NOUN
- United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950)
How To Use Al Jolson In A Sentence
- Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
- He synched sound with film long before a singing Al Jolson wowed film audiences in 1927.
- Film had been successfully synchronized to sound by 1927, when The Jazz Singer premiered with music chosen and performed by Al Jolson.
- Rebecca Nicholson"You ain't heard nothin' yet," proclaimed Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927, heralding the end of the silent era in movie-making. Tonight's TV highlights: Love Your Garden | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Santana Story | Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood | Isle Of Wight Festival 2011 | In Treatment
- Though most of the film was silent, when Al Jolson opened his mouth to sing, his own voice actually filled the theater.
- To raise money for Breast Cancer Research, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Great North Air Ambulance, Coun Armstrong, known as Binky, is to hold a concert at The Wave Centre in Maryport with an Al Jolson flavour. T&S news feed
- Jerry Lee often said that pop music had produced only four supreme stylists: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and himself.
- Rebecca Nicholson"You ain't heard nothin' yet," proclaimed Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927, heralding the end of the silent era in movie-making. Tonight's TV highlights: Love Your Garden | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Santana Story | Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood | Isle Of Wight Festival 2011 | In Treatment
