Al jolson sang in black face to bring black talent to the forefront. He wasnt racist, he was trying to promote black talent the best way he could. Its a shame he has been so condemned because he loved the black community and the music. He didn't have a racist bone in his body.
@barryjacobs85245 ай бұрын
No microphones,no tinsel on the stage. Just greatness of a man with a great voice. The end. ❤
@GMYellowstone5 ай бұрын
So well said!!! 😊😊
@ritacable6159 Жыл бұрын
Jolsen he is the best !! Greetings from Australia
@ronaldstrange89816 ай бұрын
Do you mean JOLSON? Please give my love to daughter Lucy, and grandchildren Max and Jemima in Melbourne. Regards from England, February, 2024.
@ColtDee5 ай бұрын
Yep.
@ColtDee4 ай бұрын
Still a wonderful timeless classic, Jolly in black face was amazing.
@ButchG1253 Жыл бұрын
I wish I could have been in that audience. Wow!
@varietyguy7 ай бұрын
As an extra. A free lunch too!
@varietyguy7 ай бұрын
As an extra. A free lunch too!
@varietyguy7 ай бұрын
As an extra. A free lunch too!
@varietyguy7 ай бұрын
As an extra. A free lunch too!
@varietyguy7 ай бұрын
As an extra. A free lunch too!
@guyonearth3 жыл бұрын
Jolson had a powerful voice. He performed mostly in the pre-amplifier era, and it's probably incomprehensible to modern audiences that many singers at this time performed in theaters like this without microphones or a PA system. His voice could fill a music hall.
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
Too that may explain the popularity of Ethel Merman, whose voice I find too strident.
@jaelge3 жыл бұрын
@@JudgeJulieLit: Loved Jolson, Merman always annoyed me. Not just because of her singing voice but because her overall persona, (and speaking voice, too) seemed crass to me.
@lucinioroldan43562 жыл бұрын
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@douglasschneider555 Жыл бұрын
He also sang with just 1 lung in his later career. Amazing!
@finddeniro Жыл бұрын
Tony Bennett . " I will show you how they did it in old days.." He belted it out.. I saw him twice in a Theater built 1928 .Ohio..
@JakeeeWareee2 жыл бұрын
l’m 74 yrs old hearing this song brings back childhood memories l could cry !!!
@jonnydougs Жыл бұрын
Jolson had the guts to go on stage to celebrate our black heritage in an impermissible time…he did it with blackface out of respect….God bless him.
@ValleyoftheRogue Жыл бұрын
He did respect black entertainers tremendously, as did Eddie Cantor, who also performed in blackface early in his career. Both men loathed racism.
@NB-gu9rs3 ай бұрын
Yeah, there are real good reasons this is considered offensive in this day and age... but I don't see the faintest sign Al meant any harm with it. He was a product of the times, working with the culture we had. We have to move on from that, but there's no sense in punishing him for it.
@user-iw8pg8kq2q2 ай бұрын
Jolson wore blk face 2 expose WHT audiences 2 blk music. He also insisted on blk musicians being hired during his performances. IMO as a WHT person, blk culture and history is all part of American History.
@hmackie68235 ай бұрын
I don't know why,but I love this!
@NB-gu9rs3 ай бұрын
I suspect I do. The big sanctimonious American flag and the blackface explain it all.
@Whickedlee14 күн бұрын
@@NB-gu9rsso….you hate America and have zero understanding of our cultural history. I’m assuming you’ve been handed your worldview by people who know better but are using you as a useful idiot. I’m also assuming your age as well. I could be wrong. It’s possible that you actually know better but resentment, atheism and ideology have swept you along to their inevitable destination. America must be a sanctimonious fraud and the only explanation for Jolson’s popularity has got to be racism. If these things are NOT the case I imagine things looking a little bleak for you. If you are an American I’d say you are an ungratefully ignorant malcontent who is utterly out of his depth when discussing culture. I feel comfortable describing you as a person on the internet attempting to put forward an opinion on music, human nature, and sociological motivations for taste. You are attempting to float a biting social critique, a musical and historical hot take and an indictment of both Jolson and the OP. I’m going to call it L’s all down the line. Your comment did nothing but shine a floodlight on all the ways you are wholly unqualified and laughably inadequate to eavesdrop on a conversation like the one you have attempted here. That you intended your…..sentences….as ….rhetorical fisticuffs …hahaha…well, it’s just funny. Out here taking shots at the hegemony like a good little pipe wrench eh? Haha…God bless the United States, Al Jolson and you. I’ll pray for you. Lil’ scrapper…haha. Look out commenters! We got a freedom fighter in here exposing all the reeeeeeesiasts and boogats!
