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Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.
He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. In the words of a magazine writer in 1929, "At the microphone he is truly a romantic figure. Faultlessly attired in evening dress, he pours softly into the radio's delicate ear a stream of mellifluous melody. He appears to be coaxing, pleading and at the same time adoring the invisible one to whom his song is attuned."
Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine née Lynch. Both of his parents were born and raised in Vermont; however his grandparents were immigrants. The Vallées were francophone Canadians from neighboring Quebec, while the Lynches were from Ireland. Vallée grew up in Westbrook, Maine.
In 1917, he decided to enlist for World War I, but was discharged when the Navy authorities found out that he was only 15. He enlisted in Portland, Maine on March 29, 1917, under the false birthdate of July 28, 1899. He was discharged at the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island, on May 17, 1917 with 41 days of active service.
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"Time Goes By" is a song by the Japanese J-pop group Every Little Thing, released as their eighth single on February 11, 1998. It was used as the theme song for the drama Amai Kekkon. Hideaki Tokunaga covered the song on his 2007 album Vocalist 3. Juju also covered the song on her 2010 album Request.
From the motion picture "Glorifying The American Girl"
Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 - July 3, 1986) was a popular American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée. Both of his parents were born and raised in Vermont, but their parents were immigrants; the Vallées being of French Canadian origin, while the Lynches were from Ireland. Rudy grew up in Westbrook, Maine. Having played drums in his high school band, Vallee played clarinet and saxophone in various bands around New England in his youth. In 1917, he decided to enlist for World War I, but was discharged when the Navy authorities found out that he was only 15. He enlisted in Portland, Maine on March 29, 1917, under the false birthdate of July 28, 1899. He was discharged at the ...
Record: Harmony 0808 ... Recorded December 12, 1928
Rudy Vallee was one of the first broadcast entertainers to discover the value of a signature tune ("our radio greeting")--he commissioned Heigh-Ho Everybody from composer Harry Woods. The song was named for New York's Heigh-Ho Club, where Rudy & the Yankees attained their first great success (and radio contract). HEIGH-HO, EVERYBODY! When songbirds are singing, here's all they keep singing, "Heigh-Ho, everybody, heigh-ho!" The breeze says each morning, when daylight is dawning, "Heigh-Ho, everybody, heigh-ho!" Every star up in the sky, looking down here below, has a twinkle in his eye and says, "heigh-ho, heigh-ho!" So I'll just begin it, there's happiness in it, "Heigh-Ho, everybody, heigh-ho!" More from Answers.Com: "One of the most popular entertain...
Four legendary seniors--George Raft, Molly Picon, Rudy Vallee and George Jessel, sat down for this rare 1980 TV interview with great songs and stories.
As Time Goes By (Hupfeld) by Rudy Vallee with Orchestra (CD audio source) When the throngs of “Casablanca” fans eagerly visited the music stores in 1943 to purchase a copy of “As Time Goes By,” their choices were limited to only dated-sounding versions recorded twelve years earlier when the tune had first been introduced. Because of the ongoing strike against the record companies by the musicians union (aka The Recording Ban), no new recordings featuring union musicians were being made in early 1943. So Victor reissued this 1931 Vallee version, which now reached #2 on Billboard, and Brunswick reissued the Jacques Renard (#3 peak). TIP: Click this link to browse through all 88 videos of the 1943 HITS ARCHIVE collection, alphabetically arranged in the convenient YouTube Playlist format: ...
Irving Berlin’s memorable tribute to female loveliness dates back to “The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1919” and was, appropriately, brought back as a musical highlight of the Oscar winning 1936 film “The Great Ziegfeld.” More Vallee? Here’s a great YouTube playlist collection of his 1930s hits, plus some lesser-known tracks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTFzQlK7fWk_xolZgouD7qcWVchtOmwFP Transferred and digitally processed from 78rpm: Victor 25278, originally issued on Victor 24838 - A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (Berlin) by Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees, vocal by Rudy Vallee, recorded in NYC December 24, 1934 Check out the daily music posts on my Facebook group: 1950s HITS--EVERY DAY! https://www.facebook.com/groups/824194430969202/ MusicProf78 Facebook page: https://www.fac...
