Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees discography

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Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees discography
Rudy Vallée conducts his band, The Connecticut Yankees, in 1935
Albums7

This article is a discography for American singer Rudy Vallée.

Studio albums[edit]

Year Album Peak
chart
position
1955 Drinking Songs
1956 Lets Do It
1958 The Kid From Maine
1962 Stein Songs
1964 The Funny Side of Rudy Vallee
1967 Hi-Ho Everybody
1974 An Evening With Rudy Vallée
Heigh Ho. Everybody!

Singles[edit]

Date Single Label Notes
1927-09-16 "Bye-Bye, Pretty Baby"
Edison
Joe Herlihy Orchestra, including Rudy Vallée
1928-08-30 "Right Out of Heaven" /
"Lady Whippoorwill (Cross My Heart)"
Credited as Rudy Vallée & Yale Collegians
1928-10-10 "Bye and Bye, Sweetheart" /
"Doin' the Raccoon"
Credited as Frank Mater & Yale Collegians
1928-12-12 "Come West, Little Girl, Come West" /
"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"
Harmony
Credited as Frank Mater
1929-01-10 "Makin' Whoopee" /
"If I Had You"
Harmony
1929-01-17 "Marie" /
"Caressing You"
Harmony
1929-01-17 "When the World Is At Rest" /
"In a Great Big Way"
Harmony
Annette Hanshaw, billed as Gay Ellis, accompanied by The Connecticut Yankees
1929-01-31 "Outside" /
"Weary River"
Harmony
1929-01-31 "The Land of Going to Be"
Harmony
Backed with "You'll Recognize My Baby" by The Singing Boys & Their Novelty Orchestra
1929-01-31 "You'll Do It Someday (So Why Not Now?)"
Harmony
Back of "Little Darlin'" by Jim Andrews. There also exists an unissued recording of this song from 1926.
1929-02-01 "(I Love You) Sweetheart of All My Dreams" /
"The Song I Love"
Harmony
1929-02-06 "Weary River" /
"Deep Night"
1929-02-07 "Sweet Suzanne" /
"Honey"
Victor
1929-02-07 "Coquette" /
"That's How I Feel About You"
Victor
1929-02-25 "Bye and Bye, Sweetheart" /
"My Time Is Your Time"
Victor
1929-03-15 "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" /
"I'm Still Caring"
Victor
1929-04-05 "Me Querés? (Do You Love Me?)" /
"On the Alamo"
Victor
1929-04-05 "Every Moon's a Honeymoon" /
"Huggable Kissable You"
Victor
1929-04-18 "Underneath the Russian Moon" /
"The One That I Love Loves Me"
Victor
1929-04-29 "S'posin'" /
"The One in the World"
Victor
1929-06-03 "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" /
"Miss You"
Victor
1929-06-25 "Baby, Oh Where Can You Be?" /
"You're Just Another Memory"
Victor
1929-07-08 "Where Are You, Dream Girl?" /
"Pretending"
Victor
1929-07-15 "That's When I Learned to Love You" /
"A Kiss to Remember"
Victor
1929-08-07 "Believe It or Not! (It's Always You)" /
"I Love the Moon"
Victor
1929-08-13 "Gypsy Dream Rose" /
"M-A-R-Y I Love Y-O-U"
Victor
1929-08-15 "You Want Lovin' (But I Want Love)" /
"Lonely Troubadour"
Victor
1929-08-20 "Perhaps" /
"Album of My Dreams"
Victor
1929-11-06 "A Little Kiss Each Morning (A Little Kiss Each Night)" /
"Then I'll Be Reminded of You"
Victor
Both featured in The Vagabond Lover
1929-11-11 "I Love You, Believe Me, I Love You (The Dream of My Heart)" /
"If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)"
Victor
Both featured in The Vagabond Lover
1930-01-13 "Love Made a Gypsy Out of Me" /
"Beside an Open Fireplace"
Victor
