1. You say "This song is about a guy who watches his girl leave on a train......." Actually, he is leaving: "the choochoo train that takes ME away from you......"
2. tuttsi
3. "Gimmie a Break" actually brought me here! It was used in an episode where a young Joey Lawrence was in blackface and Nell Carter informed Joey that "Al Jolson WASN'T black"! (And Nell dropped the N-Bomb in the episode)!
4. LOL yeah right. 
5. I'm less concerned with the makeup, and more concerned with the fact that Al looks like he wants to devour my soul here
6. You idiots making the comments about racism need to just leave, this is a music download and im sure others dont want to read your insecure, ridiculous comments about it.
7. Fabulous song. Brilliant arrangement. Wonderful Jolson.
8. i'm glad you feel like that. so i will dress up as an SS Officer and trick or treat in the jewish part of the city
9. i still don't understand who are all these people commenting on these videos
10. At the time Al Jolson was the best, he was no racist, just a great singer.
11. plus: the Blackface was the idea of a black friend of Al, not his own!
12. black face should still be in practice its awesome
13. Just enjoy the song.
14. True. Makes me laugh because people those days never even thought of things like some say in comments on here. It's only since the PC brigade dictated. They should just enjoy the music.
15. Al Jolson, was a fantastic entertainer, i wish the world would stop adding ism's . People are just to touchy, get a life
16. If there are one people who understand the black people it is the Jewish people,I am saying this as a Jew who used to go out trick and treating in blackface,but as a person who has seen it over and over again,I love Jolson, we need to take a step back and laugh at our selves.
17. I wonder if Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg ever did this routine?
18. Do we get upset when people of other cultures dye their hair blonde or red? Nope. People stop making something out of nothing. If someone wants to look like you - so long as they aren't saying or doing nasty things - take it as a compliment. Let's stop all this nonsense! People in the past didn't think the way we do today.
19. Here in the UK, we used to have a television programme called "The Black & White Minstrel Show, where the singers "blacked-up". Killed off by the righteous PC brigade. Excellent show, a victim of the left-wing luvvies.
20. You my friend are right. For years i thought he was being a racist. However, again society, all white, had made him 2 be racist so we would not discover the black music of that time period.
21. Al Jolson was in fact not racist. He used this to popularize black music. As a matter of fact black people in general were thankful to Jolson for popularizing their style of music to the white audiences.
22. My jam
23. Let's all just have some Ovaltine....
24. i know you assholes! i was be sarcastic! jesus!!!
25. Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville

Al Jolson - Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye

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This song is about a guy who watches his girl leave on a train and promises to write. It is often performed with train whistles. Jolson sang this in The Jazz Singer, which is the first feature-length movie with talking sequences. The song was also recorded by Gus Kahn, Ted Fio Rito, Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo (all in 1922) and by Eddie Cantor, who also popularized the song. Cantor (real name Israel Iskowitz), was called "Banjo Eyes." Al Jolson (May 28, 1886 -- October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer" Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the "dandified coon". blackface minstrel shows were the national art of the time, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right, until it ended in the United States with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The Netherlands continues to celebrate St. Nicolas Eve with Zwarte Piet in full blackface Moorish costume.
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