March     20, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“It can be revealed for the first time that it was in San Francisco [in 1906] that Al Jolson first uttered his immortal slogan, ‘You ain’t heard nuttin’ yet!’  One  night at the café he had just finished a song when a deafening burst of noise from a building project across the street  drowned out the applause. At the top of his lungs, Jolson screamed, ‘You  think that’s noise - you ain’t heard nuttin’ yet!’ And he proceeded to deliver an encore which for sheer blasting  put to everlasting shame all the decibels of noise the carpenters, the brick-layers and the drillers could scare up between them.” 

Martin Abraham, 

Real Story of Al 

Jolson (1950) p. 13