5055122113430

The Decca Years 1945-1950 (Including Previously Unreleased Tracks)

Al Jolson

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: SEPIA1343

Release Date:  13 September 2019

Label:  Sepia

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5055122113430

Genres:  Easy Listening  

  • Description

    The most fabulous and fitting CD set of Al Jolson ever made, including all 71 of his vocal sides for Decca from 1945 to 1950, plus two previously-unreleased performances, six alternative takes, and one incomplete take totalling 80 tracks. In pristine remastered sound with a deluxe booklet including newly-written liner notes, period illustrations, and a sessionography.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Swanee
      • 2. April Showers
      • 3. Ma Blushin' Rosie
      • 4. My Mammy
      • 5. You Made Me Love You
      • 6. Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
      • 7. California, Here I Come
      • 8. Sonny Boy
      • 9. Avalon
      • 10. Anniversary Song
      • 11. Alexander's Ragtime Band
      • 12. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
      • 13. All My Love
      • 14. Keep Smiling At Trouble
      • 15. Back in Your Own Backyard
      • 16. I'm Sitting On Top of the World
      • 17. Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow
      • 18. Toot, Toot Tootsie!
      • 19. Carolina in the Morning
      • 20. Liza
      • 21. For Me and My Gal
      • 22. About a Quarter to Nine
      • 23. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
      • 24. Golden Gate
      • 25. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
      • 26. There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
      • 27. If I Only Had a Match
      • 28. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy

      Disc 2

      • 1. I Want A Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
      • 2. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
      • 3. I Wish I Had a Girl
      • 4. When I Leave the World Behind
      • 5. Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone
      • 6. When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
      • 7. Kol Nidre
      • 8. Cantor On the Sabbath
      • 9. Hatikvoh
      • 10. Israel
      • 11. Down Among the Sheltering Palms
      • 12. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
      • 13. I'm Crying Just for You
      • 14. I Only Have Eyes for You
      • 15. That Wonderful Girl of Mine
      • 16. In Our House
      • 17. Pretty Baby
      • 18. Medley: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover/Baby Face
      • 19. Chinatown, My Chinatown
      • 20. After You've Gone
      • 21. It All Depends On You
      • 22. Give My Regards to Broadway
      • 23. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
      • 24. I'm Just Wild About Harry
      • 25. (Just One Way to Say) I Love You
      • 26. Paris Wakes Up and Smiles

      Disc 3

      • 1. Some Enchanted Evening
      • 2. Let's Go West Again
      • 3. God's Country
      • 4. Remember Mother's Day
      • 5. My Mother's Rosary
      • 6. The Old Piano Roll Blues
      • 7. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
      • 8. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
      • 9. No Sad Songs for Me
      • 10. Old Black Joe
      • 11. My Old Kentucky Home
      • 12. Beautiful Dreamer
      • 13. Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground
      • 14. Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
      • 15. I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
      • 16. Oh! Susannah
      • 17. De Camptown Races
      • 18. Swanee (alternative take)
      • 19. You Made Me Love You (alternative take)
      • 20. Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Incomplete take)
      • 21. California, Here I Come (alternative take)
      • 22. About a Quarter to Nine (alternative take)
      • 23. Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (alternative take)
      • 24. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (alternative take)
      • 25. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (solo version)
      • 26. Alabamy Bound (previously unreleased)