Look up artist Jolson, Al
Name: Jolson, Al
Songs written or composed
Title: Back in Your Own Back Yard
Author: Jolson, Al
Additional song notes: From "Say it with Songs"
Recording:
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35327
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:59
Title: There's a Rainbow 'Round my Shoulder
Author: Jolson, Al
Additional song notes: From "The Singing Fool"
Recording:
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35329
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:43
Title: Sonny Boy
Author: Jolson, Al
Additional song notes: From The Singing Fool"
Recording:
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35330
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 3:14
Title: Anniversary Song (Jolson)
Author: Jolson, Al
Additional song notes: From "The Jolson Story"
Recording:
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35336
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:08
Other tracks with this artist
Title: You Made Me Love You
Author: Monaco, James V.
Additional song notes: From "The Honeymoon Express"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35323
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 4:56
Title: Swanee
Author: Gershwin, George
Additional song notes: From "Sinbad"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35324
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:32
Title: I'm Sitting on Top of the World
Author: Lewis, Sam M.
Additional song notes: From "The Singing Fool"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35325
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:29
Title: When the Red, Red Robin...
Author: Woods, Harry
Additional song notes: Full Title "When the Red, Red Robbin Catches Bob, Bobbin' Around," From A Plantation Act"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35326
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:33
Title: My Mammy (Jolson)
Author: Lewis, Sam M.
Additional song notes: From "Sinbad"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35328
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 3:10
Title: Let Me Sing, and I'm Happy
Author: Berlin, Irving
Additional song notes: From "
From "Mammy"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35331
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:35
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!
Author: Rodgers, Richard
Additional song notes: From "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35332
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 2:32
Title: April Showers
Author: DeSylva, B.G.
Additional song notes: From "Bombo"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35333
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 3:01
Title: Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
Author: Young, Joe
Additional song notes: From "Sinbad"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35334
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 3:17
Title: You Are Too Beautiful
Author: Rodgers, Richard
Additional song notes: From Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35335
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 3:24
Title: Toot, Toot, Tootsie!
Author: Kahn, Gus
Additional song notes: See "Goo'bye" From "Bombo"
On album: J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID: 35337
Artist: Jolson, Al
Language: English
Length: 1:39
Title: I Dream of Jeanie
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 6972
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, born like a...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: A Khazndl Af Shabos -- אַ חזנדל אױף שבּת
Also known as: A Khazn Oyf Shabos
Also known as: A Khazndl Oyf Shabes
Genre: Folk/Humorous
Subject: Khazunim/Cantors/Audition/Occupation/Shtetl
Origin: ML MTAG 108/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 77
Transliteration: ML MTAG 108/Alb J-020(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Vinkov 3 4/CD A-005(e)/Silverman YSB 77
Translation: Silverman YSB 76/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/A-005(e)
Music: ML MTAG 108/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 76
Additional song notes: Tansliteration and Translation also published in Gottlieb p. 22
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 320
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Bring, Lou, Orch Cond
First line: Iz gekomen tsuforn a khazn in a kleyn shtetele davenen a...
First line (Yiddish):איז געקומען צופֿאָרן אַ חזן אין אַ קלײן שטעטעלע דאַװענען אַ שבּת,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Title: A Khazndl Af Shabos -- אַ חזנדל אױף שבּת
Also known as: A Khazn Oyf Shabos
Also known as: A Khazndl Oyf Shabes
Genre: Folk/Humorous
Subject: Khazunim/Cantors/Audition/Occupation/Shtetl
Origin: ML MTAG 108/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 77
Transliteration: ML MTAG 108/Alb J-020(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Vinkov 3 4/CD A-005(e)/Silverman YSB 77
Translation: Silverman YSB 76/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/A-005(e)
Music: ML MTAG 108/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 76
Additional song notes: Tansliteration and Translation also published in Gottlieb p. 22
On album: S-047(a) (Shalom Music of the Jewish People)
Track ID: 330
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Bring, Lou, Orch Cond
Artist: Binder, Abraham Wolf
First line: Iz gekomen tsuforn a khazn in a kleyn shtetele davenen a...,
First line (Yiddish):איז געקומען צופֿאָרן אַ חזן אין אַ קלײן שטעטעלע דאַװענען אַ שבּת,
Language: Yiddish
Title: Beautiful Dreamer
Author: Foster, Stephen
Composer: Foster, Stephen
Genre: Folk/American
Subject: Courtship/Dreamer/Melody/Cares/Waken
Related information in folder 699:- Comments: 1. Text from the internet
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 2163
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me, starlight and dewdrops...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: English
Title: De Camptown Races (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 2947
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Oh, de Camptown ladies sing dis song, do da, do da,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Hatikva -- התקוה
Author: Imber, Naftali Herz -- אימבּר, נפתלי ה.