@annsmith5712 Жыл бұрын
I just heard this song when I asked Alexa to play songs from 1918 , as I ask her to play very old old songs, this song was very good recorded even for our time and his voice was so powerful for such a young performer as he was in his 20's at the time he sang it first.
@richardhoyle34403 жыл бұрын
I think of where my grandparents lived from my birth up to when they came to Horsforth in 1978. Al Jolson was loved by us all in our family.
@user-bt2ve2mm1r Жыл бұрын
The Great Al Johnson!!! Regards from Argentina...
@ColtDee Жыл бұрын
beautiful perfection sing Jolly we're listening!
@darrenwhelan81733 жыл бұрын
Watched the Dvd of the AL JOLSON STORY with the Dad the other night,Loved every minute of it,Had to Laugh when he Said to me,sorry probably not your cup of tea,Proved him wrong when my recenty played Vinly(7inch) They Sold a Million no.3 appeared.
@helenwietlisbach88672 жыл бұрын
This performance is timeless. I am to young to have had the opportunity to experience vaudeville. This shows me how wonderderfull it must have been.
@wonderfuljoey236 ай бұрын
Is it though….
@ColtDee5 ай бұрын
"Listen you ain't heard nothing yet folks"
@annadiehl11282 жыл бұрын
My Dad had a good voice and sing like Jolson. He loved Al Jolson! He died last year and I miss his singing so much. I feel like he is speaking to me through his music because these old songs will pop into my head and I can hear my Dad singing clear as a sunny day.
@kimvukobratovich8248 Жыл бұрын
My experience…exactly…❤️
@ColtDee5 ай бұрын
Yes I get you.
@robertcorbett39152 ай бұрын
The greatest entertainer in the world.
@hmackie6823Ай бұрын
he was
@jamesb60806 ай бұрын
I love it. ❤
@hmackie6823Ай бұрын
the more I learn about al jolson the more I admire him and OFC it's NOT a racist thing...this guy was a"performer"
@peterlarsen1000 Жыл бұрын
One of my very favorite artists. Rosa Larsen
@jimmymiller77 Жыл бұрын
Where did these days go ??? Just listen to the "Crap" they give us today. Now I now what Hell is like !! NO Auto Tune, NO Strobe lights and special effects. Just PURE Talent. O'h, what I wouldn't give to go back to those times. Air was clean and Sex was dirty !! >
@NB-gu9rs3 ай бұрын
People complained about "newfangled" jazz back then too, and how it wasn't "real music." Quite a lot, actually. Read a damn book someday, Jimbo, and maybe you'll start to notice how much history repeats itself.
@markmartindale721521 күн бұрын
Sex is NOT "dirty"! Now go wash out your mouth with Fels Naptha!
@jackbuckley78163 жыл бұрын
This priceless clip had disappeared from You Tube for a very long time. Already a huge fan of the entertainer, I recall being blown-away when I first came across this several years ago now. I used to search for it again occasionally but it had vanished.Thrilled to see its been returned here, as it showcases one of his greatest songs and accompanying performances. Of course, I've owned the movie which contains this scene(and many other awesome Jolie moments)so it doesn't really matter that it's back on You Tube--except for all those who, like me once, are discovering it for the first time! He's amazing, rivetting, & thrilling here, putting his entire heart & soul into the number. A quick word about Jolson's use of blackface--this may sound like treason but it doesn't bother me because I understand it within its historical-context, as a mode of wildly-popular, uniquely-American, theatrical-form of entertainment--he didn't use it in a racist-fashion. Furthest thing from his mind. Once he realized he'd struck gold, emphasizing the music from an idealized-South, how enthusiastically audiences responded to it as ENTERTAINMENT, he employed blackface as a way to portray a man closely-associated with this then-exotic region & culture--and noone could put it across like Jolson! Please note that he NEVER belittled African-Americans in his performances--he sang & danced with emotional-depth, heartfelt-sincerity, and, when the occasion called for it, with pure-joy as well.
@margaretthomas88993 жыл бұрын
Perfectly put Jack!
