# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2882
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57627 "2018-03-06T10:49:46Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57628 "2018-03-06T13:15:37Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back 8. Honky Château ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57629 "2018-03-06T13:53:21Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back 8. Honky Château 9. Caribou ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57630 "2018-03-06T13:58:41Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back 8. Honky Château 9. Caribou 10. Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57631 "2018-03-06T13:59:29Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back 8. Honky Château 9. Caribou 10. Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player 11. Blue Moves ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57632 "2018-03-06T14:33:59Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back 8. Honky Château 9. Caribou 10. Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player 11. Blue Moves 12. 17/11/70 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57633 "2018-03-06T14:41:35Z")
Elton John albums 1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2. Empty Sky 3. Tumbleweed Connection 4. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 5. Madman Across the Water 6. Too Low for Zero 7. Reg Strikes Back 8. Honky Château 9. Caribou 10. Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player 11. Blue Moves 12. 17/11/70 13. Elton John’s Christmas Party New! Notable Jazz singers 14. Billy Holiday ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57634 "2018-03-06T14:44:27Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57635 "2018-03-06T14:51:25Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson > **[The Jazz Singer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer)** > > The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences). Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system and features six songs performed by Al Jolson. Based on... ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57636 "2018-03-06T14:59:46Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57637 "2018-03-06T18:26:41Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57638 "2018-03-06T18:39:20Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57639 "2018-03-06T18:42:44Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57640 "2018-03-06T20:03:20Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater 8. Betty Carter ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57641 "2018-03-06T20:06:52Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater 8. Betty Carter 9. Diane Schuur ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57642 "2018-03-06T21:05:21Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billy Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater 8. Betty Carter 9. Diane Schuur 10. Nat King Cole ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57643 "2018-03-06T21:40:20Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billie Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater 8. Betty Carter 9. Diane Schuur 10. Nat King Cole 11. Mel Tormé BTW it’s Billie not Billy Holiday ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57644 "2018-03-07T03:09:03Z")
Notable Jazz singers 1. Billie Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater 8. Betty Carter 9. Diane Schuur 10. Nat King Cole 11. Mel Tormé 12. Neil Diamond > **[The Jazz Singer (1980 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer_(1980_film))** > > The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Jerry Leider. The film stars Neil Diamond (in his acting debut), Sir Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz, and tells the story of a young singer who is torn between tradition and pursuing his dreams as a pop singer. Based on the 1925 play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, this film is the fourth adaptation of the play, after the 1927 and the 1952 theatrical adaptions, and a 1959 television adaptat... ---
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Notable Jazz singers 1. Billie Holiday 2. Louis Armstrong 3. Al Jolson 4. Ella Fitzgerald 5. Nina Simone 6. Bessie Smith 7. Deedee Bridgewater 8. Betty Carter 9. Diane Schuur 10. Nat King Cole 11. Mel Tormé 12. Neil Diamond 13. Chet Baker Next: Countries that need to change their name. 1. Democratic Republic of Congo ---
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