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Soup Kitchen Blues

••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

It’s hard times
Rich in their palace
Me on the street

Soup kitchen blues
Can you spare a dime

••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

Al Jolson - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime:

#Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Jazz #Blues #AlJolson #TheDepression

140 years ago today, #AlJolson, American-Lithuanian jazz #singer and silent film #actor (Mamie, Swanee), born in Seredžius, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1950).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🥀

"California, Here I Come" is a song interpolated in the #Broadway musical #Bombo, starring #AlJolson. The song was written by #BudDeSylva, #JosephMeyer, and Jolson. Jolson recorded the song on January 17, 1924, with Isham Jones' Orchestra, in Brunswick Records' Chicago studio. It is often called the unofficial #stateSong of #California. In 2020, it entered the #publicDomain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTWABRKRFM

"How Deep Is the Ocean?" is a #popular song written by #IrvingBerlin in 1932. The song was developed from an earlier Berlin song "To My #Mammy" which was sung by #AlJolson in his film Mammy (1930). In the earlier song, the lyrics include the questions "How deep is the ocean? / How high is the sky?" and this was the genesis of "How Deep Is the Ocean?".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BFpo8huU8

#OnThisDay in 1950, #AlJolson, American-Lithuanian jazz #singer and silent film #actor (Mamie, Swanee), died at 64.
#RIP 🥀

#OnThisDay in 1927, "The Jazz Singer," directed by Alan Crosland and starring #AlJolson and May McAvoy, is released as the first film with a synchronized soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1929).

California, Here I Come 🈁
#AlJolson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYWWsRGt7Y

His real name was Asa Yoelson, and he was born in Seredzius, Lithuania.
10 things you might not know about Al Jolson.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/05/26-may-al-jolson.html

#BirthAnniversary #AlJolson #FilmStars #MovieStars #Actors #Singers

"Boys Will Be Boys"

Wonder Bar (1934) starring Al Jolson, May Francis + Dolores Del Rio was a pre-code film released just before the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (known as the Hays Code) were adaped more rigorously. This scene in particular is often sited as an example of the 'Pansy Craze' - a term coined in 1994 - referring to a period in the late 1920s + early 30s when homosexual visibility in stage + film was increasing.

#boyswillbeboys #aljolson #wonderbar #pansycraze #hayscode #censorship #visibility #precode #precodefilm #film #kino #cinema #filmclip

#TakingABreakFromFilming
#AlJolson and his wife with their 1928 Mercedes Model S Tourer 🚘

🎼🎶 I'm sitting on top of the world
I'm rolling along, yes, rolling along
And I'm quitting the blues of the world
I'm singing a song, yes, singing a song 🎶

#Alpinism #alpinismo #alpinisme #Alpinismus #dogsofmastodon #AlJolson

California, Here I Come
#AlJolson
https://youtu.be/rPH5ZQIpUrw

I've found better copies on YouTube, of my scratchy old 78 RPM recordings @RobertWT
I knew every word to this before I was 8 yrs old!

"His good man Friday was his only friend ♪
He didn't borrow or lend
They built a little hut
Lived there till Friday, but
Saturday night it was shut ♪"

That eclectic variety played throughout my youth.

♫ Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night ♫
#NowPlaying #NSR Colton Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ookuZmLnSg
Eizer Yoelson #AlJolson #Ragtime