@jackbuckley78163 жыл бұрын
@@margaretthomas8899 So glad. Thanks! I'll always defend Mr. Jolson from these unfair--and mostly uninformed--attacks!
@margaretthomas88993 жыл бұрын
@@jackbuckley7816 Exaclty jack I can take Jolie with or without Blackface, and Larry Parks, It is the Great Entertainment value I get out of it nothing else. YES times were different, but that does not mean they were all bad.There should be more Jolie. There is a big chance Movies of his will be out on Blu ray with extras. Go to Criterion to get the Jolson Story on Blu Ray and/ or the several Jolson fcebook sites for links
@irishmike35143 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words about Al Jolson!! I first heard him in the Jolson Story when I was around 11 years old......I'm 67 now and have loved him ever since!!
@KarEEm-zy5ry3 жыл бұрын
Priceless??
@hmackie6823Ай бұрын
Was no one like him,never will be!
@MrArtVendelay5 жыл бұрын
Wiliam Frawley was also Bub on my three sons. Upon his death he was replaced by Wiliam Demarest who played Uncle Charlie. William Demarest of course is known to us largely for his role in The Jolson Story.
@cameronchatterton2 жыл бұрын
Did you know that Frawley introduced the song, My Manny
@sylviahibberson29993 жыл бұрын
What a great singer there will never. Be another one like him
@dichheng3443 жыл бұрын
He did black face wtf
@bernhardstramann66182 жыл бұрын
@@dichheng344He entertained American troops in three wars and was one of the first to stand up for rights for blacks.
@punished_gooner2 жыл бұрын
@@dichheng344 yes, and?
@brt-jn7kg Жыл бұрын
@@dichheng344 it wasn't the mock black people it was to bring black songs and culture of the black people to an extremely segregated society would not have ever known about it otherwise. You can never reply today's standards to history. It's art not anything political.
@dianalefave5 ай бұрын
Ask some black people how they perceive it hmmmmm
@hmackie6823Ай бұрын
we know about him because 20 years after His stardom,Al played HIMSELF in his autobiographical Movie
@cyclesgoff97683 жыл бұрын
More Jolson please 🤩
@hmackie68232 ай бұрын
and al,speaks 4 himself,he was the best
@hellsrideschilling9592 Жыл бұрын
Mammy mine, your little rolling stone that rolled away, rolled away Mammy mine, your little rolling stone is home today, there to stay! I want to see your smiling face, smile a welcome smile I want to feel your fond embrace, listen, Mammy mine! Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody When you croon, croon a tune From the heart of Dixie Just Hang that cradle mammy mine Right on that Mason-Dixon line And swing it from Virginia To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya Weep no more, Weep no more my lady Mammy, sing it again for me And "Old Black Joe" Just as though You had me on your knee A million baby kisses I'll deliver If you will only sing that Swanee River Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody Rock-a-bye Rock your little baby With a Dixie melody When you croon, croon a little tune From the heart of Dixie Just hang that cradle mammy mine Right on that Mason-Dixon line And swing it from Virginia To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya Mammy, mammy listen to what they're playing They're playing Weep No More My Lady Sing it again for me And you remember, remember " Old Black Joe" God love you Mammy, you sang when I was on your knee A million baby kisses -- [kissing sounds] -- I'll deliver Mammy sing that Swanee River Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody!
@bb41873 жыл бұрын
I am now well into my seventies. This was one of my first records.
@Juliaflo2 жыл бұрын
I wasn't yet born when Mr. Jolson passed away.
@Kennephone Жыл бұрын
@@Juliaflo Me neither, not for another 52 years. I own a bunch of his Columbia records from the teens and twenties, great music.
@bradfordrusso7480 Жыл бұрын
Watch for the "blooper". The film makers made a mistake in the lyrics. It's supposed to read: "Rock a bye your baby ... with a JOLSON Melody." His style became a genre all its own ! Jolson led the way, in show business, for decades. Revolutionizing the Entertainment Industry -- NOT Once, but Several Times. 70 years After his death, he is still IMMORTAL.
@JakeeeWareee2 жыл бұрын
Greatest entertainer ever, no more tobe to said . What a voice !!!!!!!!!
@ColtDee5 ай бұрын
"Listen you ain't heard nothing yet folks"
@jimkreider99972 жыл бұрын
Great. Al Jolson was terrific.