1930-02-10 "Stein Song" /
"St. Louis Blues"
Victor
1930-02-19 "I Still Remember" /
"I Never Dreamt (You'd Fall In Love With Me)"
Victor
1930-04-16 "Reminiscing" /
"The Verdict Is Life with You"
Victor
1930-04-30 "Kitty from Kansas City" /
"If I Had a Girl Like You"
Victor
1930-04-30 "The Song Without a Name" /
"My Heart Belongs to the Girl Who Belongs to Somebody Else"
Victor
1930-06-03 "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" /
"Old New England Moon"
Victor
Their rendition of "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" was originally recorded in 1928.
1930-06-25 "Betty Co-Ed" /
"Violets" / "Friends"
Victor
Containing a medley of "Violets" and "Friends
1930-07-14 "Confessin' (That I Love You)" /
"My Bluebird Was Caught in the Rain"
Victor
1930-07-16 "Good Evenin'" /
"Just a Little Closer"
Victor
1930-09-29 "Triple Cheer" /
"Good Night, Poor Harvard"
Victor
1930-10-27 "Sweetheart of My Student Days" /
"Stolen Moments"
Victor
1930-10-27 "She Loves Me Just the Same" /
"Washington and Lee Swing"
Victor
1930-11-10 "You're Driving Me Crazy" /
"Thinking of You, Dear"
Victor
1930-12-23 "Song of the Navy" /
"To the Legion"
Victor
1931-01-13 "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" /
"Ninety-Nine Out of a Hundred (Want To Be Loved)"
Victor
1931-04-08 "Whistling in the Dark" /
"My Cigarette Lady"
Victor
1931-04-15 "Two Little Blue Little Eyes" /
"You're Just a Lover"
Victor
1931-06-15 "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba" /
"I'm Keeping Company"
Victor
1931-06-23 "Makin' Faces at the Moon" /
"Hikin' Down the Highway"
Victor
1931-06-23 "Many Happy Returns of the Day" /
"Pardon Me, Pretty Baby"
Victor
1931-07-25 "Begging For Love" /
"As Time Goes By"
Victor
1931-07-25 "Why Dance?"
Victor
1931-08-07 "This Is the Missus" /
"Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"
Victor
1931-08-08 "My Song" /
"The Thrill Is Gone"
Victor
1931-12-07 "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver" /
"My Temptation"
Victor
1931-12-07 "Wind in the Willows" /
"(When You Fall in Love) Fall in Love With Me"
Victor
1931-12-07 "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver" /
"My Temptation"
Victor
1931-12-24 "A Faded Summer Love"
1931-12-24 "You Try Somebody Else"
Hit of the Week
1932-01-21 "Home"
Hit of the Week
1932-02-04 "By the Sycamore Tree"
Hit of the Week
1932-03-03 "Was That the Human Thing To Do?"
Hit of the Week
1932-03-17 "The Wooden Soldier and the China Doll"
Hit of the Week
1932-04-14 "By the Fireside"
Hit of the Week
1932-07-15 "Lovable"
Hit of the Week
1932-08-11 "Maori" /
"I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan"
1932-08-11 "Strange Interlude" /
"Same Old Moon"
Columbia
1932-09-09 "Say It Isn't So" /
"Three's a Crowd"
Columbia
1932-09-09 "Me Minus You" /
"Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)"
Columbia
1932-10-27 "How Deep Is the Ocean?" /
"Please"
Columbia
1932-10-27 "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" /
"I'll Never Have to Dream Again"
Columbia
1932-12-12 "'Till Tomorrow" /
"Here It Is Monday and I've Still Got a Dollar"
Columbia
1932-12-12 "Just an Echo in the Valley" /
"The Language of Love"
Columbia
1933-01-03 "I'm Playing with Fire" /
"A Bed-Time Story"
Columbia
