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Al Jolson - Decca Years 1945-1950 [CD]

Al Jolson - Decca Years 1945-1950 [CD]

Release Date: /// Sepia Recordings

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N 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

Tracklist:

  1. Swanee
  2. April Showers
  3. Ma Blushin? Rosie
  4. My Mammy
  5. You Made Me Love You
  6. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
  7. California, Here I Come
  8. Sonny Boy
  9. Avalon 1
  10. Anniversary Song 1
  11. Alexander's Ragtime Band 1
  12. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life 1
  13. All My Love 1
  14. Keep Smiling at Trouble 1
  15. Back in Your Own Backyard 1
  16. I'm Sitting on Top of the World 1
  17. Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow 1
  18. Toot, Toot Tootsie! 1
  19. Carolina in the Morning 2
  20. Liza 2
  21. For Me and My Gal 2
  22. About a Quarter to Nine 2
  23. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee 2
  24. Golden Gate 2
  25. When You Were Sweet Sixteen 2
  26. There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder 2
  27. If I Only Had a Match 2
  28. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy 2
  29. I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) 3
  30. By the Light of the Silvery Moon 3
  31. I Wish I Had a Girl 3
  32. When I Leave the World Behind 3
  33. Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone 3
  34. When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along 3
  35. Kol Nidre 3
  36. Cantor on the Sabbath 3
  37. Hatikvoh 3
  38. Israel 3
  39. Down Among the Sheltering Palms 4
  40. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? 4
  41. I'm Crying Just for You 4
  42. I Only Have Eyes for You 4
  43. That Wonderful Girl of Mine 4
  44. In Our House 4
  45. Pretty Baby 4
  46. Medley: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover/Baby Face 4
  47. Chinatown, My Chinatown 4
  48. After You've Gone 4
  49. It All Depends on You 5
  50. Give My Regards to Broadway 5
  51. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? 5
  52. I'm Just Wild About Harry 5
  53. (Just One Way to Say) I Love You 5
  54. Paris Wakes Up and Smiles 5
  55. Some Enchanted Evening 5
  56. Let's Go West Again 5
  57. God's Country 5
  58. Remember Mother's Day 5
  59. My Mother's Rosary 6
  60. The Old Piano Roll Blues 6
  61. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 6
  62. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 6
  63. No Sad Songs for Me 6
  64. Old Black Joe 6
  65. My Old Kentucky Home 6
  66. Beautiful Dreamer 6
  67. Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground 6
  68. Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) 6
  69. I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 7
  70. Oh! Susannah 7
  71. De Camptown Races 7
  72. Swanee (Alternative Take) 7
  73. You Made Me Love You (Alternative Take) 7
  74. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Incomplete Take) 7
  75. California, Here I Come (Alternative Take) 7
  76. About a Quarter to Nine (Alternative Take) 7
  77. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (Alternative Take) 7
  78. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (Alternative Take) 7
  79. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Solo Version) 8
  80. Alabamy Bound (Previously Unreleased)

UPC: 5055122113430
Label: SEPIA RECORDINGS
Release Date: 9.13.19
Format: CD

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