2008Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
(video documentary)
(performer: "Mammy, I'll Sing About You" - uncredited, "I Love to Sing-a" - uncredited, "Vive La France" - uncredited, "When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along" - uncredited, "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited)
1975Brother Can You Spare a Dime
(documentary)
(lyrics: "California, Here I Come" 1924 / as Jolson / performer: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1931, "California, Here I Come" 1924)
1975Funny Lady
(lyrics: "Me and My Shadow" - uncredited)
1949Feudin' Rhythm
(writer: "The Nearest Thing To Heaven")
1949Jolson Sings Again
(lyrics: "Back in Your Own Backyard" - uncredited, "California, Here I Come" - uncredited, "The Anniversary Song" - uncredited / performer: "Carolina in the Morning" - uncredited, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" - uncredited, "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" - uncredited, "For Me and My Gal" - uncredited, "Back in Your Own Backyard" - uncredited, "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" - uncredited, "When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along" - uncredited, "Give My Regards to Broadway" - uncredited, "Chinatown, My Chinatown" - uncredited, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" - uncredited, "Baby Face" - uncredited, "After You've Gone" - uncredited, "I Only Have Eyes for You" - uncredited, "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!" - uncredited, "California, Here I Come" - uncredited, "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" - uncredited, "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited, "Ma Blushin' Rosie" - uncredited, "My Mammy" - uncredited, "Swanee" - uncredited, "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" - uncredited, "About a Quarter to Nine" - uncredited, "The Anniversary Song" - uncredited, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" - uncredited, "April Showers" - uncredited, "Pretty Baby" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited)
1949The Great Gatsby
(writer: "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" - uncredited)
1947Blondie's Anniversary
(writer: "Anniversary Song Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed" 1946 - uncredited)
1947The Egg and I
(writer: "The Egg and I" - uncredited)
1946Blondie Knows Best
(writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?" - uncredited)
1946The Jolson Story
(lyrics: "California, Here I Come" - uncredited, "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" - uncredited, "Avalon" - uncredited, "The Anniversary Song" - uncredited / performer: "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited, "Ma Blushin' Rosie" - uncredited, "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad" - uncredited, "My Mammy" - uncredited, "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited, "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" - uncredited, "Swanee" - uncredited, "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!" - uncredited, "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" - uncredited, "April Showers" - uncredited, "California, Here I Come" - uncredited, "Liza All the Clouds'll Roll Away" - uncredited, "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" - uncredited, "Avalon" - uncredited, "About a Quarter to Nine" - uncredited, "The Anniversary Song" - uncredited, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" - uncredited)
1946Okay for Sound
(documentary short)
(performer: "My Mammy" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited)
1946Blondie's Lucky Day
(writer: "Who Said Dreams Don't Come True?" - uncredited)
1939Rose of Washington Square
(writer: "California, Here I Come" - uncredited / performer: "Pretty Baby" - uncredited, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!" - uncredited, "California, Here I Come" - uncredited, "My Mammy" - uncredited)
1936After the Thin Man
(writer: "California Here I Come" 1924 - uncredited)
1936The Singing Kid
(writer: "Sonny Boy" - uncredited / performer: "I Love to Sing-a", "The Swingin'est Man in Town", "I Want to Sing a Mammy Song", "You're the Cure for What Ails Me", "Here's Looking at You", "Save Me, Sister", "My Mammy" - uncredited, "Swanee" - uncredited, "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" - uncredited, "California, Here I Come" - uncredited, "April Showers" - uncredited, "About a Quarter to Nine" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited, "All of Me" - uncredited / "I Love to Sing-a")
1936Love on a Bet
(writer: "California Here I Come" - uncredited)
1935Go Into Your Dance
(performer: "Go Into Your Dance" 1935 - uncredited, "Cielito lindo" 1882 - uncredited, " I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" 1860 - uncredited, "Mammy, I'll Sing About You" 1935 - uncredited, "About a Quarter to Nine" 1935 - uncredited, "Old Folks at Home" 1851 - uncredited, "Casino De Paree" 1935 - uncredited, "She's a Latin from Manhattan" 1935 - uncredited / "About a Quarter to Nine" 1935 - uncredited)
1933Melody Cruise
(writer: "California Here I Come" 1924 - uncredited)
1933Hallelujah I'm a Bum
(performer: "I Gotta Get Back to New York", "My Pal Bumper", "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum", "Dear June", "Bumper Found a Grand", "What Do You Want with Money", "Kangeroo Court", "I'd Do It Again", "You Are Too beautiful")
1932Big City Blues
(writer: "Ev'ry Day Can't Be a Sunday" - uncredited)
1930Mammy
(performer: "Across the Breakfast Table Looking at You" - uncredited, "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" - uncredited, "To My Mammy" - uncredited, "My Mammy" - uncredited, "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?" - uncredited, "Why Do They All Take the Night Boat to Albany?" - uncredited, "Yes! We Have No Bananas" - uncredited)
1929Say It with Songs
(writer: "Why Can't You" - uncredited, "Back in Your Own Backyard" - uncredited, "I'm 'Ka-razy' for You" - uncredited, "Mem'ries of One Sweet Kiss" - uncredited / performer: "I'm in Seventh Heaven" - uncredited, "Little Pal" - uncredited, "Used to You" - uncredited, "Why Can't You" - uncredited, "Back in Your Own Backyard" - uncredited, "I'm 'Ka-razy' for You" - uncredited, "Mem'ries of One Sweet Kiss" - uncredited)
1928The Singing Fool
(lyrics: "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" - uncredited, "Golden Gate" - uncredited, "Keep Smiling at Trouble" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited / performer: "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" - uncredited, "Golden Gate" - uncredited, "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited, "It All Depends on You" - uncredited, "Keep Smiling at Trouble" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited, "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" - uncredited)
1928A Breath of Broadway
(short)
(lyrics: "Back in Your Own Back Yard" - uncredited)
1928Down South
(short)
(writer: "Back in Your Own Backyard" - uncredited)
1928Lucky Boy
(lyrics: "California, Here I Come" - uncredited)
1927The Jazz Singer
(lyrics: "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face" 1923 - uncredited / performer: "Kol Nidre" - uncredited, "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face" 1923 - uncredited, "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!" 1922 - uncredited, "Blue Skies" 1926 - uncredited, "Mother of Mine, I Still Have You" 1927 - uncredited, "My Mammy" 1918 - uncredited)
1926A Plantation Act
(short)
(performer: "When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along" - uncredited, "April Showers" - uncredited, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" - uncredited)
I'll tell you when I'm going to play the Palace. That's when Eddie Cantor and George Burns and Groucho Marx and Jack Benny are on the bill. I'm going to buy out the whole house, and sit in the middle of the orchestra and say, 'Slaves, entertain the king!'
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Trivia:
He failed the first screen test to portray himself in
Jolson Sings Again which was attributed to his age 63, at that time. Larry Parks won the role.
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Trademark:
First registered registered human voice heard on Film.
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