1933-01-03 "Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight" /
"A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Thou"
Columbia
1933-01-25 "Hey! Young Fella'" /
"The Girl in the Little Green Hat"
Columbia
1933-01-25 "Pretending You Care" /
"The Whisper Waltz"
Columbia
1933-02-24 "Meet Me In the Gloaming" /
"Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much"
Columbia
1933-02-24 "Here Is My Heart" /
"Old Man Harlem"
Columbia
1933-04-17 "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" /
"I Can't Remember"
Columbia
1933-04-17 "Shadow Waltz" /
"I've Got to Sing a Torch Song"
Columbia
1933-06-20 "My Moonlight Madonna" /
"On the Air"
1933-06-20 "Thank Heaven For You" /
"When the Sweet Magnolias Bloom Again"
Bluebird
1933-06-20 "Free" /
"Three Wishes"
Bluebird
1933-07-07 "Lazy Bones" /
"Heart of Stone"
Bluebird
1933-07-07 "Stringin' Along On a Shoe String" /
"Don't Blame Me"
Bluebird
1933-07-07 "Moonlight Down Lovers' Lane" /
"To Be or Not To Be in Love"
Bluebird
1933-09-06 "Honeymoon Hotel" /
"By a Waterfall"
Bluebird
"Honeymoon Hotel" is sung by Alice Faye.
1933-09-06 "The Last Round-Up" /
"Shanghai Lil"
Bluebird
1933-09-06 "Shame On You" /
"Love Is the Sweetest Thing"
Bluebird
"Shame On You" is sung by Alice Faye.
1933-09-06 "Savage Serenade" /
"Nagasaki"
Bluebird
1933-09-06 "Happy Boy, Happy Girl" /
"Empty Days"
Bluebird
"Happy Boy, Happy Girl" is sung by Alice Faye.
1933-11-08 "Everything I Have Is Yours" /
"My Dancing Lady"
Victor
1933-11-08 "Orchids In the Moonlight" /
"Flying Down to Rio"
Victor
1933-11-24 "I Raised My Hat" /
"Puddin' Head Jones"
Victor
1933-11-24 "Suddenly" /
"What Is There to Say?"
Victor
1934-02-02 "Goin' To Heaven On a Mule" /
"Don't Say Goodnight"
Victor
1934-02-02 "Dancing in the Moonlight" /
"Carolina"
Victor
1934-03-05 "Without That Certain Thing" /
"You Oughta Be in Pictures"
Victor
1934-03-05 "Oh, You Nasty Man" /
"Hold My Hand"
Victor
1934-05-21 "Sleepy Head" /
"Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven"
Victor
1934-05-21 "Spellbound" /
"So Help Me"
Victor
1934-08-06 "I'm Hummin', I'm Whistlin'" /
"Panama"
Victor
1934-08-06 "Just an Old Banjo" /
"Somewhere in Your Heart"
Victor
1934-09-07 "The Drunkard Song" /
"Lost in a Fog"
Victor
1934-09-07 "The Drunkard Song" /
"The Tattooed Lady"
Victor
Laughing take of "The Drunkard Song." "The Tattooed Lady" is not to be confused with the later recording, "Lydia the Tattooed Lady."
1934-09-07 "Ha Cha Cha" /
"Out in the Cold Again"
Victor
1934-09-07 "Strange" /
"P.S. I Love You"
Victor
1934-09-07 "An Earful of Music" /
"When My Ship Comes In"
Victor
1934-12-07 "Sweet Music" /
"Ev'ry Day"
Victor
Both featured in Sweet Music
1934-12-24 "Fare Thee Well, Annabelle" /
"There's a Different You (in Your Heart)"
Victor
Both featured in Sweet Music
1934-12-24 "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" /
"On the Good Ship Lollipop"
Victor
1935-03-25 "Life Is a Song" /
"You Opened My Eyes"
Victor
1935-03-25 "Love Dropped in For Tea" /
"Seeing Is Believing"
Victor
1935-07-09 "His Majesty, the Baby" /
"I Couldn't Believe My Eyes"
Victor
1935-07-09 "The Gentleman Obviously Doesn't Believe (In Love)" /
"The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away"
Victor
1935-07-17 "Plain Old Me" /
