" When he saw Al Jolson singing in The Jazz Singer in 1927, considered the first talkie, Capra recalled his reaction:

Lewis tried his hand at releasing solo music in the 1950s, having a chart hit with the song " Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody " ( a song largely associated with Al Jolson and later re-popularized by Judy Garland ) as well as the song, " It All Depends on You " in 1958.

The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".

* 1886 – Al Jolson, American singer, comedian, and actor ( d. 1950 )

In 1952 Lee played opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer.

Al Jolson, Lillian Russell, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford were among the luminaries to make the pilgrimage to his house in central Ohio.

As a result of the financial problems the studio was having, Warner Bros. took the next step and released The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.

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* May 26 – Al Jolson, American entertainer ( d. 1950 )

The network became the home of many popular musical and comedy stars, among them Jack Benny, (" Your Canada Dry Humorist "), Al Jolson, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and Kate Smith, whom Paley personally selected for his family's La Palina Hour because she was not the type of woman to provoke jealousy in American wives.

In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

He then joined an Al Jolson production of Robinson Crusoe Jr., travelling to Los Angeles.

Entertainer Al Jolson even scatted through a few bars in the middle of his 1911 recording of " That Haunting Melody ".

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

Other film work includes the scores to The Phantom President ( 1932 ), starring George M. Cohan, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ( 1933 ), starring Al Jolson, and, in a quick return after having left Hollywood, Mississippi ( 1935 ), starring Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields.

It became identified with her, and soon worked its way back to New York where Al Jolson also began to perform it.

The song has been recorded by many artists, including The Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Johnnie Ray, Bee Gees, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, George Formby, Al Jolson, Liberace, Billy Murray, Liza Minnelli, Sid Phillips, Bessie Smith and Julie Andrews.

* Bing Crosby recorded another duet version, and hit the top-20 in 1947 with Al Jolson.

When the movie's star, Al Jolson, sings, however, the film shifts to sound recorded on the set, including both his musical performances and two scenes with ad-libbed speech — one of Jolson's character, Jakie Rabinowitz ( Jack Robin ), addressing a cabaret audience ; the other an exchange between him and his mother.

In September, the studio released another Al Jolson part-talking picture, The Singing Fool, which more than doubled The Jazz Singers earnings record for a Warners movie.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

In 1928, the song " Golden Gate ", sung by Al Jolson, included the refrain: " Oh, Golden Gate, I'm comin ' to ya / Golden Gate, sing Hallelujah / I'll live in the sun, love in the moon / Where every month is June.

Warner ( left ), Al Jolson, and Darryl F. Zanuck, 1927

Whites who performed in blackface in film included Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple and Judy Garland.

Al Fike, an ex-schoolteacher from Colorado, is currently pursuing the three R's -- rhythm, reminiscence and repartee -- in a return class session at the Trade Winds Hotel.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

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However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

Other important Arabic astrologers include Albumasur and Al Khwarizmi, the Persian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, who is considered the father of algebra and the algorithm.

" Walt would say to Al, ' Of course, Al, this is really how you should draw Daisy Mae, I'm only showing you this for your own good.

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

Al Capp, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum ( formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art ), is one of only 31 artists selected to their Hall of Fame.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

Kitchen is currently compiling a biographical monograph on Al Capp.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Pashtuns living in Pakhtunkhwa ( present-day western Pakistan ) had not been completely converted.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Afghans who lived in west of India ( modern-day Afghanistan ) had not been completely converted to Islam.

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Aluminium also causes a highly beneficial hard layer of aluminium oxide ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >) to be formed on the surface that is thin, transparent and self-healing.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

In Palestinian folk tradition, Ayyub's place of trial is Al-Joura, a village outside the town of Al Majdal ( Ashkelon ).

Furthermore, his 1935 version of " St. Louis Blues " is nearly a word-for-word copy of Al Bernard's patter on his 1928 recording of the same song.

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The world record for the largest continuously poured concrete raft was achieved in August 2007 in Abu Dhabi by contracting firm Al Habtoor-CCC Joint Venture and the concrete supplier is Unibeton Ready Mix

The Canadian Jewish Congress has expressed its opinion over possible anti-Semitic incitement on this station and that the restrictions on Al Jazeera are appropriate, while the Canadian B ' nai Brith is opposed to any approval of Al Jazeera in Canada.