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SONGS:
“ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?”
(1926)
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SINGERS:
“AL JOLSON”
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(“vaudeville” (/ˈvɔːdvɪl, –dəvɪl/; French: [vodvil]) is a theatrical genre of ‘variety entertainment’)
(it was especially popular in the ‘united states’ and ‘canada’ from the ‘early 1880s’ until the ‘early 1930s’)
(a typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill)
(types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies)
(a vaudeville performer is often referred to as a “vaudevillian”)
(“vaudeville” developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and “literary american burlesque”)
(called “the heart of american show business”, ‘vaudeville’ was one of the most popular types of entertainment in ‘north america’ for several decades)
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