Jolson was touring military hospitals, and had recently met Erle Galbraith, fated to become the fourth Mrs. Al Jolson, when he flew to New York to appear with Tommy Dorsey on this program, Your All Time Hit Parade. Not to be confused with the Hit Parade shows of the same era, this program was broadcast on a different network, and featured the very best in entertainment.

Appearing with legendary bandleader Tommy Dorsey, and introduced by veteran announcer and sidekick Harry Von Zell, Al Jolson was presented to the radio audience as a legendary entertainer, who had just completed a tour entertaining the troops abroad. You can hear the personal admiration in Von Zell's voice as he introduces The World's Greatest Entertainer, and uses Jolie's tag line, "You ain't heard nothin' yet!"

The program begins with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra and "Little White Lies." After that, Mr. Jolson makes his entrance, and tells yet another version of the origin of this song, singing "Ma Blushin' Rosie" as only he could.

The Sentimentalists then gave out with "I'll Be Seeing You," and Bonnie Lou Williams sang "You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me."

Returning to center stage, Mr. Jolson told of how this next song was requested wherever he went, singing "April Showers." These two Jolson recordings were pressed into V-Discs, and sent to servicemen in combat for their entertainment. The program closed with the Tommy Dorsey version of "Body and Soul."

Within a year, the Jolson Story would be in production, and by 1946 Al Jolson would practically own the airwaves. But here is a look at a legend before the comeback, who was still The World's Greatest Entertainer.

Ma Blushin' Rosie During the broadcast version of this song, Al Jolson reached deeply into his war torn lungs to get to the high note in the chorus, singing "I want to say!" and "emoting" on the second chorus. In the rehearsal version, heard here, it is a much more laid back performance, with the above theme sung in a lower, more comfortable, region.		April Showers Although it has been written that Al Jolson did not include the recitory second chorus in this song when he first recorded it in 1945 for The Jolson Story, he clearly did include it here. However, note that the last note, on the word "along" is sung as one note, where on the Decca recordings the older three note slur was restored. Listen to the version in the Permanent Collection as a comparison of these two variations.