But the fact is Everything today is thoroughly modern Check your personality Everything today makes yesterday slow Better face reality "It's not insanity" Says _Vanity Fair_ "In fact It's stylish to raise your skirts And bob your hair!" Have you seen the way They kiss in the movies? Isn't it delectable? Painting lips and pencil-lining your brow Now is quite respectable Men say "It's criminal what women'll do" What they're forgetting is This is 1922!
I'll never forget Rudy flying out east to New Jersey in the early 70's to visit with two teenagers who (unlike everyone else listening to rock and roll at that age) were restoring old vintage phones, Victrolas and Panatropes, and listening to the crooner and his peers! That chance meeting left me with a life long love of his music and the '20s era
Have you seen *MAX RAABE?* He is like this Rudy Valee video but with our higher quality recording equipment. Actually like being in the audience hearing it live during the 1920's
I saw the movie Vagabond Lover (1929) the film that made got Rudy Vallee into film. Big star already from Radio. He was appearing at another theater and made a short personal appearance. It opened in NYC to a sell- out crowd and seats were I think $5.00, an outrageous price at the time. All star cast Marie Dressler, Sally Blane.
I will never forget inviting Rudy out from California to dinner in norhtern NJ. I was in high school then ... back in the early 70's ... listening to his songs on my Victrola while the rest of my classmates listend to the Dead! He is timeless!
it's been so long, but one thing I remember he said: "If there are any ladies in the audience that would like to get pregnant, please meet me in the alley after the show!"
Oh,, wow, that is pretty risque, especially for that time period. Incidentally, what were the '50s like? We all have our own vision of that era (especially those of us who were born decades afterward), but it must've been an altogether different experience if you actually lived through it. :-D
I remember hot wiring a model T back in the day and driving to the big city to see Rudy sing through a megaphone at a speakeasy owned by Luck Luciano..
This performance is from the film "Glorifying the American Girl." It was introduced that way as was other "stage" performances in the film by Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor. On the other hand The RKO Rudy Vallee film "Vagabond Lover" did not in fact have an onscreen performance of the title song by Vallee, he just sung it under the opening titles.
I went to Yale at the same time as Rudy...I peed in his saxophone once as a fraternity prank....he was SO mad! Such wonderful days back in the Roarin' '20s.
@@rashione982: He seems to be taking his time replying to your question. Let’s see-he was at Yale when Rudy was, which means sometime between 1925 and 1931 … and here he is at age 113+ leaving a comment. Hmmm.
For those unfamiliar with Mr. Vallee at the top of his fame he was about as big as they get. Eddie Fisher did a version of this song as a salute to Mr. V that is just dynamite.
That's a pretty good band, especially the drummer using the brushes. I had only seen Rudy in movies, like "The Palm Beach Story." I did not realize he was an instrumentalist also.
1924 saw Rudy come to London to play saxophone at the Savoy Hotel.Being an American he did not lack self confidence and persuaded the band leader to allow him to sing one night.After a couple of numbers the audience and fellow players stopped him and he was instructed to stick to his day job of playing the saxophone.Undaunted he again at a Zonophone studio session for Bert Firman's band attempted to sing,and once again his nasal,affectational style of singing was howled down.Ho hum!.
I don't know why, but I have always felt connected to this error of music... Is reincarnation a real thing??? I have no idea but this music seems to resonate with me and feels so familiar
The drummer behind Rudy Vallee is easily recognizable from clip to clip. Lol, I'm curious now: who was he, what happened to him, does he have descendants?
steffenLarsen54: The drummer was Ray Toland. Ray was six and half foot tall with size 15 shoes. A big guy! Rudy said Ray was "a happy-go-lucky" personality.
I'm 13 and I only listen to 20s 30s 40s and 50s. If anything I listen to a little elton john or queen but that's the newest I listen too. Those were the best songs. I don't like songs like old town road or listen to singers like Eminem. Its too bad we don't have songs like these anymore
Watching these old clips of Rudy, I realized that the drum set didn't have a High Hat which was just being developed. Enter the High-Hat Goodbye Banjo.
His own band members encouraged Rudy not to sing. His quavering tenor annoyed them. But his sincerity and good looks endeared him to young ladies, and he was a hearthrob long before Sinatra or Elvis. He was in fact a good musician and very serious about the music his band played. Later, he had a prominent and singing role in several movies and played a key role in the Broadway musical and the 1967 movie, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Not bad for a guy who couldn't sing.
