Al Jolson - California Here I Come

California Here I Come   By Al Jolson Good Condition Although this album is part of the British Conifer label's "Movie Stars" series, that is not to say that all the selections come from Al Jolson's movies. Rather, as annotator Geoff Milne puts it, "The songs on this LP are from shows, from Jolson's films, and from nowhere in particular -- just popular songs of the day." The description hints at the basically random selection of 20 Jolson recordings originally released on Brunswick Records between 1924 and 1932. Tunes such as "California, Here I Come," "I'm Sitting On Top of the World," "Sonny Boy," and "There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulders" rank among Jolson's most popular records of the period. Others, such as the two selections from Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's score for the Jolson film Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, the title song and "You Are Too Beautiful," Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Ol' Man River" from the musical Show Boat, and the Irving Berlin songs "Lazy" and "At P