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Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody) - Sam Harris sings Al Jolson

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"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" is a popular song written by Jean Schwartz, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. The song was published in 1918.
Probably the best-known recordings of the song were by Al Jolson (who introduced it) and Judy Garland. It was also a hit for Jerry Lewis in the 1950s. Aretha Franklin also recorded a lesser-known version of this song, which reached #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.  In the 1950s, it was issued on the Peter Pan Records label, aimed at children, on a 45 RPM record as the flip side of "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along".
The song lends itself to easy adaptation. Harvey Fierstein sang it to Katie Couric during her last day hosting the Today show: "Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye Katie with a goodbye melody". Also Cher recorded the song for her album Bittersweet White Light (1973).

Lyrics:

Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a tune
From the heart of Dixie.
Hang that cradle mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya.

Weap no more my lady.
Mammy sing it again for me.
And old black Joe
Just as though
You had me on your knee.
A million baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing the Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody.

Rock-a-bye,
Hush-a-bye
With a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a tune
from the heart of Dixie
Hang that cradle mammy mine
Right on that Mason-Dixon line
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the soul that's in ya.

Mammy, mammy listen to what they're playing.
They're playing Weap No More My Lady.
Sing it for me.
And old black Joe
Just as though
You had me on your knee.
A thousand baby kisses I'll deliver
If you will only sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody!

According to Esquire magazine, "J. J. Shubert, impressed by Jolsons overpowering display of energy, booked him for La Belle Paree, a musical comedy which opened at the Winter Garden in 1911. Within a month Jolson was a star. From then until 1926, when he retired from the stage, he could boast an unbroken series of smash hits."

On March 20, 1911, Jolson starred in his first play at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City, La Belle Paree, which also greatly helped launch his career as a singer. The opening night drew a huge crowd to the theater, and that evening Jolson gained audience popularity by singing old Stephen Foster songs in blackface. In the wake of that phenomenal opening night, Jolson was given a position in the show's cast. The show closed after 104 performances, and during its run Jolson's popularity grew greatly. Following La Belle Paree, Jolson accepted an offer to perform in the play Vera Violetta. The show opened on November 20, 1911, and, like La Belle Paree, was a phenomenal success. In the show, Jolson again portrayed the role of a blackface singer, and managed to become so popular, that his weekly salary- which he earned from his success in La Belle Paree- of $500 was increased to $750.[5]:98-117

After Vera Violetta ran its course, Jolson starred in The Whirl of Society, and through this play, his career on Broadway would rise to new heights. During his time at the Winter Garden, Jolson would tell the audience "you ain't heard nothing yet" before performing additional songs. In the play, Jolson debuted his signature blackface character, "Gus." The play was so successful, that Winter Garden owner Lee Shubert agreed to sign Jolson to a seven year contract with a salary of $1,000 a week. Jolson would reprise his role as "Gus" in future plays and by 1914, Jolson achieved so much popularity with the theater audience that his $1,000 a week salary was doubled to $2,000 a week. In 1916, Robinson Crusoe, Jr. was the first play where he was featured as the star character. In 1918, Jolson's acting career would be pushed even further, after he starred in the hit play Sinbad.   It became the most successful Broadway play of 1918 and 1919. A new song was later added to the show that would become composer George Gershwin's first hit recording, "Swanee". Jolson also added another song to the show, "My Mammy". By 1920, Jolson had become the biggest star on Broadway.

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Swanee (How I Love Ya) - Sam Harris sings Al Jolson ...



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Swanee (How I Love Ya) - Sam Harris sings Al Jolson

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SWANEE
(George Gershwin/Irving Caesar)
Lyrics:

I've been away from you along time
I never thought I'd miss 'ya so
Somehow I feel, your love is real
Near you I wanna be.

The Birds are singing it is songtime
The banjos strumming soft and low
I know that you yearn for me to swanee you're calling me

Chorus
Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee.
I'd give the world to be among the folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for me,
praying for me down by the swanne.
The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that swanee shore

I love the old folks at home
Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee. I'd give the world to be among the
folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for
me, praying for me down by the swanee.
The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that swanee shore.

Al Jolson (May 26, 1886   October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and actor. According to PBS, he is considered the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America". His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.

His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel".

In the 1930s he was America's most famous and highest paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Yet he's best remembered today for his leading role in the first (full length) talking movie ever made, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. He starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with the 1946 Oscar-winning biographical film, The Jolson Story. Larry Parks played Jolson with the songs dubbed in with Jolsons real voice. A sequel, Jolson Sings Again, was released in 1949, and was nominated for three Oscars. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jolson became the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II, and again in 1950 became the first star to perform for GIs in Korea, doing 42 shows in 16 days.

