About the Album: Rare early recordings, some live, of Al Jolson from Chip Deffaa's own ... "Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," "My Mammy," "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World," "You-Hoo ...

Upon receiving a copy of Richard Bernstein’s “Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz ... He also does not discuss Jolson’s later films, among them “Mammy” (1930), the first of two ...

His best pictures were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beau Brummel. Mammy (Warner). It is strange but inescapably true that Al Jolson can sometimes make his kind of song—intrinsically tawdry though ...

Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Daniel Breaker, Will Chase, Ana Gasteyer, and Nikki Renée Daniels will appear at The Museum of ...

From the early 1910s to the late 1940s, Bernstein writes, “there was nobody…bigger than Al Jolson.” He “was part of a cohort of entertainers whose roots were in the Russian Empire and who ...

Vinyl records are said to have a richer sound than digital formats. Unlike listening to an MP3 file, listening to an album on vinyl is an interactive experience. You need to stick around and flip the ...

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor apartment. The Soviet-style block hadn’t changed much since he last ...

The founder of Mammy Market in military barracks across the country, Maria Ochefu, is dead. Her son, Professor Yakubu Ochefu, who spoke to our correspondent on the phone on Thursday, said that she ...

My eyes skipped past the cards and bouquets at the till. The day and its words – Mother, Mammy, Mum – were words of loss etched on a headstone. And then one day they applied to me. I lost my ...

The news has sparked an outpouring of condolences from Nigerians, particularly those familiar with the significance of Mammy Markets in barrack communities. She pioneered the markets, which have ...

It is CERAWeek, the sprawling Texas energy conference, and Sultan al-Jaber, who runs the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), one of the world’s largest oil companies, is in high demand.

Photo: Lucinda O'Sullivan If you don’t want to be on the mammy’s naughty step on Mother’s Day, I do hope you’ll have something better than garage flowers and cheap choccies in your paw ...