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Good Rudy Vallee cds are hard to find....this ones a good'un. I recommend this one. I have spent so much money on Rudy Vallee music. The trouble is that you never know if what you gettting is the old stuff, which I adore, or the lets say the 'newer' stuff that is nowhere near as good. This cd is the wonderful old scratchy music that I can't get enough of. Another good'un is the cd titled The Voice That Had Them Fainting. If you ever see this cd snatch it up because it is worth its weight in gold!!!! Happy listening!!!!

These are all original recordings from Vallee's early years with the Connecticut Yankees. You can't go wrong with the selections here. There is some "hiss" but I love that 78 sound! Lean back and relax with the truly mellow fellow with megaphone.

This CD offers some of the best and earliest selections by Rudy Vallee, both with his Yale Collegians, and also with the Connecticut Yankees. Many of these cuts I heard here for the first time.

I am wild for Rudy Vallee and this CD is a real find for anyone, like myself, who loves his early work. For anyone who knows Vallee from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", which is fabulous (but is 30+ years after these recordings) this is a wonderful collection to hear.

If you want to appreciate this man's talent and wonderfully long career, listen to this (which is probably as close to the beginning as one will find), and then go on to his later music.

The man is a legend, and this CD is a great place to begin your journey into the wealth of his music!!

I own several recordings of Rudy Vallee's music. This collection best represents his early years. It may sound tinny and faded to today's listener but I believe that adds to the charm. Rudy Vallee was at the height of his popularity when he recorded thse songs and it is how I want to remember him.

And I agree with him as he says "The man and his megaphone make mega-fun."

This CD isn't for everybody, but if you imagine a day when everybody didn't sound pre-packaged, and sound alike, yo u can enjoy this CD. Vallee had a distinctive voice, so did Crosby and the other greats of the day. At least one review here trashes him as a human being, which is irrelevant. you buy or don't buy the CD for the singer, or the songs, not because of what he may or may not have been like as a person. If one song were added, this would have 5 stars, and that's "With her Head Tucked Underneath her Arm," a song that still gets a spin around halloween. but there's a lot to like here--Kitty from Kansas City, to name one, is a laugh riot. enjoy.

Rudy Vallee's voice shouldn't work, but it does. It's ripe for lampooning and yet there is a charm about it that overcomes the opportunities to lampoon. The music paints excellent pictures of early thirties America; in fact, the version of "Deep Night", heard on this cd, is the music used in the background during the opening credits of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde".

Vallee is WIMPY. What's up with that "too-much-starch-in-my-shorts" voice? How the heck did he EVER get popular!?!? Skip the recordings of this boring and not quite talented crooner and listen to RUSS COLUMBO or BING CROSBY, some REAL crooners.

Rudy Vallee became something of a symbol of the late twenties crooner. This is a mystery to me because he was a terrible singer - he had a hypernasal style and a limited range. His voice was thin, whiny, rarely expressive. If you get hold of his version of Cole Porter's playful, "Let's do it," you will even detect his contempt for the material he chose. He sings it as if it was a detestable novelty song rather than a witty one ("The most refined ladybugs do it, when a gentleman calls/ bugs in your rugs do it, what's the use of mothballs?") with a great musical change from the verse to the chorus. Rudy may be forever remembered by most of the public with his raccoon coat and his megaphone singing as a vagabond lover but the stories that insiders told depict a nasty, cheap, greedy, tyrant - one of the most unpleasant individuals in show biz according to those who knew him. Unfortunately, Vallee recordings are often the only newly released early versions of many songs that help defint the twenties and early thirties.
When Vallee first heard Bing Crosby sing, he declared, "I am done for." I wish it had only been true.