This is one of the Great Tangos Of The World. It was composed by Youmans for the movie "Flying Down To Rio" and is distinguished by its melodramatic, majestic tone and a perfect orchestration by Rudy Valle and His Connecticut Yankees. Rudy's dreamy voice in the refrain adds to this tango's sensual, beguiling charm. Recorded in 1933.
Rudy Vallee -- Winchester Cathedral --- Big Megaphone -- -60's Pop Rudy Vallee takes a crack at signing Winchester Cathedral, a song originally performed by The New Vaudeville Band, written by Geoff Stephens, to sound like something that Rudy Vallee would have done in the 1930's. I guess Rudy appreciated that, so he took a crack at singing the song.
From the motion picture "Glorifying The American Girl"
Rudy Vallee (and His Connecticut Yankees) circa 1929
From The Arrowhead Springs Hotel Opening In San Bernardino California. Circa Late 1930's - Early 1940's. Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 -- July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.
Rudy Vallee's spot-on mimicry of dialect comedian Willie Howard (who introduced this Ray Henderson/Buddy DeSylva/Lew Brown number in "George White's Scandals of 1931") is one of the more remarkable aspects of this cheery depression buster. I posted Jack Hylton's version a while back, but that performance skips the well-wrought introduction: LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about; Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way? Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out. We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious. You work, you save, you worry so, But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go....
Excerpted from a 60's Reel to Reel Mix tape
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Victor 22506-A Confessin' (That I Love You) written by Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds & Al Neiburg. This Song Peaked At #4 On US Music Charts For Rudy In 1930. Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 -- July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. "I'm Confessin' that I Love You" (also known as "Confessin'," "I'm Confessin'," and "Confessin' that I Love You") is a jazz and popular standard that has been recorded many times. The song was first produced with different lyrics as "Lookin' For Another Sweetie," credited to Chris Smith and Sterling Grant, and recorded by Thomas "Fats" Waller & His Babies on December 18, 1929. In 1930 it was reborn as "Confessin'," with new lyrics by Al Neiburg, and with the music this time credited to ...
Gershwin's "Concerto in F", the Third Movement. Agitato of course. Recorded live on the Rudy Vallee radio show in 1933 with Gershwin on the piano and remastered and cleaned by Tormented Artist Ink (me). You only wish the whole thing was performed. As heard on two other early performances he did I remastered and posted, his touch is so light and playful, which should inform other performances.
Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 - July 3, 1986) was a popular American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée. Both of his parents were born and raised in Vermont, but their parents were immigrants; the Vallées being of French Canadian origin, while the Lynches were from Ireland. Rudy grew up in Westbrook, Maine. Having played drums in his high school band, Vallee played clarinet and saxophone in various bands around New England in his youth. In 1917, he decided to enlist for World War I, but was discharged when the Navy authorities found out that he was only 15. He enlisted in Portland, Maine on March 29, 1917, under the false birthdate of July 28, 1899. He was discharged at the ...
Four legendary seniors--George Raft, Molly Picon, Rudy Vallee and George Jessel, sat down for this rare 1980 TV interview with great songs and stories.
Rudy Vallee, the American singer, bandleader, and actor, first of the great "crooners," and arguably the first mass media pop star, talks to Wallace about his career, his opinions about his fans, Hollywood, his friends, and his reputation for stinginess. "Whether you agree or disagree with what you will hear, we feel that none will deny the right of these views to be broadcast." Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Well prepared with extensive research, Wallace asked probing questions of guests framed in tight close-ups. The result was a series of compelling and revealing interviews with some of the most interesting and imp...
MYSTERY GUEST: Rudy Vallee PANEL: Arlene Francis, Darren McGavin, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
This is the first Crooner, nobody will dispute it.(I think he deserves it. There is a short Bio in this Video. I'll be placing a short video in ezch video. Enjoy. The next crooner will be Bing Crosby, (I personally don't care that much for him but he has a following) I will be posting a suprise very soon.
MYSTERY GUEST: Dick Powell [film actor turned producer] PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Rudy Vallee, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
MYSTERY GUEST: Peter Gabel; Sue Lyon PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Rudy Vallee, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf ---------------------------------------- New Facebook group for WML! https://www.facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/
Rudy Vallee Royal Gelatin Hour With Guests Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Peabody, & Ed Wynn. Original Air Date Was 12/03/1936. Even though he was no longer selling Fleischmann's Yeast, Rudy was still on for Standard Brands {Royal Gelatin} on NBC's Thursday night schedule at 8pm(et). Two weeks later, he introduced Edgar Bergen and "Charlie McCarthy" in their first national radio appearance [which led to their weekly stint on Standard's "CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR" in May 1937].
