Rod Stewart's musical journey began not with rock anthems, but with the unexpected influence of his parents' record ...

The Jazz Singer, with its scenes of caftan-clad rabbis and cantors and the chanting of Kol Nidre in an actual Orthodox ...

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he ...

About the Album: In the 1920s, Al Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer and dubbed The World's Greatest Entertainer. He popularised many songs that benefited from his ...

About the Album: Rare performances curated by Chip Deffaa. Forty-five songs are heard, whole or in part, including salutes by Jolson, Cantor, and Durante to "the man who owned Broadway," George M.

Charley Scalies, the beloved Philadelphia character actor best known for his roles on HBO's iconic series The Wire and The ...

Did you know elephants have long trunks? The first YouTube video delivers that little-known bit of animal knowledge -- and after that, things really got going.

The formula was simple: find the prettiest girl in town and the handsomest male.

The youngest of three children, Charles Joseph Scalies Jr. was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1940, and raised in South ...

Abandoned by his dad Salvatore Pacino, when he was just two-years-old, Pacino - nicknamed Sonny Boy after an Al Jolson song - and his mum, Rose, lived in a series of cheap furnished rooms ...