Al Stone - Al Jolson

Grace Farrell - Betty Bronson

Molly Winton - Josephine Dunn

Sonny Boy - Davey Lee

John Perry - Reed Howes

It All Depends On You

I'm Sittin' On Top of the World

The Spaniard That Blighted My Life

There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder

Golden Gate

Sonny Boy

Keep Smiling At Trouble

Like The Jazz Singer (1927) The Singing Fool (1928) was a part talkie. DeSylva, Brown and Henderson's Sonny Boy which they were initially ashamed of (they had poured every ounce of schmaltz they could possibly squeeze into one song) was a replacement for a song called Little Fella. It became a huge hit, the first million seller of the talkie era.

On the night of the premiere at the Winter Garden large silver tickets with a silhouette of Jolson sold for a top price of $11. The movie was a huge box office hit - only in 1939 did Gone with the Wind overtake it. 

Obvious and tedious as the climax is, when the black-faced comedian stands before the camera and sings Sonny Boy you know that  the man is greater somehow than the situation,the story or the movie. (Pare Lorentz)