2020 ONLINE FUNCTION
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If you do experience any problems with the following presentations it might be due to personal technical ones, or even something within the laws of the Internet, much of the content is of an extreme vintage.
seat and join us"!
"Use the scroll on the right to get to the presentations below."
PLEASE NOTE
If you do experience any problems with the following presentations it might be due to personal technical ones, or even something within the laws of the Internet, much of the content is of an extreme vintage.
Opening into and some brief detail.
Honorary's Loris Young and Kevin Trask expose and promote the society and Al Jolson on radio 94.1 FM (3WBC) 3AW and
96.5 FM (3INR).
96.5 FM (3INR).
Reconstructed vision of Al Jolson at Brunswick Records.
A few tender ballads from the 1940s.
A greeting from Kevin Trask (left) seen here with Barry Humphries and Philip Brady at a Dame Edna Everage Concert.
Al Jolson recorded many songs not used in both The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again, here is a few from Sings Again.
As will be shown at an upcoming society function. Al Jolson set the bar for later greats like Bobby Darin, Liza Minnelli, Eddie Fisher and others. Here via modern technology he shares a song with somebody who absolutely adored him!
A greeting from Mark Girdwood
The above two presentations consist of a few scenes from movies not yet screened at functions.
A very famous estate.
Two entertainment legends reflect on the world's greatest entertainer.
In the 1949 movie Jolson Sings Again there is a sequence where Al Jolson insists he is too old to go and entertain the troops, they need a younger guy to do it, nobody remembers him? To which his manager replies "but all show business knows you"! The above three extracts show clearly that this is still very true!
A few final words.