A crooner, not a belter. But he is singing without amplification here, and without his "signature" megaphone, indicating he could fill a house over the band, which surprises me.
He has a nice, lyric tenor voice which I sometimes find surprisingly moving. I have read that he was a Yale man, a reactionary old Republican, and that his first wife, Jane Greer, divorced him after she caught him in bed with another man.
I can believe that. I have a feeling that he was a closet Queen. 👑 he was married a number of times but never had any children. the marriages were just to throw people off. nothing wrong with that, the times were just different back then.
@davidglow3 History teaches us that all empires decline. This is of course the case with Britannia. Nobody gives a hoot what the Savoy crowd thought, or how they came to be so misguided.
They seem to have tried to "sweeten" the audience murmur at the beginning but all we hear is one guy saying "Rudy Vallee! Rudy Vallee!" over and over. Great song and great performance though I wish they'd miked him closer. Rudy is obviously about to perform a saxophone solo at the end. Instead they cut to the audience reaction. Why?
I agree! I'm no film or early sound on film expert, but I imagine it boils down to, "en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccustomed_As_We_Are" I'm guessing the sound guys were just new and figuring things out.
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Amazing that this video is almost 100 years old.
The voice of a generation. Of an era. Iconic.
Such a lovely song. 1920's music is so relaxing and calming. Helps me with my homework too.
It's officially the 20s again!!!
That was back when the words Rock and Roll didn't exist.
It reminds me of tuberculosis
You’d love Bioshock Infinite
Two violins, two saxaphones, a banjo, drums, a piano and a vocalist. That's awesome!
Why that's enough to make a Rock song.
"It's Rudy Vallee x 10" is my ring tone now.
What a good idea.
so weird listening to a song from the 20s...in the 20s
The modern world is getting old.
But the fact is
Everything today is thoroughly modern
Check your personality
Everything today makes yesterday slow
Better face reality
"It's not insanity"
Says _Vanity Fair_
"In fact
It's stylish to raise your skirts
And bob your hair!"
Have you seen the way
They kiss in the movies?
Isn't it delectable?
Painting lips and pencil-lining your brow
Now is quite respectable
Men say
"It's criminal what women'll do"
What they're forgetting is
This is 1922!
😂😂😂
Wow! I just saw him on "Death Valley Days " today. I didn't know who he was until I looked up the cast.
Depends how it is perceived...yes , an old song but the song remains the same, timeless.
I'll never forget Rudy flying out east to New Jersey in the early 70's to visit with two teenagers who (unlike everyone else listening to rock and roll at that age) were restoring old vintage phones, Victrolas and Panatropes, and listening to the crooner and his peers! That chance meeting left me with a life long love of his music and the '20s era
The 20s are back!
@@matthewprendergast7138 LET'S GOOOOOO!
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Have you seen *MAX RAABE?* He is like this Rudy Valee video but with our higher quality recording equipment. Actually like being in the audience hearing it live during the 1920's
🎷 ♡🎶 🎻 ♡ how cool you had those experiences!
I saw the movie Vagabond Lover (1929) the film that made got Rudy Vallee into film. Big star already from Radio. He was appearing at another theater and made a short personal appearance. It opened in NYC to a sell- out crowd and seats were I think $5.00, an outrageous price at the time. All star cast Marie Dressler, Sally Blane.
One more wonderful haunting song from the end of the roaring twenties
Met Rudy in the 60's, what a great guy. High Hoh...
I will never forget inviting Rudy out from California to dinner in norhtern NJ. I was in high school then ... back in the early 70's ... listening to his songs on my Victrola while the rest of my classmates listend to the Dead! He is timeless!
Oh, I just love him. I’m a sucker for 20’s music. Al Jolson, Ruth Etting. Oh, my.
We can make 20s music big again since we are back in the 20s.
I'm good with that. Music way before Rock and Roll.
If you have not heard of him - may I recommend Al Bowlly
@@anthonyfrew1571 Thank you. Will look him up.
😮really good voice
My grandma had this record and he was one of her favorite singers along Bing.
*along with
Bing chilling
Brilliant clip of Rudy Vallee. Great 1920s nostalgia.
No need for 20s nostalgia since the 20s are back!!!
Nostalgia? How old are you?
Love the drummer and his brushes.
Ricko s his Bass drum too!
I actually saw him in 1955 in California at a night club
how was he ?
excellent and he even told some racy jokes!
Really? Could you give an example of the jokes? :-P
it's been so long, but one thing I remember he said: "If there are any ladies in the audience that would like to get pregnant, please meet me in the alley after the show!"
