"Ivanovici Rules The Waves"

Hmmm.  Maybe Al Jolson was aware of copyright law but in 1946 composer
Josef Ivanovici had been dead for only 41 years.

'Jolie' was a little off-hand in these matters.  He sang "Avalon" in
defiance of Puccini's "E lucevan le stelle" from "Tosca," and he was
not ashamed to plagiarise from the little man -- British Music Hall
star Billy Merson went bust trying to get from Jolson his credit for
"The Spaniard That Blighted My Life."

A great artist Jolson: shame about the ethics.

Michael Woolf
New Zealand