You can listen to this just-released California by clicking here (where you can download for $0.99 or listen for free by scrolling to the bottom).
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You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet: The Al Jolson Project
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The Al Jolson Project: Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away)
Ruby Keeler
A song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn, it was introduced in 1929 by Ruby Keeler in Florenz Ziegfeld’s musical Show Girl. The stage performances were accompanied by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. On the show’s opening night, Keeler’s husband Al Jolson suddenly stood up from his seat in the third row and sang a chorus of the song, much to the surprise of the audience and Gershwin himself. Jolson later recorded the song, and his rendition rose to number nine on the charts.
In the latest installment of the Entertainment Plus Creations Al Jolson Project, Larry DeAngelo sings this somewhat lesser-known gem from the Jolson legacy. You can listen to this just-released Liza by clicking here (where you can download for $0.99 or listen for free by scrolling to the bottom).
For more information about the Al Jolson Project:
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet: The Al Jolson Project
Holiday special: Kol Nidre – The Al Jolson Project
Al Jolson in the 20’s movie “The Jazz Singer”, singing Kol Nidre
Just in time for the Jewish High Holy Days, the Entertainment Plus Creations Al Jolson Project releases its recording of tenor Kevin Hanek singing Kol Nidre.
NASHVILLE, TENN, UNITED STATES, October 2, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ — Central to The Al Jolson Story is the scene in the 1927 “talkie” in which the Jazz Singer leads one of the holiest prayers in the Jewish religion as his cantor father listens from his deathbed across the street from the synagogue.
In this first full-length movie featuring synchronized sound, electrified theatergoers actually got to hear Jolson as he sang melodies like My Gal Sal and Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Then, as his father lay on his deathbed across the street from the synagogue, the musical mode switches from pop tunes of the day to a 1,300-year standard, as the rebellious Jazz Singer sings the Kol Nidre. “We have our son back,“ are the cantors last words.
To fill out this key musical component of the Al Jolson catalog, The Al Jolson Project has recruited heldentenor Kevin Hanek, who on Sept. 30 recorded his own Kol Nidre accompanied by Kathy Geary on the piano. Continue reading
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet: The Al Jolson Project
Singer Larry DeAngelo, interpreter of the Great American Songbook, embarks on his latest project: Covering the long-neglected work of the Jazz Singer, Al Jolson
NASHVILLE, TN, USA, July 2, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ — If you occasionally find yourself humming old standards like April Showers and California, Here I Come, maybe you don’t need the latest Larry DeAngelo project… Read more