{"id":4424,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/al-jolson-cocktail-hour\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"al-jolson-cocktail-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4424","title":{"rendered":"Al Jolson &#8211; Cocktail Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/cocktaihour.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"\/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana,Helvetica,\">  Al Jolson<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Cocktail Hour<\/font><br \/><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">(Allegro &#8211; 2000)<br \/>  \u00a0 by Matthew S. Robinson  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">  From signature performances of &#8220;Swanee&#8221; and &#8220;Sonny Boy&#8221; to unmistakable renditions of other classic pop tunes like &#8220;Avalon,&#8221; this two-CD set is an extended greatest hits collection of the man who brought sound to the movies and favorite songs to generations of music lovers. Bouncing through the southern-tinged &#8220;Carolina in the Morning&#8221; and the a frivolous &#8220;I&#8217;m Just Wild About Harry,&#8221; the collection also demonstrates Jolson&#8217;s Vaudevillian crooning abilities through devotionals like a black-faced &#8220;My Mammy&#8221; and a two-paced &#8220;After You&#8217;ve Gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>   Though the album is lacking both the crispness of modern recordings and any liner notes whatsoever (the dearth of musical history a much more egregious fault than the authentic victrola sound), it still proves able to capture the humor and pathos of one of the true pioneers of the entertainment industry.    <br \/><\/font><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  \u00a9 2001, M.S. Robinson, ARR<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>    <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jolson Cocktail Hour(Allegro &#8211; 2000) \u00a0 by Matthew S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}