[78-L] Drunkard Song - Rudy Vallee

[David Lennick]

He's sending up The Tattooed Lady as well. By the way, the Canadian issue of 
the breakup didn't have the "Dear Rudy" label, just a regular batwing label. 
And no composer credit, no "Tavern in the Town" subtitle, so you had to know 
you which version was which. Both were issued in Canada.

I meant to put a question mark next to the reference to the Paramount Theatre. 
Not certain where he was playing, but they were all pretty loopy, maybe into 
the ohbejoyful, the song was first person feminine, and it just struck him as 
ludicrous.

dl

On 6/19/2014 10:56 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>
> 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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>> Rodger
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>> For best results use Victor Needles
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