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 "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach."
For the first time a 3-CD Al Jolson set containing the master takes of every one of his 1945-1950 Decca recordings (his last commercial recordings) with a total of 71 selections in chronological order and with recording details. Also includes previously unreleased material including alternative takes.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Swanee
- April Showers
- Ma Blushin' Rosie
- My Mammy
- You Made Me Love You
- Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
- California, Here I Come
- Sonny Boy
- Avalon
- Anniversary Song
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
- All My Love
- Keep Smiling At Trouble
- Back in Your Own Backyard
- I'm Sitting On Top of the World
- Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow
- Toot, Toot Tootsie! (Goodbye)
- Carolina in the Morning
- Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
- For Me and My Gal
- About a Quarter to Nine
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
- Golden Gate
- When You Were Sweet Sixteen
- There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
- If I Only Had a Match
- Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
Disc 2:
- I Want A Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon
- I Wish I Had a Girl
- When I Leave the World Behind
- Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone
- When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
- Kol Nidre
- Cantor On the Sabbath
- Hatikvoh
- Israel
- Down Among the Sheltering Palms
- Is It True What They Say About Dixie'
- I'm Crying Just for You
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- That Wonderful Girl of Mine
- In Our House
- Pretty Baby
- I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover / Baby Face
- Chinatown, My Chinatown
- After You've Gone
- It All Depends On You
- Give My Regards to Broadway
- Is It True What They Say About Dixie'
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- (Just One Way to Say) I Love You
- Paris Wakes Up and Smiles
Disc 3:
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Let's Go West Again
- God's Country
- Remember Mother's Day
- My Mother's Rosary
- The Old Piano Roll Blues
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- Are You Lonesome Tonight'
- No Sad Songs for Me
- Old Black Joe
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground
- Old Folks At Home
- I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
- Oh! Susanna
- De Camptown Races
- Swanee (alternative take)
- You Made Me Love You (alternative take)
- Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Alternative take)
- California, Here I Come (alternative take)
- About a Quarter to Nine (alternative take)
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (alternative take)
- Is It True What They Say About Dixie' (alternative take)
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (solo version previously unreleased)
- Alabamy Bound (previously unreleased)
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