The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.
Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.
The Best of Jolson
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Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like.
These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.
If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
| 1 - Swanee
Composer(s) : G. Gershwin; I. Caesar
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| 2 - You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
Composer(s) : J. V. Monaco; McCarthy
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| 3 - When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
Composer(s) : H. Woods
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| 4 - Medley: I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover; Baby Face
Composer(s) : H. Woods; M. Dixon; B. Davis; H. Akst
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| 5 - Sonny Boy
Composer(s) : A. Jolson; B. G. DeSylva; L. Brown; R. Henderson
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| 6 - There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Composer(s) : A. Jolson; B. Rose; D. Dreyer
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| 7 - Avalon
Composer(s) : V. Rose; A. Jolson; B. G. DeSylva
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| 8 - Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo'Bye)
Composer(s) : G. Kahn; E. Erdman; D. Russo
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| 9 - April Showers
Composer(s) : L. Silvers; B. G. DeSylva
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| 10 - Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
Composer(s) : J. Schwartz; S. Lewis; J. Young
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| 11 - Medley: Ma (She's Makin' Eyes At Me); Dinah
Composer(s) : S. Clare; C. Conrad; S. Lewis; J. Young; H. Akst
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| 12 - Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)
Composer(s) : G. Gershwin; G. Kahn; I. Gershwin
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| 13 - Carolina In the Morning
Composer(s) : W. Donaldson; G. Kahn
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| 14 - I Wish I Had a Girl
Composer(s) : G. Le Boy; G. Kahn
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| 15 - California, Here I Come
Composer(s) : J. Meyer; A. Jolson; B. G. DeSylva
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| 16 - Ma Blushin' Rosie (Ma Posie Sweet)
Composer(s) : J. Stromberg; E. Smith
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| 17 - Medley: My Melancholy Baby; My Blue Heaven
Composer(s) : E. Burnett-G. Norton-M. E. Watson; W. Donaldson-G. Whiting
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| 18 - My Mammy
Composer(s) : W. Donaldson-S. Lewis-J. Young
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| 19 - Margie
Composer(s) : C. Conrad-R. Robinson
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| 20 - Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
Composer(s) : I. Berlin
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| 21 - When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Composer(s) : J. Thornton
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| 22 - Anniversary Song
Composer(s) : A. Jolson-S. Chaplin
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| 23 - If Only I Had a Match
Composer(s) : L. Morris-A. Johnston-G. W. Meyer
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| 24 - Easter Parade
Composer(s) : I. Berlin
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| 25 - About a Quarter To Nine
Composer(s) : H. Warren-A. Dublin
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| 26 - Ol' Man River
Composer(s) : O. Hammerstein II-J. Kern
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| 27 - She's a Latin from Manhattan
Composer(s) : H. Warren-A. Dubin
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| 28 - I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Composer(s) : H. Carroll-J. MacCarthy
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