@ghostrider-ek8gu2 жыл бұрын
The always great Al Jolson
@hmackie68232 ай бұрын
Owl Jolson,I Love to singa lika the Moona and the Juna and the springa...I like to singa
@lindamussa88943 жыл бұрын
Al Jolson was awesome
@howardmankoff42982 ай бұрын
Jolson was one of the 1st entertainers to play for the troops in Korea. It greatly affected his health and led to his death. Also. "Jolson's comming?" from the movie My Favorite Year.
@gabrielalbertosalade6033 Жыл бұрын
El hombre inolvidable😅
@zapdunga12 Жыл бұрын
The ONLY reason this gets deleted from KZfaq is because it is from the 1939 movie The Rose of Washington Square staring Alice Fayec and Tyrone Power. NOT BECAUSE JOLSON IS SINGING IN BLACKFACE which was his trademark and was not to make fun of black people, but to emulate them. Back in those days there was not one black person who thought Jolson was a racist. They loved him because he introduced the white listening audience to black music....jazz. And he opened the doors for future black performers. When two black performers were asked to leave a restaurant because of their color, Jolson told the manager, if they had to leave, then he would leave too. He also used real black performers in his movies instead of white people playing black people. See video, 'Liza Lee' I never understood why a black person would get upset with the then greatest entertainer of all time wanting to sing as a black man. ❤
@anthonymongelli5567 Жыл бұрын
Bravo 🎶 it all Al 🎤🎶 Mamy memories!
@broadwaymike922 жыл бұрын
Both Jolson and Garland gave 2 spectacular takes on this standard!!!
@MrGGPRI Жыл бұрын
Jerry Lewis tried also but-- failed...
@user-ki1un4jg2d11 ай бұрын
So did Connie Francis .
@colingreen69503 жыл бұрын
Brilliant entertainer !!!
@anthonymongelli5567 Жыл бұрын
Mammy bravo Al swing it from Virginia 🇺🇸🎤🎶😎
@FighterGlory8 ай бұрын
Outstanding!
@Mr.Rocklight3 ай бұрын
The Greatest Voice ❤
@markkniff93832 жыл бұрын
Al Jolson was, AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST ENTERTAINER!!!
@layladennison35593 ай бұрын
Fantastic 👍
@Mr.Rocklight3 ай бұрын
Wow ❤ its in his heart ❤
@johnmiller76122 жыл бұрын
Wonderful form of entertainment!! Love it!
@ColtDee5 ай бұрын
Fantastic.
@brianganstine21374 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful voice.
@colingreen69503 жыл бұрын
You made us love you !
@fredmontoya17652 жыл бұрын
No matter what role he performed, William Frawley always looked the same age
@hmackie68233 жыл бұрын
Al Jolson played himself in this movie.I think was about 20 years from his original Stradom.
@hmackie68232 ай бұрын
this guy was a showman
@pathetictroll75573 жыл бұрын
I Love Al Jolson!
@martingwinnutt35212 жыл бұрын
Such power but with a rich timbre. I've evangelised him all my life. my kids laugh at me but they have no idea.
@JakeeeWareee2 жыл бұрын
He was the greatest entertainer ever brought up listening to Al Jolson as a child , !,,,
@ronpickens70303 жыл бұрын
Fred Mertz. Love it
@Deutschie2 жыл бұрын
He was old there too ! LOL.
@Kathy-cw9vt3 ай бұрын
Love jolsen !!!
@gsxr419Ай бұрын
Man people were easy to please and entertain back then. Simple times.
@lennon12522 ай бұрын
In 1907, when Al Jolson was just 20, he married Henrietta Keller. At the time he could not find work. So he took a job with Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show which was white men singing and dancing in blackface. Jolson was not happy singing the same old songs, the same old way night after night. One night while the show was in New Orleans, Jolson goes for a walk and winds up in the black section of town where he hears music that he had never heard before coming out of a club. It was JAZZ! He had never heard that kind of music being played by black musicians before. He loses track of time and doesn't get back in time for the Minstrel Show. He is fired. But this experience, hearing JAZZ music, changed his musical career forever. Here is that scene from The 1946 motion picture 'The Jolson Story'.. Jolson is being played by actor Larry Parks. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atl-Zbp4l9DWYIk.htmlsi=KIqm5vPeJ4KjxRm5
@miketheyunggod25344 жыл бұрын
What a master. Great in everything he did.
