Photo: Jim Caruso has released a deluxe version of his classic album The Swing Set. Photo courtesy of Christopher Boudewyns ...

About the Album: In 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 ...

Al Jolson was in a class all by himself. From about 1912 until 1934, he was the most highly paid entertainer in the United States. What Enrico Caruso was to opera, Jolson was to popular song.

That decade exploded with legendary albums, each boasting cover art as iconic as the hits ... housing hits like "You Can Call Me Al." A commercial triumph, this album solidified Madonna's place ...

About the Album: Rare early recordings, some live, of Al Jolson from Chip Deffaa's own extensive collection. "Swanee," "Medley: Whispering / My Melancholy Baby / Poor Butterfly," "Ma Blushing ...

Album covers can sometimes make or break the appeal of an album. These five super-cool album covers from the 1990s only made the music within their sleeves even better. Let’s take a look at just ...

Sonny Boy' by Al Jolson is a classic that holds a special ... McAloon also contributed to Stewart’s 2018 album Blood Red Roses, though the two have never met in person: “This band, I’ll ...

But when an album does have a great cover, it stands out. When that cover’s visually representative of the music itself, it stands out even more. Below is a list of some of the most notable ...

Here are the five grossest metal album covers ever, chosen by Molder vocalist/guitarist Aaren Pantke. There's a lot of disgusting album covers out there and Pantke fronts one of the grossest new ...

Richard Bernstein wastes no time dealing with the radioactive subject of blackface in his fascinating new biography of the Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson. He puts the rightly reviled practice ...

In the early days of vinyl records, album covers were nothing more than a safety feature, blank paper jackets meant to protect the fragile content inside. That is, until, designer Alex Steinweiss ...

From Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore to Charlie Chaplin and Al Jolson, motion pictures made ... Every time Buck Owens released an album, The Beatles requested a copy through their shared ...