According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, "Jolson was to jazz, blues, and ragtime what Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll". Being the first popular singer to make a spectacular "event" out of singing a song, he became a rock star before the dawn of rock music. His specialty was building stage runways extending out into the audience. He would run up and down the runway and across the stage, "teasing, cajoling, and thrilling the audience", often stopping to sing to individual members, all the while the "perspiration would be pouring from his face, and the entire audience would get caught up in the ecstasy of his performance".

He enjoyed performing in blackface makeup  a theatrical convention in the early 20th century. With his unique and dynamic style of singing black music, like jazz and blues, he was later credited with single-handedly introducing African-American music to white audiences. As early as 1911 he became known for fighting against anti-black discrimination on Broadway. Jolson's well-known theatrics and his promotion of equality on Broadway helped pave the way for many black performers, playwrights, and songwriters, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Ethel Waters.

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How to enjoy the first ever virtual living YULETUBE LOG!

This is a perfect 20 minute break in your work day at the office!

A perfect yuletide video fireplace right on your computer screen, any time you want!
With highest quality video, stereo audio and high definition TV picture resolution.

First make sure you select the "HQ" icon at the bottom of the widescreen video for HDTV quality, and the button the opens the video to FULL SCREEN so it fills your entire computer monitor.  Dim the lights if you can, and sit back to relax and listen.  We have selected six of the softest songs from Sam's album "On This Night", mixed together to blend smoothly, and with a bit of invigoration at the end with Sam's self penned song "All I Need This Christmas", to get you back on track to your daily routine.  The order played in the video is:
1) THE FIRST NOEL
2) LITTLE DRUMMER BOY
3) THE CHRISTMAS SONG
4) HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
5) ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH
6) ALL I NEED THIS CHRISTMAS

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ON THIS NIGHT

"On This Night" is an eclectic mix of classic Christmas and holiday standards, along with original seasonal songs.  Sam soothes the soul on favorites such as "Chestnuts" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" but gets naughty on "Santa's Blues".

*  The First Noel
* The Christmas Song
  (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
* All I Need This Christmas
* Little Drummer Boy
* Angels We Have Heard On High
* Santa's Blues
* Hava Nashira (Let Us Sing)
* On This Night
* A World Of Difference
* Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
* O Holy Night


Back in 2001,​ Sam recor​ded "​Merry​ Chris​tmas Darli​ng"​ which​ was produ​ced by Tony Moran​,​ to benef​it "​Broad​way Cares​"​ Equit​y Fight​s AIDS.​

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5 Star Broadway World REVIEW:
"This guy is so talented and this Holiday recording, which I didn't even know existed .... is no exception.  This one produced, arranged and orchestrated by his longtime Musical Director, Todd Schroeder and Harris, himself.  ... would make for great surprise stocking-stuffers!"
-- Naomi Plume

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Sam is still dealing with rehabilitating his knee, so he is double tasking with his exercise routine and answering some questions from the Vlog People...

* Happy Anniversary Sam and Danny!

* What's in the works?

* Documenting Mormons.

* TV, movie and Broadway stuff coming!

* Jet Blue in the face.

* Feel or formulate the music?

* First Wives Club not the last.

* A quiet rainbow connection thing.

* Obama, WTF?

* Keep talking about the talk show.

* Lifetime of waiting.

* FOX in the hole.

* OWN Oprah.

* See BS.

* Magic Circles.

* Zand for Monkey Pox .

* Bi and bye.

* How do you use what you got?

* Aim for the art, not the star.

* Souled out.

* Summer in San Francisco.

* The Gospel of Oprah.

* You can't make me tell you.

* Berkeley boy.

* Twist of my sobriety.

* Liza with a Tony

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* Help yourself.

* My laughing baby.

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Sam Harris: a soul singer
 
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer
Published: 11/2/2009  2:21 AM
Last Modified: 11/2/2009  9:46 AM

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Sam and Todd were asked to perform at a benefit honoring Wanda Sykes.   Here you find behind the scenes footage from rehearsal and performance of the Eric Clapton song "Change The World".    Hosted by the Family Equality Council who fight for civil rights of gay families.  The Council present the Leffew Family their Equality Circle Award.  You can get to know them on their own YouTube channel at: http://youtube.com/depfox

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"We are: Jay, Bryan, Daniel, and Selena, known on youtube as the Depfox family. When Prop 8 was approved in California on November 4'th, 2008, we were a private family living in Northern California. Like many other gay families, we were angered and saddened by its passage but, had nowhere to go to express that anger or to talk with others who understood what it means to have your rights stripped away in such a manner. We did a search for "gay families" on the internet and found nothing reflecting what our lives really looked like.

Thus we put our first video onto Youtube. Just a simple video of our family sitting around the dinner table talking to Youtube listeners about Prop 8. That video did better than we could have ever expected and we saw a need to show people what a gay family really looked like. We wanted to put a face on the fight for marriage equality and to break some stereotypes about GLBT families.