@bonzupippinpaddleopsicopol80943 жыл бұрын
More like slave master…
@brucelundy7815 ай бұрын
The Greatest
@hmackie68235 ай бұрын
the performance is unique
@simonx493 жыл бұрын
thank you for reuploading this. his best performance for me, god knows why it disappeared before
@jaelge3 жыл бұрын
Liberals, no doubt.
@ibrahimalee233 жыл бұрын
@@jaelge cuz of black face obviously. I don't think conservatives are cool with that either, at least i hope not.
@sydneyengland65452 жыл бұрын
@@jaelge personally, i think people just aren’t generally okay with blackface no matter how they lean politically.
@jaelge2 жыл бұрын
@@ibrahimalee23: I don't see anything wrong with it. It´s not being used to mock or deride Blacks but is paying homage. Im Italian on my father´s side and Irish/German/Indian on my mother´s side. Am I supposed to be offended when I see a pizza box with the stereotypical Italian w/ the big nose and mustache or Italians being depicted as mobsters? Am I supposed be outraged when I see a cowboy and Indian movie or a sport team´s name paying homage to the American Indian? Or Irish being depicted as drunken gingers? This whole racial issue is a bunch of bullshit fabricated by Marxist Liberals and does nothing but divide people.
@ibrahimalee232 жыл бұрын
@@jaelge it's literally made to mock blacks, not pay homage. Where did you get that info from? The literal reason for black face was to play into the racist stereotypes associated with Black Americans. Black Americans (and people in general) are allowed to be offended by black face if they choose too.
@markmassare7786 Жыл бұрын
Mr. Jolson was not mocking black people he was playing a simple part, many black men wear a white face in those days for vaudeville, mime, and comedy, also tribesmen and women in Africa And South AMERICA Wear MULTICOLOR FACE PAINT IN THEIR Rituals THANK YOU. ** MARK J MASSARE** Ph. D.. .
@sarahostrinsky45954 ай бұрын
Thank you Al
@romanromano4338 Жыл бұрын
A Hungarian-Jewish immigrant to America who became famous for singing jazz sometimes coloring his face black to emphasize to the racist Americans that the music they love so much originated from the Bllack Americans.
@clinece3 жыл бұрын
My dad use t sing this to me at bed time.
@thejollyrancher67133 жыл бұрын
Did he douse himself in shoe polish first?
@jaelge3 жыл бұрын
@@thejollyrancher6713: Seriously, STFU.
@jaelge3 жыл бұрын
Ignore that dickhead, Wayne.
@adamender90923 жыл бұрын
Good voice
@hmackie68233 жыл бұрын
Al Jolson was the 1st person ever video recorded singing,by Thomas Edison.
@cjc47653 жыл бұрын
Not really. Actually he didn't like the way Jolson sang and called him a "Coney Island beer singer, not for us". Obviously he cost his company tons and tons of money. Edison had no clue about popular artists! He even hated Caruso!!!! ("To much tremolo, no good")! The genius wasn't a genius when it came to talent.
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
Were Jolson's soundtrack songs in the film The Jazz Singer (1927) the first ever video recording of singing?
@cjc47653 жыл бұрын
@@JudgeJulieLit no. Warner brother did a test with Jolson a year before and ordered all the copies to be destroyed so they could promote The Jazz Singer as the “first talkie”. Luckily a tape of “A Plantation Act” was found in tacked in the 90s and you can see it here on KZfaq. So 1926
@bernhardstramann66182 жыл бұрын
@@cjc4765 I can only agree with that. Edison was a brilliant inventor, but he saw no talent at all.
@VigilanteVegan3 жыл бұрын
I'm looking forward to the new reboot coming out.
@cameronmorck85103 жыл бұрын
you are on NOTICEEEE
@varietyguy3 жыл бұрын
@@cameronmorck8510: NOTICE for what???
@cameronmorck85103 жыл бұрын
@@varietyguy shoe polish face!!!! lolololol
@varietyguy3 жыл бұрын
Al Jolson was a God when I was growing up. He was celebrated as a great entertainer, great singer and a man who did more to advance the centuries long battle between Jews and Gentiles. He was the first 20th Century Superstar who was loved by Christians as well as Jews. He logged thousands of miles entertaining servicemen during World War II. He was responsible for many black performers finding work through his efforts. Now he is vilified as a racist. Perhaps you can see what a fucked up world we live in when such a great man as Al Jolson is now raked over the coals.