Genre: Anthem/Zionist
Subject: Hope
Song Comment: Yiddish Translation Ephemera 455
Origin: Netzer 5/Alb G-056(b)/Coopersmith SOZ 229/Metro Scher 31/Metro Album 36
Transliteration: Netzer 5/Alb G-056(b)/Alb S-092(a)/Alb B-067(a)/Vorbei 426/Metro Scher 28/
Translation: Alb B-067(a)/Alb J-007(a)/Alb S-092(a)/Vorbei 426/Binder 40
Music: Netzer 5/Coopersmith SOZ 229/Metro Scher 28/Binder 40/
Additional song notes: Remember that text changed after establishment of the State of -
Israel. See Heskes 1, index for various entries respecting sheet -
musi/ See also Vorbei 211 and 426 for history of the song. One Samuel Cohen set the text to a Moldavian Melody, "Carul ca Boi" (The Wagon and the Ox).
Related information in folder 410:- Document type: Article
Author: Isacaar Fater
Publisher: Yiddish Forward
Date: January 05, 2001
Comments: Article titled, "Vi Azoy Hatikva Iz Gevorn Der Himen Fun Folk Un Medina".
- Document type: Text
Author: Berele Chagy
Comments: 2. Yiddish adaptation by Berele Chagy published in Yiddishe Folks Lieder, Berlin, 1918.
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 6188
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Rady, Simon, choral dir
First line: Kol od balevav penima, Nefesh yehudi homiya, Ulfa'atey...
First line:כּל עוֹד בּלבב פּנימה, נפש יהוּדי הוֹמיה. וּלפאתי מזרח קדימה עין...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "So long as still within our breasts, The Jewish heart..."
Title: In Our House (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 7412
Artist: Russell, Benee
Artist: Jolson, Al / Martin Fried
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Stoloff, Morris, orch dir
First line: In our we greet the morning sun, in our house we have our...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Israel (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 7518
Artist: Russell, Benee
Artist: Rady, Simon, chorus dir
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Lift your voice, let us rejoice. Our dream was not in vain.
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Melody based on "Khusn, Kale, Mazltov"
Title: Jolson, Al (Eng)
On album: R-024(a) (Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen A Montage/Documentary)
Track ID: 7673
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Willens, Rita Jacobs
Track comment: From "Fifty Years Of Film" Warner Bros 3XX 2737
Title: Kol Nidre -- כּל נדרי
Genre: Religious/Liturgical/Yom Kipur
Subject: Vows
Origin: Alb B-033(i)
Translation: Alb R-009(b)/Alb B-026(b)/Alb B-033(b)/V0121
Related information in folder 779:- Comments: 1. English Translation
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 8576
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Bring, Lou, dir choir and orch
First line (Hebrew):כּל נדרי ואסרי וחרמי וקוֹנמי וכנוּיי ןקנוּסי וּשבוּעוֹת דנדרנא
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Hebrew
Title: Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 9818
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Round de meadows am a ringin, de old...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Old Folks At Home (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 11427
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: All round de little farm I wandered when I was young,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: My Old Kentucky Home (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 10842
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: The sun shines bright in de old kentucky home, tis summer...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Oh Susannah (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 11409
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Oh, I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee, I gwine...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Old Black Joe (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 11423
Artist: Foster, Stephen
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Gone are de days when my heart was young and gay,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Remember Mother's Day (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 12711
Artist: Violinsky, Solly
Artist: Ryan, Ben
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Schoen, Vic, orch and choral dir
Artist: Akst, Harry
First line: There are many Sundays in the year, but the best one comes..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: A Khazndl Af Shabos -- אַ חזנדל אױף שבּת
Also known as: A Khazn Oyf Shabos
Also known as: A Khazndl Oyf Shabes
Genre: Folk/Humorous
Subject: Khazunim/Cantors/Audition/Occupation/Shtetl
Origin: ML MTAG 108/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 77
Transliteration: ML MTAG 108/Alb J-020(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Vinkov 3 4/CD A-005(e)/Silverman YSB 77
Translation: Silverman YSB 76/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/A-005(e)
Music: ML MTAG 108/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 76
Additional song notes: Tansliteration and Translation also published in Gottlieb p. 22
On album: G-055(a) (Radio Compilation by David Goldenberg 1930-1960)
Track ID: 20567
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Iz gekomen tsuforn a khazn in a kleyn shtetele davenen a...
First line (Yiddish):איז געקומען צופֿאָרן אַ חזן אין אַ קלײן שטעטעלע דאַװענען אַ שבּת,
Track comment: Recorded Dec 20, 1932
Language: Yiddish
Title: Lovely Face (Eng, Libes Ponem) -- ליבעס פּנים (ענג)
On album: S-047(b) (Mazel Tov! More Music Of The Jewish People)
Track ID: 21425
Artist: Hersher/ Lewin/ H. Jolson
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: We met one night beneath the stars, we danced to music of...
Title: Israel (Eng)
On album: L-047(a) (L'Chaim Music of the Jewish People)
Track ID: 26543
Artist: Russell, Benee
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: Lift your voice, let us rejoice. Our dream was not in vain.
