[78-L] Drunkard Song - Rudy Vallee

[Rodger Holtin]

I'll take that as definitive, thank you.
Yes, Fog is the Flip of the "straight" version on 24721 - perhaps the only
"rarer" record I own.  Interesting that the break up is -1 and the
"straight" one is -2 and it isn't really so straight.  He giggles in the
same place and really burlesques the song in several places - sounds more
drunk on this that the break up take.

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He wrote in My Time is Your Time that he was doing 4 or 5 shows a day (at
the Paramount), the band was just exhausted, the song was silly and the
trumpet player "made a face" and he just lost it. He did another take where
he's suppressing a laugh, and that was issued first, but the breakup version
wouldn't be held back. Different flip on each disc (I forget which has Lost
in a Fog, but I suspect it's on the non-breakup and thus rarer).

dl

On 6/19/2014 8:23 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
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> OK, does anybody KNOW the real story about why/how Rudy broke into 
> such a fit of infectious laughter on this famous record?  He was such 
> a story teller, surely he had to have told that story to somebody!
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