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"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=v9yMDRdXj3E

#OnThisDay in 1886, #AlJolson, American-Lithuanian jazz #singer and silent film #actor (Mamie, Swanee), born in Seredžius, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1950).
#RIP 🪦

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 🚘

"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=WCblvUXlbOM

#OnThisDay in 1912, 1st unofficial gold record (#AlJolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep").

California, Here I Come 🙎
#AlJolson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTWABRKRFM

California, Here I Come 🦈
#AlJolson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPH5ZQIpUrw

🎼🎶 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

Dog on top of the highest mountain in the area
(Appr. 4ft)

"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=RNYWWsRGt7Y

California, Here I Come 🎨
#AlJolson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPH5ZQIpUrw

"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=J0kMdnFBo_o

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

California, Here I Come
#AlJolson
https://youtu.be/7IjpAGf0oks

🎹 1927. The Jazz Singer, the first sound blockbuster, is a maudlin, cruel and mother-fixated melodrama about ethnicity, assimilation and the dreary exigencies of capitalism (also so much terrible dancing).

https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-part-17-maudlin-cruel-and-mother

#GROSS #cinema #history #SilentCinema #review #profit #economics #newsletter #Substack #AlJolson #blackface #racism #AntiSemitism