
  35. Mammy
  36. Mother, I still have you
  37. Mr. Radio Man
  38. My Mammy
  39. Of Flowers
  40. Oh, you beautiful doll
  41. Ol' man river
  42. One I love belongs to somebody else
  43. Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody
  44. Shine On Harvest Moon
  45. Stella
  46. The Spaniard that blighted my life
  47. There's a rainbow 'round my shoulder
  48. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Good Bye
  49. When the Red Red Robin
  50. Where did Robinson Crusoe go
  51. Yaaka hula hickey du la
  52. You Made Me Love You

Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, Yiddish: אַסאַ יואלסאָן; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, and was self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". Jolson was known for his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach" towards performing, as well as for popularizing many of the songs he sang. Jolson has been referred to by modern critics as "the king of blackface performers". Jolson was the first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America. His marginal status as a Jew informed his blackface portrayal of Southern blacks. Almost single-handedly, Jolson helped to introduce African-American musical innovations like jazz, ragtime, and the blues to white audiences. Although best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), he starred in a series of successful musical films during the 1930s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with The Jolson Story (1946), in which Larry Parks played the younger Jolson, but with sung vocals dubbed by Jolson himself. The formula was repeated in a sequel, Jolson Sings Again (1949). In 1950, he again became the first star to entertain GIs on active service in the Korean War, performing 42 shows in 16 days. He died weeks after returning to the U.S., partly owing to the physical exhaustion from the performance schedule. Defense Secretary George Marshall posthumously awarded him the Medal for Merit. According to music historian Larry Stempel, "No one had heard anything quite like it before on Broadway." Stephen Banfield wrote that Jolson's style was "arguably the single most important factor in defining the modern musical." With his dynamic style of singing, he became widely successful by extracting traditionally African-American music and popularizing it for white American audiences who would be unwilling to listen to it when performed by black artists. Despite his promotion and perpetuation of black stereotypes, his work was often well-regarded by black publications and has been credited for fighting against black discrimination on Broadway as early as 1911. In an essay written in 2000, music critic Ted Gioia remarked, "If blackface has its shameful poster boy, it is Al Jolson", showcasing Jolson's complex legacy in American society.

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