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...trumpet against a mass of soft strings (he added five strings to his band to give it the un-swing-like total of eight). Imperturbably, James alternated blues and boogie-woogie with Viennese waltzes and technical specialties out of his own trumpet. But it was his revival of Al Jolson's 1914 hit, You Made Me Love You (I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it) that catapulted him into Bigtime; it fast became a bestseller, has sold about 800,000 records...
...first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt...
Married. Cinedancer Ruby Keeler, 31, ex-wife of Al Jolson; and John Homer Lowe, 29, Pasadena broker; in North Hollywood...
Oldtime Song & Dance Man Harry Jolson (Hirsch Yoelson.) sued his brother Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) for $25,000 in back pay, earned at $150 a week, said Harry, by not using the name Jolson in the theater...
...scored a success with its first ASCAP on Parade program, it kept the show zooming along by playing two new songs by Irving Berlin. One was an anti-Hitler ballad called When that Man is Dead and Gone, the other: Little Old Church in England. On hand were Al Jolson, Ethel Merman, Benny Fields and Hildegarde...