The Jazz Singer, termed as the first talkie, as it progresses, drains you out. In and around the 45th minute, one of my favourites, the earliest form of ‘Blue Skies’ written by Irving Berlin in 1926, is doled out by Al Jolson.
Blue Skies have been performed by many artists, notably Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Ben Webster, Errol Garner, Count Basie, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson, Eva Cassidy, and Rod Stewart,
Irving Berlin
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