A heavily worn and well loved disc of one of the bigger songs of 1933. Vallee shifts accents for short periods of time in the song.
Ah Yes, Rudy Vallee, the original and first crooner, right? Wrong. Don't trust google or 80s postmortem news reports. He is nowhere near the first crooner. But he had a great nasally crooning tenor voice, sax, and radio greeting. 'Heigh Ho Everybody.' Which he used off and on throughout his career. And back when he was still big in the music industry, he was the curly haired, Yale collegiate, Vagabond Lover that so many women swooned for. Having been a radio star, movie star, and star artist on both Columbia and Victor at various points too, having a great rivalry in the late 20s into the mid 30s with a similar crooner Will Osborne as well. Apart from his famous Connecticut Yankees, he had the Rudy Vallee Trio, The Gentlemen Songsters, and an lesser known solo career.
The Connecticut Yankees started out in 1927, soon after Rudy graduated from Yale (wish l could find out what his Major was..) He taught himself to read sheet music, play saxophone, and how to lead. Going down to Manhattan, and after some odd jobs, found his way over to a small nightclub known as \"The Heigh-Ho Club.\" Quickly forming a small 10-Piece band originally named The Yale Collegians. In late September, they would score a chance to record for Edison, which lasted only a few sides. Later in Early 1928, radio would come to the Heigh Ho Club. They started broadcasting Rudy and the Yale Collegians over WABC, and within months, the Collegians were offered to record for Columbia dimestore labels like Harmony, Diva, and Velvet-Tone, some sides also being released on Supertone. As his popularity grew both on radio and record, Victor would buy him out in 1929. As they came to him, there name would change to Rudy Vallee & The Connecticut Yankees. By 1930 they were well established in the industry and quite popular. In 1931, they would go over to Durium's Hit Of The Week label for a brief time on the side. In 1932, Columbia would take them on their main label, recording for Victor less, but more on their lesser and newer Bluebird label. In 1935, they would stop recording for Victor all together recording only for Bluebird with them, leaving for the ARC. Their records being released on Perfect, Melotone, Oriole, Conqueror, etc until 1938 when the ARC would collapse, leaving him with only Bluebird, and eventually getting back onto regular Victor where they would stay until breaking up in 1942. Because of The Petrillo Ban, a song of theirs from 1931 was re-released in 1943 becoming a big hit, post break up.
Rudy Vallee had all of his hits with The Connecticut Yankees, which they had a ton of. I'll only list some of them here. Lost In A Fog in 1934, I'm Just A Vagabond Lover in 1929, Whisper Waltz in 1933, On The Good Ship Lollipop in 1935, Kitty From Kansas City from 1930, Deep Night from 1929, S'Posin from 1929, Oh Ma Ma in 1938. As Time Goes By in 1931 & 1943, Brother Can You Spare A Dime in 1932, The Stein Song in 1930, Just An Echo In The Valley in 1933, Betty Co-Ed in 1930, and many others.