Doug Elliot Sings "Songs That Al Jolson Made Famous"

Doug Elliot was one of the many victims vocalists who had to record covers of songs that only the original stars made the song famous could make sound right. I have uploaded this whole album on Youtube (which takes some time as I only post a track or two a day so that each selection get an equal chance of being viewed by my loyal subscribers), and this poor artist had a lot of "virtual" rotten tomatoes thrown at him. The jacket features (a now politically incorrect picture) a man, perhaps Doug Elliot himself, in black face (again now considered very racist and not politically correct).

The selections feature some famous Al Jolson tunes and some old Steven Foster standards such as "Old Folks At Home" and "Camptown Races."

 The liner notes were supposedly written by the artist to hear singing (or hacking to death the Al Jolson style by some of my Youtube subscribers). Note that is album was quickly dropped from the Crown catalog; very shortly after this album's initial release, it was dropped off the list of "Albums Available On Crown Records."

Robert E. Lee (First selection)

The rest of the album can be found in this playlist that you can see by clicking here.