As Memorial Day draws attention to the fallen, two new songs co-written by veterans give a deeper understanding of the sacrifices made by members of the United States’ armed services. One describes ...

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 ...

Professional development has long followed a predictable formula: Junior staff members learn from senior team leaders, managers enroll in structured programs, and organizations invest in top-down ...

Al Jolson was in a class all by himself ... The corny songs inextricably associated with him were “Swanee,” “My Mammy,” “Toot Toot Tootsie,” and “Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie ...

“As a matter of fact, I’ve brought my concertina,” he recalled telling Mr. Nunn in an interview with The Washington Post in 1982. “He said, ‘Give me something in Italian ...

“My inner child is dead,” she once joked to him. Except she wasn’t kidding. He knew it, and he was determined to resurrect her. And, thus, Baby Emma was reborn. “Baby Emma (aka ...

But I'm still here because of my mother. I never thanked her for… keeping me away from the path that ... Pacino - nicknamed Sonny Boy after an Al Jolson song - and his mum, Rose, lived in ...

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 ...

Buster Keaton and Al Jolson played second fiddle to her career. Born into a family of entertainers in 1886, Annette squeezed every drop of joy from her 89 years and her story is a real celebration ...

A third-season episode of the television show “Mad Men,” titled “My Old Kentucky Home,” finds ... “there was nobody…bigger than Al Jolson.” He “was part of a cohort of entertainers ...

Al Jolson lived “The American ... that the man who made his mark singing “My Mammy” in blackface was himself a “mamma’s boy.” Jolson was born Asa Yoelson in Seredzius, Lithuania ...

Al Pacino has cemented ... and been through in my life. It has been an incredibly personal and revealing experience to reflect on this journey and what acting has allowed me to do and the worlds ...