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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Al Jolson Real Name Unknown First publication Unknown
- His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel". __TOC__
- Asa Yoelson (Seredzius (Lithuania), 26 May 1886 – San Francisco (USA), October 23, 1950), better known as Al Jolson, was a popular singer and a super star on Broadway, radio and film. He was born in Seredzius, Lithuania as a son of a Russian Jew. He is best known for his performance in the film The Jazz Singer in 1927. This was the first film with sound that had a great commercial success. His career on Broadway is second to none in terms of length, almost 30 years (from 1911 to 1940), and popularity.
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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Al Jolson Real Name Unknown First publication Unknown
- His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel". In the 1930s, he was America's most famous and highest paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Yet he's best remembered today for his leading role in the first (full length) talking movie ever made, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. He starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with the 1946 Oscar-winning biographical film, The Jolson Story. Larry Parks played Jolson with the songs dubbed in with Jolson’s real voice. A sequel, Jolson Sings Again, was released in 1949, and was nominated for three Oscars. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jolson became the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II, and again in 1950 became the first star to perform for GIs in Korea, doing forty-two shows in sixteen days. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, "Jolson was to jazz, blues, and ragtime what Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll". Being the first popular singer to make a spectacular "event" out of singing a song, he became a “rock star” before the dawn of rock music. His specialty was building stage runways extending out into the audience. He would run up and down the runway and across the stage, "teasing, cajoling, and thrilling the audience", often stopping to sing to individual members, all the while the "perspiration would be pouring from his face, and the entire audience would get caught up in the ecstasy of his performance". He enjoyed performing in blackface makeup – a theatrical convention in the early 20th century. With his unique and dynamic style of singing black music, like jazz and blues, he was later credited with single-handedly introducing African-American music to white audiences. As early as 1911 he became known for fighting against anti-black discrimination on Broadway. Jolson's well-known theatrics and his promotion of equality on Broadway helped pave the way for many black performers, playwrights, and songwriters, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Ethel Waters. __TOC__
- Asa Yoelson (Seredzius (Lithuania), 26 May 1886 – San Francisco (USA), October 23, 1950), better known as Al Jolson, was a popular singer and a super star on Broadway, radio and film. He was born in Seredzius, Lithuania as a son of a Russian Jew. He is best known for his performance in the film The Jazz Singer in 1927. This was the first film with sound that had a great commercial success. His career on Broadway is second to none in terms of length, almost 30 years (from 1911 to 1940), and popularity. Jolie, as he was called by his friends, was the first entertainer who had sold a million records. After leaving Broadway founded Jolson on radio performances. These were always in the top 10. Jolson made a great comeback in the history of show business when Columbia Pictures in 1946 a biographical film made about Jolson, The Jolson Story.In this film the role of Larry Parks played Jolson. The film was a commercial success (it was the movie with the highest yield since Gone with the Wind) and it led to a whole new generation enthralled by the voice and charisma of Jolson. In 1948 was Jolson in a poll voted the most popular male vocalist. He died on October 23, 1950 in San Francisco and is buried in the cemetery in the Hillside memorial park in Culver City, California. On the day he died, were to honor him the lights on Broadway for 10 minutes off.
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