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TIL The song "My Mammy" famously sung by Al Jolson in the first talkie film "The Jazz Singer"in 1927, was first sung in 1918 as a vaudeville act by William Frawley, who later became a star in the TV show "I Love Lucy".

by /u/greed-man in /r/todayilearned

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