The Jazz Singer
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Need name of female jazz singer who’s last name sounds like ‘May’?
I was at B&N and the cashier said the vocalist singing was a name that sounded like ‘Al-me-dah May’. Does that sound like a female jazz singer to anyone else who knows how to spell the correct name?
Billie Holiday is Lady Day
Al Jolson – Mammy (The Jazz Singer) 1927
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MAMMY 3-Dimensional Cookie Jar *NEW!* You are bidding on this BRAND NEW Mammy 3-Dimensional Cookie Jar. This is such a beautiful piece! It has beautiful detail and color. It is quite thick and quite heavy. It measures approx. 10″ tall. It is made of ceramic with a fine gloss finish coating each piece. This would make a great addition to your kitchen decor, or this would make a wonderful gift item for any Jazz Band Lover! Don’t for… |
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The Jazz Singer [VHS] $14.98 Not much jazz spoken in this 1980 version of the Jolson classic, directed by Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) and starring a very tentative Neil Diamond as a cantor’s son who would rather sing commercially than in a synagogue. The soundtrack is tedious, the portrait of L.A.’s music industry preposterous, and Diamond (despite his talents as a singer-songwriter in the real world) can’t help but look… |
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The Jazz Singer [VHS] $11.57 Generally considered the first sound feature, this 1927 film is pretty much silent except for a few lines of dialogue and Al Jolson’s songs. The story finds Jolson playing the son of a cantor who wants him to follow in his footsteps, but the singer prefers secular music. Except for its historical value, the film isn’t all that interesting, though it is great to get a sense of why people considered… |
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1927 in Film: 1927 Films, Metropolis, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the Jazz Singer, Wings, Seventh Heaven, the General, Chang, the Dove $62.93 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 528. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1927 Films, Metropolis, Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans, the Jazz Singer, Wings, Seventh Heaven, the General, Chang, the Dove, the Patent Leather Kid, the Cat and the Canary, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the Lodger: a Story of the London Fog, My Best Girl, the King of Kings, for the Love of Mike, Napol on, It, the Unknown |
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1927 in Film: 1927 Films, Metropolis, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the Jazz Singer, Wings, Seventh Heaven, the General, Chang, the Dove $70.84 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1927 Films, Metropolis, Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans, the Jazz Singer, Wings, Seventh Heaven, the General, Chang, the Dove, the Patent Leather Kid, 1927 in Film, the Cat and the Canary, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the Lodger: a Story of the London Fog, My Best Girl, the King of Kings, for the Love |
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1928 in Film $58.4 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent. July 28 – Lights of New York is released by Warner Brothers. It is the first true talking feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film. Previous releases Don Juan and The Jazz Singer had used a synchronized soundtrack with sound effects and music, with The Jazz Singer having a few incidental lines spoken by Al Jolson. |
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A Life in Jazz $61.19 Used – As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orchestras of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, Barker is uniquely placed to give an authoritative but personal view of jazz history. In this book he discusses his life in music, from the children’s ’spasm’ bands of the seventh ward of New Orleans, through the experience of brass bands and jazz funerals involving his grandfather, Isidore Barbarin, to his early days on the road with the blues singer |
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Adelaide Hall $65.6 Used – Adelaide Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American born British based jazz singer and entertainer. Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York and taught to sing by her father. She began her career on Broadway in 1921 in the chorus line of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and went on to appear in a number of similar black musical shows, until in 1928 she starred (with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Nina Mae McKinney) in Blackbirds of 1928. It was this revue that made her name, bo |
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