The purpose of this sight is to support the GLBT community in a variety of ways: First, to continue to show the world what a gay family looks like in a raw and unvarnished way. This has always been the aim of all our Youtube videos. This site will serve as an archive and alterative source to view those videos. We also wish to provide news on the fight for marriage equality from all over the nation.

Secondly, we wish To show young GLBT people that they too can have the lives they want but have been told they cannot have. We have recieved countless Emails from young GLBT people stating that they didn't believe that they would ever be able to meet someone fall in love, and have a family. Our answer to everyone who feels this way is,..."Yes you can!" We are glad that our videos provide hope and show that building a family is possible. Jay and I felt the same way as many of you did When we first came out, but we did it and so can you. We have been asked often "how we adopted" and in this site we hope to give the GLBT community, resources and support to begin their own family building journey."

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About The Family Equality Council ...

In 1979 a group of gay fathers got together and formed the group that would eventually become Family Equality Council. Knowing that there were other gay dads out there somewhere, they were committed to finding one another and forming a network of support.

Originally called the Gay Fathers Coalition, in 1986 this fathers group expanded to include lesbian moms, prompting a name change to the Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International (GLPCI), a volunteer grassroots chapter-based organization whose primary purpose was to connect with and support local gay and lesbian parenting groups, while advancing the cause of the lesbian and gay parenting community.

Children of LGBTQ parents have unique needs and learn, grow and find support with one another. In 1990, a group of youth convened and initiated a new program of GLPCI, called Just For Us. By the mid 1990s that group had established a steering committee and separate program status, and shortly thereafter the group changed its name to Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE). In 1999, the GLPCI Board of Directors endorsed the wishes of COLAGE to become an independent organization, operating under its own tax-exempt status. COLAGE became an independent organization on January 1, 1999.

In 1998, recognizing our growing movement and the need to lead by being inclusive examples, GLPCI changed its name to the Family Pride Coalition in order to include bisexual and transgender parents. In 2007, in order to better capture the full breadth and scope of our work and our collective vision of a world that treats all loving families equally, we thought it was important to change our name to Family Equality Council. Our new name and expanded vision reinforce our commitment to working across communities and issues and to joining forces with other progressive advocacy groups to create meaningful change for all loving families.

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Sam takes you to the Divas Simply Singing sound check where you see the stars of the show singing a Michael Jackson tribute of "Man In The Mirror".  He also gives you a taste of him rehearsing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" with the music director.

The concert featured Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Yolanda Adams, Brenda Russell, Jenifer Lewis, Barbara Morrison, Frenchie Davis, N'dambi, Yo Yo, Niecy Nash, Gabi Wilson,  Faith Evans, Tamia,  Althea Rene, Tadashi, Kelly Price, and Sam Harris, among others.

Sam is singing "Bridge Over Troubled Water", a dance remix at the end of the video.  The song was remixed by Junior Vasquez, and is NOT AVAILABLE. However, the original song is available on Sam's album entitled "Revival" and is available for download at http://SamTunes.NET or on CD at http://SamHarris.com

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What is the DIVA FOUNDATION?...

The Diva Foundation is a national not-for-profit 501(C)3 charitable organization that was founded by Sheryl Lee Ralph, in 1990, as a memorial to the many friends she had lost to HIV/AIDS. The organization focuses on generating resources and coordinating activities to create awareness of and combat against HIV/AID. The DIVA Foundation utilizes music and entertainment as a vehicle to inform, educate and erase the stigma attached to this deadly disease.

For the past 19 years Sheryl Lee Ralph's DIVA Foundation has presented, with sponsorship from caring companies, DIVAS SIMPLY SINGING! - a magical evening of song and entertainment created to assist Los Angeles AIDS organizations efforts to raise funds and awareness, allowing them to continue to help and support those in need. The Diva Foundation has acted locally but is widening its sphere of influence to include more HIV/AIDS organizations around the country and globe.

Part of the Sheryl Lee Ralph's Home Fragrance Collection, uniquely scented, elegant candles; provide another way for others to help light the light of compassion as we fight the good fight against HIV/AIDS. Partial proceeds from the sale of these candles support the DIVA FOUNDATION and are tax-deductible.

Our awareness campaign has grown to include: "Sometimes I Cry" a one woman-show written and performed by Sheryl Lee Ralph, town hall meetings, prevention seminars, free HIV testing, HIV/AIDS counseling, and free healthcare materials. A sponsored luncheon, where gloves must be worn to drive home the slogan: "No glove, No love!!", and hosted by Sheryl Lee Ralph, community leaders and health experts, provides a non-threatening, intimate atmosphere where guests can get much needed information, address critical issues, ask questions and be assured of an educated and informed answer. Ms. Ralph has recorded a series of HIV awareness PSAs for grass roots organizations in need of assistance.

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