The comedic adventures of a women who meets four returned servicemen who all want to marry her.
Big band / dance band music from the 1920's and 1930's Song 1 - Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Baby's Blue - vocal by Johnny Marvin - recorded 8/18/1927 Song 2 - Abe Lyman's California Orchestra - Darling - recorded 6/15/1928 Song 3 - Vic Irwin & His Orchestra - I Don't Blame You - vocal by The Eaton Boys - recorded 11/27/1931 Song 4 - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - If I Had A Talking Picture Of You - vocal by Bing Crosby - recorded 10/16/1929 Song 5 - Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Why Dance - vocal by Rudy Vallee - recorded 7/25/1931 Song 6 - Seattle Harmony Kings - Breezin Along - recorded 8/2/1926 Song 7 - Columbia Photo Players (Selvin) - Live & Love Today - recorded 7/3/1930 Song 8 - Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - Why Have You Forgotten Waikiki - vocal by Edd...
Rudy Vallee, the American singer, bandleader, and actor, first of the great "crooners," and arguably the first mass media pop star, talks to Wallace about his career, his opinions about his fans, Hollywood, his friends, and his reputation for stinginess. "Whether you agree or disagree with what you will hear, we feel that none will deny the right of these views to be broadcast." Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Well prepared with extensive research, Wallace asked probing questions of guests framed in tight close-ups. The result was a series of compelling and revealing interviews with some of the most interesting and imp...
Four legendary seniors--George Raft, Molly Picon, Rudy Vallee and George Jessel, sat down for this rare 1980 TV interview with great songs and stories.
MYSTERY GUEST: Rudy Vallee PANEL: Arlene Francis, Darren McGavin, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
Rudy Vallee, singer, actor, and bandleader, interviewed by Rita Winters about National Humane Week and his pet dogs. To access this video in the Ball State University Digital Media Repository: http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/MunDelFilms/id/1726/rec/6 To access other items in the Muncie and Delaware County Films and Videos collection: http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/collection.php?CISOROOT=/MunDelFilms The Ball State University Digital Media Repository, a project of Ball State University Libraries, contains over 190,000 freely available digital resources, including digitized material from the Ball State University Archives and Special Collections. For more information: http://libx.bsu.edu/
This webisode from the webseries "Joe Franklin Remembers" is about Joe Franklin remembering Rudy Vallee. Rudy Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée. Both of his parents were born and raised in Vermont; however his grandparents were immigrants. The Vallées were francophone Canadians from neighboring Quebec, while the Lynches were from Ireland. Vallée grew up in Westbrook, Maine. In 1917, he decided to enlist for World War I, but was discharged when the Navy authorities found out that he was only 15. He enlisted in Portland, Maine on March 29, 1917...
MYSTERY GUEST: Peter Gabel; Sue Lyon PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Rudy Vallee, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf ---------------------------------------- New Facebook group for WML! https://www.facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/
An excerpt from the delightful DVD "Songs and Stories Of The Crooners," the last known professionally recorded interview of Herbert Khaury. Order the full length 37 minute DVD from http://vidsync.com/tinytim/ or call 1-800-559-0000 "Tiny Tim's Songs and Stories of the Crooners" is the last recorded interview and performance of 1960's icon and ukulele legend Tiny Tim. Accompanying himself on ukulele, Tiny Tim sings 24 songs and snippets interspersed with remembrances of his life and musical influences. This professionally produced, 37-minute entertaining and enlightening DVD shows that Tiny Tim was much more than a "one hit wonder." In addition to his trademark falsetto singing voice, Mr. Tim has a strong baritone and expertly mimics the great crooners Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo and Rud...
From the motion picture "Glorifying The American Girl"
I'm Confessin' that I love you,
Tell me, do you love me too?
I'm Confessin' that I need you,
Honest I do, need you every moment.
In your eyes I read such strange things,
But your lips deny they're true,
Will your answer really change things
Making me blue?
I'm afraid some day you'll leave me,
Saying "can't we still be friends"
If you go, you know you'll grieve me,
All in life on you depends.
Am I guessin' that you love me,
Dreaming dreams of you in vain,
I'm Confessin' that I love you, over again.