Al Jolson----"About A Quarter To Nine" (REPOST)

Original video: • Video
Original date: Dec 25, 2007
Original views: 716,516 views (Jun 1, 2022)
Original channel: / mackie2070
Original description: From The 1935 Movie "Go Into Your Dance"

I wonder why the first upload was removed. I love this musical number. Certainly one of my favorites. It's just beautiful. Beautiful music, beautiful set, and I love the "dated" effects, it adds such a surreal vintage charm. It's magical

[@JC-nl3nh]

its absolutely amazing. I truly believe one day we will see a renaissance of American culture like this!

[@mikeymik2]

Back in the 60s - 70s my dad used to go around the house singing Mammy to the tune of Swanee. That's how I got introduced to Al Jolson.

[@patricklyndon7121]

Sensational voice, that's the way it was then 😊

[@JC-nl3nh]

absolutely delightful. how can one be offended by this?

[@thedrownedbaldman8411]

I,m glad that the video came back

[@JC-nl3nh]

same, how can anyone possibly be offended by this joyful art?

[@vikinghex]

i have never understood what it is about Jolson's voice that is so contagious it just grabs you but why its one on its own

[@charliechilders6630]

When I was 15 or 16 years old I purchased the Decca cut out album 2 record set The Best of Al Jolson. From then on I became a very huge fan of this electrifying singer. When ever I played this recording I have always been overwhelmed and excited dancing, while always singing along. This man was magic just like Judy Garland!!😱🤗🥰

[@debbyharrison9198]

Fantastic

[@TedWms521]

Love this video, especially the first half, b ut it's impossible not to recoil from the blackface. It was the times but chronological forgiveness only goes so far. My father loved Jolson.

[@victorluque1659]

Aqui desde Perú escuchando a Al Jolson, algun joven a parte de mi que le gusta estas canciones?

[@MartinTellColomboFernandez]

Yo, desde Argentina. Probablemente uno de los pocos. Saludos.

[@margaretthomas8899]

Al Jolson records, movies were all ways enjoyed in Argentina, and other South American countries. For somebody going back as far as he did, prior to mass world wide media communication, and singing mostly in English, It is incredible!@@MartinTellColomboFernandez

[@marcoandres8830]

​@margaretthomas8899 how do people know him in south america?

[@margaretthomas8899]

Via movies, and recordings, like Malta, China even@@marcoandres8830

[@MartinTellColomboFernandez]

@@marcoandres8830 He was very popular at that time. I don' t know HOW popular was here in South America or especifically here in Argentina (my country), but he was very known for he's songs. In the '50s, argentine comedian actor Alfredo Barbieri played tribute and impersonate him (doing playback) in some movies.

[@richardblayneamerican8149]

Robert Wagner wrote in his autobiography that Barbara Stanwyck described Jolson as "a son of a bitch". But he was one hell of a showman.

[@pianoredux7516]

Jolson was incomparable. And the tune! By Harry Warren, the least famous of all the great songwriters. He, too, was great. Jolson's wife Ruby Keeler in one of her better dance performances. Unfortunately the blackface vignette is deeply cringey.