For the first time a 3-CD Al Jolson set containing the master takes of every one of his 1945-1950 Decca recordings.

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)

Additional Details

Label: Sepia Records

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 150 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 09/13/19

UPC: 5055122113430