Al Jolson----"About A Quarter To Nine"

From The 1935 Movie "Go Into Your Dance"

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• The World's Greatest Entertainer

[oristhaz101]

Im 14 Yers Old and African American (If It Affects Anyone Which It Highly Might Not) And I Admire The Man Singing -Al Jolson- Because His Vocal Talents And His Attributon To The African American Society Back Then During The Jim Crow Era. In This Day And Age,Its Hard For Someone Like Me To Find Music Without The "Sagging Jeans,Grills,Money,Cars,Clothe­s,Hoes,Dance Anthems" But I Do...Such As Gene Kelly..Arthur Alexander..Jackie Wilson..And Now..Al Jolson. :)

[hhwatkinson]

Jolson really was "The Greatest entertainer of them ALL!"

[SatchmoSings]

I'm sick 'n' tired of people complaining about Jolson in blackface; it was an accepted performance standard of the time and Jolson himself, as big an egomaniac and even outright bastard that ever walked the boards (ask Ruby Keeler), didn't have a racist bone in his body and in fact, generally tried to be overall helpful and many times "went to bat" for black entertainers and black people in general.

Al Jolson was not a great human being but he certainly was no racist; no way; absolutely not.

[SatchmoSings]

Great Warren-Dubin tune and I loved the special effects, too.

Also, in the beginning of the clip, where he's in close-up, Jolson is singing "sound-on-set," a practice that had certainly, by 1935, had largely been replaced by pre-recording.

But not for Jolson, oh no; the man undoubtedly INSISTED that he be recorded singing, live, right on the soundstage in the opening; terrific!!!

Jolson was not a great human being, far from it. But he was "The World's Greatest Entertainer," no question.

[J2Fishing]

Al Jolson is rolling over in his sacred grace because of the god awful music that exists today.

[rogharm]

love this post with the movie. great musical arrangement a 30's arrangement love it. rated highest 11+. ROGHARM thank you poster!!! never expected these gems.

[dztillman]

I Have To Memorize Part Of This Song & Sing It For My Musical Theater Performance Class

[HueyRocks23]

@oristhaz101 - Your comment looks like the title of a Fall Out Boy song. :D

[mortyfromc]

@oristhaz101 I guess I was about 12 when I discovered Al Jolson. His singing was something like I had never heard before. I loved it then and still do these many many years later. Jackie Wilson was one of the most talented performers of this or anyother era. You have chosen some real artists.

[106bobkat]

this is as good as it gets. no one can imitate jolson.

[rosieyposie7]

do you know that I think JOLSON knew just how to film

his MUSICAL numbers in the 1930s

it even works with his other MUSICAL numbers@ my above mixes,

check it out!!!

[ShaneKarma376]

Al Jolson didn't perform in blackface black people perform in Al Jolsonface! - Shane Fair