Oh,, wow, that is pretty risque, especially for that time period. Incidentally, what were the '50s like? We all have our own vision of that era (especially those of us who were born decades afterward), but it must've been an altogether different experience if you actually lived through it. :-D
I used to be like a butterfly, go from flower to flower, those were the days! Divorced for 47 years and love it1
It's crazy how fast things change in just a 100 years.
The tenderness of his voice is enchanting!
I used to sing this song years ago; when I found out it made a girl cry, it bothered me...the power of the song.
oh! this is perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a haunting voice, romantic and sweet!
I’ve been so hooked on this song lately, and I’m not even mad lol. Plus, we are on our second round of the 20’s right now 😉
Great song, great singer.
thanks for sharing the org crooner of the 1920s 95yrs later!
I remember hot wiring a model T back in the day and driving to the big city to see Rudy sing through a megaphone at a speakeasy owned by Luck Luciano..
I MUST SAY... HE SINGS IN TUNE..
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE RUDY ❤❤❤.
Even when I was a kid back in the fifties I loved Rudy Vallee.
This performance is from the film "Glorifying the American Girl." It was introduced that way as was other "stage" performances in the film by Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor. On the other hand The RKO Rudy Vallee film "Vagabond Lover" did not in fact have an onscreen performance of the title song by Vallee, he just sung it under the opening titles.
Great post. Thank you for sharing it.
Is it just me or is Rudy really handsome?
It's just you....
Thank you big bill Murphy rudee truly is an artist
I remember being ten years old when my mother took me to see this.
I went to Yale at the same time as Rudy...I peed in his saxophone once as a fraternity prank....he was SO mad! Such wonderful days back in the Roarin' '20s.
Is that a true story? One for the biographers!
Oh really, what's ur age?
@@rashione982: He seems to be taking his time replying to your question. Let’s see-he was at Yale when Rudy was, which means sometime between 1925 and 1931 … and here he is at age 113+ leaving a comment. Hmmm.
Thanks for sharing this - Lou. Rudy can surely "belt it out"!!!
Go Rudy ! The Gangster of Love !
I love Rudy! He was the best!
This is wonderful!
I first heard about him in the early 80s when ED Marshal had a documentary about the roaring 20s. -- Since then, this song remained in my mind.
Welcome back to the roaring 20s!
Tiny Tim brought me here
For those unfamiliar with Mr. Vallee at the top of his fame he was about as big as they get. Eddie Fisher did a version of this song as a salute to Mr. V that is just dynamite.
The sweater men are great artists!
That's a pretty good band, especially the drummer using the brushes. I had only seen Rudy in movies, like "The Palm Beach Story." I did not realize he was an instrumentalist also.
When artists and music meant something!
I met Rudy when he was in his 80’s just before i became the secretary at RKO pictures in 1982.
I must say RKO are OK 👌
"Rudy Vallee, it's Rudy Vallee, Rudy Vallee, Rudy Vallee, Rudy Vallee, Rudy Vallee, Rudy Vallee, Rudy Vallee, Ru---" Quote - Most Annoying Person in History stating the Obvious
Ah, early talkies. LOL
Well back then he was a sex symbol....so Rudy Valley Rudy Valley 😀
wish we could get something like that but for Will Osborne.
iGGy eo oh, the irony in this statement!😂
Actually, Ellen Degeneres is the most annoying person. This is a close second.
Loved it,Thanks
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Not exactly an electrifying presence, but he was immensely popular.
If you are here in 2020, I love you ❤️
Hello, how are you feeling today and the entire family and friends doing today I really miss oldies song with mom and dad lol 😢
Go RUDY!!!!
1924 saw Rudy come to London to play saxophone at the Savoy Hotel.Being an American he did not lack self confidence and persuaded the band leader to allow him to sing one night.After a couple of numbers the audience and fellow players stopped him and he was instructed to stick to his day job of playing the saxophone.Undaunted he again at a Zonophone studio session for Bert Firman's band attempted to sing,and once again his nasal,affectational style of singing was howled down.Ho hum!.
They just don't write songs like this any more.
Damn that drum kit looks hot!
He did eventually find the girl of his vagabond dreams, and her name was Eleanor!
I don't know why, but I have always felt connected to this error of music... Is reincarnation a real thing??? I have no idea but this music seems to resonate with me and feels so familiar
I feel the same but the weird part is I’m 15 and I felt a connection for a while
Love it!
