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
1 I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
2 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
3 I Wish I Had a Girl
4 When I Leave the World Behind
5 Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone
6 When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
7 Kol Nidre
8 Cantor on the Sabbath
9 Hatikvoh
10 Israel
11 Down Among the Sheltering Palms
12 Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
13 I'm Crying Just for You
14 I Only Have Eyes for You
15 That Wonderful Girl of Mine
16 In Our House
17 Pretty Baby
18 Medley: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover/Baby Face
19 Chinatown, My Chinatown
20 After You've Gone
21 It All Depends on You
22 Give My Regards to Broadway
23 Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
24 I'm Just Wild About Harry
25 (Just One Way to Say) I Love You
26 Paris Wakes Up and Smiles
- Disc 3 -
1 Some Enchanted Evening
2 Let's Go West Again
3 God's Country
4 Remember Mother's Day
5 My Mother's Rosary
6 The Old Piano Roll Blues
7 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
8 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
9 No Sad Songs for Me
10 Old Black Joe
11 My Old Kentucky Home
12 Beautiful Dreamer
13 Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground
14 Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)
15 I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
16 Oh! Susannah
17 De Camptown Races
18 Swanee (Alternative Take)
19 You Made Me Love You (Alternative Take)
20 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Incomplete Take)
21 California, Here I Come (Alternative Take)
22 About a Quarter to Nine (Alternative Take)
23 Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (Alternative Take)
24 Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (Alternative Take)
25 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Solo Version)
26 Alabamy Bound (Previously Unreleased)
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
