Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Essential Classics, Vol. 622: Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees (2024)
Artist: Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees
Title: Essential Classics, Vol. 622: Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 1:06:09
Total Size: 229 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Essential Classics, Vol. 622: Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 1:06:09
Total Size: 229 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Same Old Moon (3:07)
2. Dancing in the Moonlight (2:52)
3. P.S. - I Love You (3:26)
4. Old Man Harlem (3:16)
5. Shadow Waltz (3:14)
6. I'm Just a Vagabond Lover (3:18)
7. Let's Put out the Lights (3:43)
8. Brother Can You Spare a Dime (3:40)
9. The You and Me that Used to be (3:13)
10. Say it Isn't so (3:40)
1. As Time Goes By (3:33)
2. I Can't Remember (3:17)
3. Beside an Open Fireplace (3:03)
4. Me Minus You (3:04)
5. You're Driving Me Crazy (1931) (3:30)
6. Thank Heaven for You (3:07)
7. When My Ship Comes in (3:02)
8. The Thrill is Gone (3:26)
9. My Dancing Lady (3:01)
10. Flying Down to Rio (3:28)
American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer (born July 28, 1901 in Island Pond, Vermont, USA - died July 3, 1986, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA).
Vallée grew up in Westbrook, Maine, where he studied the piano and later played drums in his high-school band.
Between 1921 and 1922, he attended the University of Maine, then transferred to Yale University, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1927. During college, he played clarinet and saxophone. He admired saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft so much that he assumed the first name "Rudy" himself.
After graduation, he formed his own band, "The Yale Collegians," who soon turned into Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees. In early 1928, still as "Yale Collegians," they landed an engagement at the newly opened "Heigh-Ho Club" on 53rd Street in New York City, thanks to band leader Bert Lown. When the club owner insisted that Vallee replace his singer, he sang himself, using a megaphone to project his rather thin and nasal tenor voice without a mike. Both the megaphone and the greeting "Heigh-ho, everybody!" became Vallée's trademarks even though microphones soon relieved him of the need to use a megaphone.
The Connecticut Yankees became so popular that radio station WABC broadcasted them from the club. This started Vallée's long and successful career as a nationally known "crooner" and the host of a series of radio shows during the 1930s and 1940s, starting with The Fleischman Yeast Hour in 1929. He also performed on Broadway, in "George White's Scandals of 1931," and in several movies, starting with "The Vagabond Lover" in 1929 and including Preston Sturges' screwball comedy "The Palm Beach Story" (1942). As late as 1961, Vallée played the role of J.B. Biggley in the Broadway hit musical, "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying."
Vallée grew up in Westbrook, Maine, where he studied the piano and later played drums in his high-school band.
Between 1921 and 1922, he attended the University of Maine, then transferred to Yale University, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1927. During college, he played clarinet and saxophone. He admired saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft so much that he assumed the first name "Rudy" himself.
After graduation, he formed his own band, "The Yale Collegians," who soon turned into Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees. In early 1928, still as "Yale Collegians," they landed an engagement at the newly opened "Heigh-Ho Club" on 53rd Street in New York City, thanks to band leader Bert Lown. When the club owner insisted that Vallee replace his singer, he sang himself, using a megaphone to project his rather thin and nasal tenor voice without a mike. Both the megaphone and the greeting "Heigh-ho, everybody!" became Vallée's trademarks even though microphones soon relieved him of the need to use a megaphone.
The Connecticut Yankees became so popular that radio station WABC broadcasted them from the club. This started Vallée's long and successful career as a nationally known "crooner" and the host of a series of radio shows during the 1930s and 1940s, starting with The Fleischman Yeast Hour in 1929. He also performed on Broadway, in "George White's Scandals of 1931," and in several movies, starting with "The Vagabond Lover" in 1929 and including Preston Sturges' screwball comedy "The Palm Beach Story" (1942). As late as 1961, Vallée played the role of J.B. Biggley in the Broadway hit musical, "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying."
