http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/08/12/yesterday-s-hits-the-jazz-singer-1927-alan-crosland.aspxWhat made The Jazz Singer a hit?: The talking, of course. For more than three decades, moviegoers could travel to the other side of the world or even back in time, but they couldn’t hear the people onscreen actually talking. But in the late 1920s, variousenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/08/12/yesterday-s-hits-the-jazz-singer-1927-alan-crosland.aspx#117809Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:17:26 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:117809Steve C.<p>If you really want to have your mind blown, go rent WONDER BAR and wait for the &quot;Goin' to Heaven on a Mule&quot; number. Somehow both staggeringly offensive and incredibly subversive in the same breath.</p> <img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=117809" width="1" height="1">