Hello Tim, I did not know he entertained the troops after 1940, I sent the link
in the event someone else was like me. The thought of a major star using a
ten year old portable is very funny to me. In my mind I see him lip syncing to
his mammy song and his special assistant winding the victrola changing the
needle after each record. You should write a book on all the personally owned
items. Thanks so much, Steve
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:46:09 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] AL JOLSON'S VICTOR 2-65 ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA?
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> Of course Al Jolson entertained the troops in the 1940s. But if you think he
> was carrying around a 10-plus-year-old portable Victrola, then I guess he
> wasn't getting paid the kind of money his staredom would have merited. (Not
> getting paid to entertain the troops, but getting paid from his other
> entrainment activities to be able to afford a new Victrola.)
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> TF
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> From: Steven Medved <[email protected]>
> To: phono-l <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wed, Dec 26, 2012 7:37 pm
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] AL JOLSON'S VICTOR 2-65 ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA?
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SinJgcJQhII
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> http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-NA001477.jpg?size=67&uid=dbb4b702-f7fe-420c-aa83-03a587d44190
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> Looks like he had a live piano player.
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> > To: [email protected]
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:27:22 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] AL JOLSON'S VICTOR 2-65 ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA?
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> > What troops, exactly, was Al Jolson entertaining? We were not at war
> 1919-1941, and had relatively small armed forces during that period.
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> > If I told you the number of Edison Phonographs and other objects that were
> "personally owned" by Thomas Edison over the past 43 years, you'd be
> surprised
> --- or not!
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> > Tim Fabrizio
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Medved <[email protected]>
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> > Sent: Wed, Dec 26, 2012 5:29 pm
> > Subject: [Phono-L] AL JOLSON'S VICTOR 2-65 ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA?
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