@cameronmorck85103 жыл бұрын
@@varietyguy its white people being upset for black people which in and of it self is offensive im right there with you guy
@k9feces3 жыл бұрын
I watched this in the theater
@gillianlovett46923 жыл бұрын
Great.
@charliedanrick64943 жыл бұрын
Color of face? Ridiculous. The man was an absolute genius.Everything he sang he "killed."
@teijaflink22262 жыл бұрын
Seems so unnessesary, he's clearly extremely talanted and doesn't seem to be trying to mock anyone (seems like a serious performance) so why the need to paint his face? What's the point, he surely must have known it could be hurtful to people?
@defaultdefault8372 жыл бұрын
@Tarnell Lol to make himself unique this is minstrel performing
@KidMillions2 жыл бұрын
@@teijaflink2226 it was to add pathos to the song and bring black culture and music to the audience. In a light song like Toot Toot Tootsie he doesn't wear this make-up.
@dans9463 Жыл бұрын
Don't have to be politically correct.. It's art..
@XxXxTwofirstnames69420xXxXx Жыл бұрын
@@teijaflink2226 so u can c his eyes n mouth better from the back of the theatre. Like clown makeup but for srs stuff.
Omg, at 0:04 backstage that's actor William (future "Fred Mertz") Frawley urging Al to "go out there and kill them!"
@irishmike35143 жыл бұрын
William Frawley was the same age for 50 years!! Great character actor!!
@hmackie68232 ай бұрын
he was the taylor swift of that time
@sanhuan342 жыл бұрын
Well, talk about politially incorrect, love it!
@hmackie68238 күн бұрын
THis Guy was Bigger than the beatles in His Day!
@lennon12525 ай бұрын
Al called his blackface character 'Gus'. It was just a role he was playing. Al Jolson was not a racist. Neither were Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, or multitudes of others who blacked up for a role. Racism is defined in one's actions and one's motivations, not necessarily by the color of one's make-up, or of one's skin.
@hmackie68233 ай бұрын
take away any objections to the blackface...listen to his songs,is a reason he was the BEST
@CappyCraigZ10 ай бұрын
“WE GOT AL JOLSON HERE!! AL JOLSON!!” -George Castansa”
@if53403 жыл бұрын
Yes 👍🤗😃
@BuckyBrown-lt4ry4 жыл бұрын
Same camera shots as in THE JAZZ SINGER(Jolson's view of audience over his shoulder, etc.)
@snowpatriot40453 жыл бұрын
This is much better then Motown.............lol....
@murph30012 жыл бұрын
It's truly a shame the black face make up in AJ'S act was taken out of context ____ truly misunderstood. ___ sure for sure AJ was not a racist . He loved black influenced music __ in retrospect his presentations were knocked and discredited. In his heart his music expressed love and in no way did he intend to disrespect or discredit. Truly a shame this stigma still sticks to his legacy. If one listens to this piece you come away with only his live respect .
@somebody9 Жыл бұрын
He loved black people and their music so much that he participated in a practice that was used to stereotype, belittle, and replace them in American entertainment. Yeah umm, maybe that was his justification, but it's not an excuse. Black face then and now isnt okay. I'm sure Al never asked a single black person how they felt about him impersonating them and singing their songs. He wasn't honoring them. He was replacing them. Why was his voice more valuable than the black people who wrote it? Honoring black people would've been actually giving them a platform to perform as themselves instead of the racist charactures they were relegated to. Don't forget that he was pulling this in an age where black people were barred from the success Al enjoyed because of their skin color. I don't see any respect here. There's no such thing as respectful black face
@SongsToStartSmilesАй бұрын
What a shame. A great talent stuck in a blatantly racist era. His hyperactive body language screams of his unease beneath. But what a wonderful voice. What wonderful enthusiasm. They call him Immortal, and such he is.
@hmackie682323 күн бұрын
in his way,perhaps,was like ELVIS wanting to expose the Black talent few heard
@MrLamontSanford Жыл бұрын
I have his autograph
@SarahOstrin13 жыл бұрын
great!
@user-fc1gq5xd9e Жыл бұрын
Looked like Michael Jackson standing up there with those three quarter length black britches and white socks.
