How the USO brought a little bit of Hollywood to the boys serving overseas.

Before he was a rock legend, Rod Stewart was a young music fan soaking up the sounds of the 1950s and '60s - and he once ...

My friend Binky Sears’ grandfather actually knew Al Jolson. I'll tell you the story.>> See the video archive of Fritz's stories My friend Binky Sears’ grandfather actually knew Al Jolson. I'll tell ...

Jolson's singing proves the big excitement for this Technicolorful film biog of the great mammy-singer's career. The Jolson Story emerges as an American success story in song. The yearning to sing to ...

WITH a first-night audience clapping and bellowing with joy at the end of his first picture, at the Warner Theatre, Mr. Al Jolson stepped to the front of the stage with a tear in his eye and said he ...

Rod Stewart might be celebrated today as the raspy-voiced rocker behind classics like Maggie May and Sailing, but his musical education started somewhere far less rebellious - with his parents’ record ...

A third-season episode of the television show “Mad Men,” titled “My Old Kentucky Home,” finds Don Draper and the crew from Sterling Cooper at a Kentucky Derby party. But it’s not the racing horses ...

Long-time New York and Paris gallery Marian Goodman has opened in Los Angeles with a show of director and artist Steve McQueen’s short film, Sunshine State. Shown on two back-to-back screens in a ...

McQueen narrates the story of his father who narrowly escaped death as a young man in Florida in his new film 'Sunshine State,' which incorporates footage from 'The Jazz Singer.' By Degen Pener Deputy ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Vacation photos from a church trip to Israel fail to tell the story of the harrowing end of the journey as war broke out around them. That group from Grace Point Church is finally ...

SAN DIEGO — On October 3rd, Kate Jolson embarked on a journey she has been looking forward to for two years. ""Finally we made it... Not the greatest of times, but," said Jolson. What was meant to be ...

On Oct. 6, 1927, The Jazz Singer had its premiere in New York City. Today, the Warner Brothers movie is often referred to as the first “talkie,” or motion picture with sound. It wasn’t, but Warner’s ...