Al Jolson 2

Al Jolson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 26, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pearl
• ASIN: B000000X0D
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #696,755 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That Wonderful Kid from Madrid

2. Swanee

3. Avalon

4. April Showers

5. Ding-A-Ring a Ring

6. Oogie Oogie Wa Wa

7. I'll Stand Beneath Your Window Tonight and Whistle

8. Who Cares?

9. Waitin' for the Evening Mail

10. Twelve O'Clock at Night

11. California, Here I Come

12. Never Again

13. Feeling the Way I Do

14. My Papa Doesn't Two-Time No Time

15. Mandalay

16. Who Wants a Bad Little Boy?

17. I Wonder What's Become of Sally?

18. Follow the Swallow

19. All Alone

20. I'm Gonna Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars The Best One-Disc Spectrum of Jolson, March 5, 2001

By 

Marc Dolan (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Al Jolson 2 (Audio CD)

There are more historically representative samplers of Jolson, and more pleasant collections, but this 3rd disc in the Pearl Flapper series is probably the best one-disc collection. It includes good tracks, embarrassing tracks, interpolated stage songs and some of the first soundtrack recordings to be released as records in their own right. Jolson's popularity as a recording artist often seems mystifying in retrospect, but this disc is probably your best chance of understanding it. He could be so much better--and dear God so much worse--than just a man in blackface on his knees singing to his Mammy.