Track comment: Recorded 1948 - To melody of Khusn Kale Mazletov
Title: Hatikva -- התקוה
Author: Imber, Naftali Herz -- אימבּר, נפתלי ה.
Genre: Anthem/Zionist
Subject: Hope
Song Comment: Yiddish Translation Ephemera 455
Origin: Netzer 5/Alb G-056(b)/Coopersmith SOZ 229/Metro Scher 31/Metro Album 36
Transliteration: Netzer 5/Alb G-056(b)/Alb S-092(a)/Alb B-067(a)/Vorbei 426/Metro Scher 28/
Translation: Alb B-067(a)/Alb J-007(a)/Alb S-092(a)/Vorbei 426/Binder 40
Music: Netzer 5/Coopersmith SOZ 229/Metro Scher 28/Binder 40/
Additional song notes: Remember that text changed after establishment of the State of -
Israel. See Heskes 1, index for various entries respecting sheet -
musi/ See also Vorbei 211 and 426 for history of the song. One Samuel Cohen set the text to a Moldavian Melody, "Carul ca Boi" (The Wagon and the Ox).
Related information in folder 410:- Document type: Article
Author: Isacaar Fater
Publisher: Yiddish Forward
Date: January 05, 2001
Comments: Article titled, "Vi Azoy Hatikva Iz Gevorn Der Himen Fun Folk Un Medina".
- Document type: Text
Author: Berele Chagy
Comments: 2. Yiddish adaptation by Berele Chagy published in Yiddishe Folks Lieder, Berlin, 1918.
On album: 037k (Jolson, Al/ Hatikva/ Israel)
Track ID: 29871
Artist: Jolson, Al
Title: Israel
On album: 037k (Jolson, Al/ Hatikva/ Israel)
Track ID: 29872
Artist: Jolson, Al
Title: Tomorrow Is Another Day
Author: Green
Composer: Stept
Genre: Pop/Vaudeville
Subject: Optomism/Adversity
On album: F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID: 28539
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: I don't mind a little bit of sorrow, and I know how to face it with a smile,
Track comment: Originally recorded 1930/ Unknown Orchestra
Language: English
Style: Theatrical
Title: Hooray For Baby And Me
Genre: Vaudeville/Theatre
Subject: Love
On album: F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID: 28540
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: I'm as happy as I can be, can't you see, I'm boo boo, something happened to...
Track comment: Originally Recorded Sept 1930/ Unknow Orchestra
Language: English
Style: Dixieland
Title: Hebrew Chant
Composer: Young, Victor
Genre: Classical
On album: 015e (Young Victor/ Jolson, Al/ Hebrew Chant/ The Cantor)
Track ID: 29215
Artist: Young, Victor
Artist: Jolson, Al
Title: The Cantor
On album: 015e (Young Victor/ Jolson, Al/ Hebrew Chant/ The Cantor)
Track ID: 29216
Artist: Young, Victor
Artist: Jolson, Al
Title: A Khazendl Oyf Shabos
On album: G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID: 31679
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Caesar, Irving
Artist: Katscher, Robert
First line: S'iz gekumen a khazn in a kleyn shtetele, tsu davenen a shabos,
Language: Yiddish
Style: Cantorial/Adonay Malakh Mode
Length: 1:30
Title: A Khazndl Af Shabos -- אַ חזנדל אױף שבּת
Also known as: A Khazn Oyf Shabos
Also known as: A Khazndl Oyf Shabes
Genre: Folk/Humorous
Subject: Khazunim/Cantors/Audition/Occupation/Shtetl
Origin: ML MTAG 108/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 77
Transliteration: ML MTAG 108/Alb J-020(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Vinkov 3 4/CD A-005(e)/Silverman YSB 77
Translation: Silverman YSB 76/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/A-005(e)
Music: ML MTAG 108/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 76
Additional song notes: Tansliteration and Translation also published in Gottlieb p. 22
On album: Z-025(a) (Las Canciones Del Zeide)
Track ID: 32649
Artist: Jolson, Al
First line: S'iz gekumen a khazn in a kleyn shtetele, tsu davenen a shabos,
First line (Yiddish):ס'איז געקומען אַ חזן אין אַ קליין שטעטעלע צו דאַווענען אַ שבת,
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
Length: 4:05
Title: From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video)
Genre: Documentary/Show Business
Subject: Immigration/Integration/Music/Acculturation/Music/Persona
On album: V0147 (From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video))
Track ID: 35728
Artist: Brice, Fanny
Artist: Calloway, Cab
Artist: Cantor, Eddie
Artist: Garland, Judy
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Marx Brothers
Artist: Picon, Molly -- פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Artist: Schwartz, Maurice
Artist: Tucker, Sophie
Artist: Berlin, Irving
Artist: Fierstein, Harvey
Language: English
Style: Narrative/Performances/Spoken Word
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu