Al Jolson - Decca Years 1945-1950 (CD)

N 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 List:

Disc: 1

1. Swanee
2. April Showers
3. Ma Blushin? Rosie
4. My Mammy
5. You Made Me Love You
6. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
7. California, Here I Come
8. Sonny Boy
9. Avalon
10. Anniversary Song
11. Alexander's Ragtime Band
12. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
13. All My Love
14. Keep Smiling at Trouble
15. Back in Your Own Backyard
16. I'm Sitting on Top of the World
17. Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow
18. Toot, Toot Tootsie!
19. Carolina in the Morning
20. Liza
21. For Me and My Gal
22. About a Quarter to Nine
23. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
24. Golden Gate
25. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
26. There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
27. If I Only Had a Match
28. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy

Disc: 2

1. I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
2. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
3. I Wish I Had a Girl
4. When I Leave the World Behind
5. Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone
6. When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
7. Kol Nidre
8. Cantor on the Sabbath
9. Hatikvoh
10. Israel
11. Down Among the Sheltering Palms
12. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
13. I'm Crying Just for You
14. I Only Have Eyes for You
15. That Wonderful Girl of Mine
16. In Our House
17. Pretty Baby
18. Medley: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover/Baby Face
19. Chinatown, My Chinatown
20. After You've Gone
21. It All Depends on You
22. Give My Regards to Broadway
23. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
24. I'm Just Wild About Harry
25. (Just One Way to Say) I Love You
26. Paris Wakes Up and Smiles

Disc: 3

1. Some Enchanted Evening
2. Let's Go West Again
3. God's Country
4. Remember Mother's Day
5. My Mother's Rosary
6. The Old Piano Roll Blues
7. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
8. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
9. No Sad Songs for Me
10. Old Black Joe
11. My Old Kentucky Home
12. Beautiful Dreamer
13. Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground
14. Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)
15. I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
16. Oh! Susannah
17. De Camptown Races
18. Swanee (Alternative Take)
19. You Made Me Love You (Alternative Take)
20. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Incomplete Take)
21. California, Here I Come (Alternative Take)
22. About a Quarter to Nine (Alternative Take)
23. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (Alternative Take)
24. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (Alternative Take)
25. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Solo Version)
26. Alabamy Bound (Previously Unreleased)