Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees discography

This article is a discography for American singer Rudy Vallée.

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

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