"Page Miss Glory"
Victor
1936-01-06 "Hypnotized"
Victor
Backed with "Moonburn" by Eddie Duchin & His Orchestra
1936-01-06 "Say the Word and It's Yours" /
"Everything's in Rhythm with My Heart"
Victor
1936-01-06 "I Can Wiggle My Ears" /
"He Wooed Her"
Victor
1936-02-24 "Knick Knacks on the Mantle" /
"There's Always a Happy Ending"
Victor
1936-02-24 "There Isn't Any Limit to My Love" /
"I Don't Want to Make History"
Victor
1936-02-24 "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"
Victor
Backed with "The Moment I Saw You" by Ray Noble & His Orchestra
1936-04-16 "Would You?" /
"Us On a Bus"
1936-04-16 "She Shall Have Music" /
"The Glory of Love"
Melotone
1936-04-16 "The Call of the Prairie" /
"I'm On a Wild Goose Chase"
Melotone
1936-05-27 "Dream Time" /
"These Foolish Things"
Melotone
1936-05-27 "Empty Saddles" /
"Rhythm On the Range"
Melotone
1936-07-30 "A Fine Romance" /
"The Waltz in Swing Time"
Melotone
1936-07-30 "Bojangles of Harlem" /
"The Way You Look Tonight"
Melotone
Both songs are from Swing Time
1936-10-16 "Who Loves You?" /
"I Was Saying to the Moon"
Melotone
1936-10-16 "Speaking of the Weather" /
"All Is Fair in Love and War"
Melotone
1937-04-02 "Coronation Waltz" /
"Seventh Heaven"
Melotone
1937-04-02 "Turn Off the Moon" /
"That's Southern Hospitality"
Melotone
1937-07-02 "Heaven Help This Heart of Mine" /
"Harbor Lights"
Bluebird
1937-07-02 "Don't Play With Fire" /
"Vieni, Vieni"
Bluebird
1937-07-02 "Old Sow Song" /
"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm"
Bluebird
1937-08-11 "If You Were Someone Else" /
"An Old Flame Never Dies"
Bluebird
1937-08-11 "The Whiffenpoof Song" /
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
Bluebird
1937-08-11 "Kitty From Kansas City" /
"Deep Night"
Bluebird
Re-recordings
1937-10-11 "When the Organ Played 'O Promise Me'" /
"In the Mission By the Sea"
Bluebird
1937-10-11 "Have You Met Miss Jones?" /
"I'd Rather Be Right"
Bluebird
1937-10-11 "Rudy Vallee Surprises"
Bluebird
Novelty record
1937-12-08 "I'll Take Romance" /
"Little White Lighthouse"
Bluebird
1937-12-08 "The One I Love" /
"Melody Farm"
Bluebird
Vocals by Al Bowlly
1938-04-13 "The Latin Quarter" /
"A Stranger in Paree"
Victor
1938-04-13 "Day Dreaming" /
"I Wanna Go Back to Bali"
Victor
1938-04-13 "Oh! Ma-Ma! (The Butcher Boy)" /
"Lonesome, That's All"
Bluebird
1938-06-10 "My Best Wishes" /
"Naturally"
Bluebird
1938-06-10 "Twinkle In Your Eye" /
"Dream Dust"
Bluebird
1938-06-10 "Phil The Fluter's Ball" /
"Hawaiian War Chant (Pahuwahu)"
Bluebird
1938-12-18 "Oh, Diogenes!" /
"Sing for Your Supper"
Decca
With Harry Sosnik & His Orchestra
1938-12-18 "This Can't Be Love" /
"The Shortest Day of the Year"
Decca
With Frances Langford
1939-06-12 "I Poured My Heart Into a Song" /
"When Winter Comes"
1939-06-12 "I'm Sorry For Myself" /
"An Old-Fashioned Tune Is Always New"
Decca
1939-07-27 "I Want My Mama" /
"It's Way Past My Dreaming Time"
Decca
1939-07-27 "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" /
"Out of This World"
Decca
1939-12-19 "Moonbeams"
Decca
Accompanied by Victor Young's orchestra. Single is backed with "To the Land of My Own Romance" by the Victor Young Orchestra.

References[edit]

The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project