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Description Al Jolson's recording of George Gershwin's "Swanee". Composed in 1919, Al Jolson recorded for Columbia Records in January 1920, and it became a runaway hit
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Source https://web.archive.org/web/20080507032118/http://al-jolson-swanee-1920-a-mp3-download.kohit.net/_/136421
Author
  • Sung by Al Jolson (1886–1950)
George Gershwin  (1898–1937)  wikidata:Q123829 s:en:Author:George Gershwin q:en:George Gershwin
 
George Gershwin
Alternative names
Birth name: Jacob Gershwine; pseudonym: Gershwin; Jacob Gershvin; Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz; George Jacob Gershwin; Dzhordzh Gershvin
Description American- composer, jazz pianist, songwriter, film score composer, painter and conductor
Date of birth/death 26 September 1898 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1937 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Brooklyn Edit this at Wikidata Hollywood Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1914 Edit this at Wikidata–1937 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q123829
  • Lyrics by Irving Caesar (1895–1996)
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