The drummer behind Rudy Vallee is easily recognizable from clip to clip. Lol, I'm curious now: who was he, what happened to him, does he have descendants?
steffenLarsen54: The drummer was Ray Toland. Ray was six and half foot tall with size 15 shoes. A big guy! Rudy said Ray was "a happy-go-lucky" personality.
I bump this in my GMC
0:36 odd looks like they are all starting to stand lol.
Wow! He was really young then.
Hello, how are you feeling today and the entire family and friends doing today I really miss oldies song with mom and dad lol 😢
Very good kspm01!, this answers my question very well indeed!.
I'm 13 and I only listen to 20s 30s 40s and 50s. If anything I listen to a little elton john or queen but that's the newest I listen too. Those were the best songs. I don't like songs like old town road or listen to singers like Eminem. Its too bad we don't have songs like these anymore
We are back in the 20s!
Watching these old clips of Rudy, I realized that the drum set didn't have a High Hat which was just being developed. Enter the High-Hat Goodbye Banjo.
It's so weird listening to a song from the (19)20s in the (20)20s.
The movie was great too..
Geniale😍
Hello, how are you feeling today and the entire family and friends doing today I really miss oldies song with mom and dad lol 😢
His own band members encouraged Rudy not to sing. His quavering tenor annoyed them. But his sincerity and good looks endeared him to young ladies, and he was a hearthrob long before Sinatra or Elvis. He was in fact a good musician and very serious about the music his band played. Later, he had a prominent and singing role in several movies and played a key role in the Broadway musical and the 1967 movie, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Not bad for a guy who couldn't sing.
Why is he not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
It's Rudy Vallee! It's Rudy Vallee!
So I was watching the TV show f is for Family on Netflix they mention this guys name in season 4 episode 1. I had the look it up and I'm ok with this.
well you know, Vallee was the Juston Biber of his day, now, THAT is what is really creepy!!!
The WW2 begins only ten years later, very sad.
Rudy Vallee, Clara Bow, Helen Morgan, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor....where are they now?......
Dead
Along with the Ritz Brothers, Olsen and Johnson, Milton Berle, Carmen Miranda
Mr Skeeja LOL
i’m actually in the crowd!
Westbrook Maine's most famous son.
Go get'em RUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turn up that Treble!!
A crooner, not a belter. But he is singing without amplification here, and without his "signature" megaphone, indicating he could fill a house over the band, which surprises me.
Whatever happened to Big Band & Vaudeville banjo ?
Bluegrass isn't Everything !
I FINALLY FOUND IT
He needed to move a little----they might throw dirt on him!!! Love the old time music!!!!
maybe to get the name across, who knows. how much would a 78' record of this be? i stumbled across it.
Isn't this from his first film "The Vagabond Lover"?
It's from the 1929 film, Glorifying the American Girl.
it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee it's Rudy Vallee
I wonder if anyone thinks that the phrase "Roaring '20s" refers to the 2020s.
From the Film of the same name I believe done earlier....
I don't recognize that guy playing the drums. Does anyone know who that is?
Sounds like a combo of 'a little kiss each morning" and "Betty coed".
This kinda slap ngl
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That dude in the beginning is creeping me out
And I watched this video to see if I was pronouncing the last name right and I sure learned quick
His autobiography is good - apparently this movie was a stiff and played mostly in prisons!
He has a nice, lyric tenor voice which I sometimes find surprisingly moving. I have read that he was a Yale man, a reactionary old Republican, and that his first wife, Jane Greer, divorced him after she caught him in bed with another man.
Here he is, Hillary's actual boyfriend! Right here on RUclips comment board! Podesta.
I can believe that. I have a feeling that he was a closet Queen. 👑 he was married a number of times but never had any children. the marriages were just to throw people off. nothing wrong with that, the times were just different back then.
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@davidglow3 History teaches us that all empires decline. This is of course the case with Britannia. Nobody gives a hoot what the Savoy crowd thought, or how they came to be so misguided.
They seem to have tried to "sweeten" the audience murmur at the beginning but all we hear is one guy saying "Rudy Vallee! Rudy Vallee!" over and over. Great song and great performance though I wish they'd miked him closer. Rudy is obviously about to perform a saxophone solo at the end. Instead they cut to the audience reaction. Why?
I agree! I'm no film or early sound on film expert, but I imagine it boils down to, "en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccustomed_As_We_Are"
I'm guessing the sound guys were just new and figuring things out.
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Cause HE was number one at the time. (it's suppose to mimic the thinking of the girls young minds) lol............