@ricksmith52383 жыл бұрын
A true Legend. I don't care what color his face was. If you don't like it then go listen to Louis Farrakhan.
@Robio_scorpio3 жыл бұрын
Fu"cken racist
@carowalsh88613 жыл бұрын
Its racist
@judithmargret59723 жыл бұрын
To some everything is racist. The word has been so overused by the left to represent everything they don't agree with. The swear words come from illiterates who haven't got the vocabulary for extended comments. You don't like it, leave and take your filthy mouth with you.
@carowalsh88613 жыл бұрын
Newman black face goes a long with the root of racism, this isnt an ideology of racism, it just is.
@Alles20073 жыл бұрын
Blackface was just a trend and al Jolson did a lot of stuff for black people we have a lot of bad trends and in 100 years people will look back and call us bad people even though we were just being who we are
@margaretthomas88993 жыл бұрын
Our Australian aboriginals use white make up in their sacred dances which is screened Nation Wide at Big Sporting events etc. I have no comment on it. I Don't feel offended or anything? It is part of a culture, I respect all that. I don't try to unite the masses to have it banned or anything.Blackface Minstrels used by different races is in deed long, complicated and definatelly not contemporary now, but it has never been proven it is the monstrosity in recent times it has been painted to protect the contemporary image, or more so CONTEMPORARY PROFIT!!! AL JOLSON had a unique voice all his own, HE WAS immensly popular and left an indelible mark on Entertainment with or without BLACKFACE. For more about Blackface in a broad general context see the Tim Brooks book The Blackface Minstrel Show IN Mass MEDIA
@evanbruce97373 жыл бұрын
ITS NOT TRADITION YOU BUM STFU BRUH LEAVE YOUR LONG PARAGRAPH TRYNA EXPLAIN RACIST PASTTIMES IN THE DRAFTS MY GUY NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE
@mica4123 жыл бұрын
@@evanbruce9737 - Pardon???
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
@@evanbruce9737 "Margaret" is a lady, you lout.
@RapRants2 жыл бұрын
Australian Abroriginals were doing that long before white people came to their continent. It was never intended to mock or offend them. Blackface was meant to mock and offend black people. That history can’t be changed to fit your narrative.
@margaretthomas88992 жыл бұрын
@@RapRants They may have well done it before Adam and Eve, or Apes evolved into humans, however you want it? All I know is, because I have seen it with my own eyes, unless my TV set is tuned different to everybody else's in Australia, or something? and I am like talking in the last 12 months, at big sporting events, and likely other big occasions? DREAM TIME AT THE G for our Australian football a fine example. They paint on, some full face, a lot of white, other stripes of it over their faces,on their arms and legs and dance around, sing etc etc, It could be seen as an aboriginal minstrel show mocking white people, I CERTAINLY DON"T. I JUST ACCEPT IT AS THEIR CULTURE, OR A WAY OF CELEBRATION WHATEVER! and I thought that way too when I went to the some Church as the Pastor Nicholis Family in Australia, and experienced him as a minister.There will always be people that won't judge anybody by color, or any other trait about them, and. unless they do something bad, insulting, or intimidating to them,give them the benefit of the doubt, even though they may not understand or even like what they do. What they won't do is be bullied brainwashed into contemporary or mob mass hysteria to protect something of mass interest like the anti old stuff! EVER hear of a guy in Germany in the 1930's, who wanted to change the whole world order, was against this and that because it was not his way etc etc, and got the masses with him, brainwashed, this is what the control all's are doing here, Painting something, fabricating it, Thousands of times worse than it was! TO PROTECT THE CONTEMPORARY HIP POCKET PROFIT MARGIN, and fools who are worried about there contemporary image fall for it! THAT is not doing anything to help anybody!
@davidr77334 жыл бұрын
William Frawley was Fred Mertz, I ♡ Lucy.
@cjc47653 жыл бұрын
He also recorded "My Mammy" before Al Jolson.
@SymphonyBrahms2 жыл бұрын
His manager is Fred Mertz! William Frawley before "I Love Lucy".
@lPllLcMr2 жыл бұрын
glad to see woksters and children of the lie at large missed out on this beautiful piece of American Spirit. all they would have taken from it would have been the black face.
@George-zd6rb4 ай бұрын
Was this the former governor of Va.' Ralph Northern?"
@daphneanson95872 жыл бұрын
The Woke Brigade will be after your life for putting this one online!