If I Had You (1929) Rudy Vallee

[GGiblet]

I love Rudy, Al, Bing, Russ and Fred <3

you can love them ALL!!!

[bulletproofheart49]

cliff edwards! dont forget cliff edwards

[IndyB25]

I am a distance relative of Rudy!

[GGiblet]

@IndyB25

tell us more!

[PhysicsProf1]

@IndyB25 that would be "distant."

[ThePaperFalcon]

i love this music

[pildskadden]

Could somebody tell me the name of the orchestra/band? Thanks!

[hannanathan564]

Amazing

[Micelli1947]

GO RUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheRiqzster]

Nice record. But I still can't figure out what the girls saw in that goofy creep.

[GGiblet]

@TheRiqzster

have you ever seen his films? he was funny!

with that voice and good humour and the sax playing, how could her lose?

[Atticus70]

My favorite version is the one with Al Bowlly with the Fred Elizalde's Anglo-American Orch. w. Rollini.

[LordWham]

@Atticus70 I just listened to it. I think I'll have to reconsider my favorite version...!

[Atticus70]

@LordWham :-) If you have listened to the version on youtube you should know that it's recorded too fast. You'll find the song with the correct speed on iTunes.

[semicolon1122]

Why don't we make music like this any more?! WHY!? Its so good!

[SimpsonizersGoHard]

lovely.

[paulkate72]

Quintessential 20s//30s music - Rudy's voice seems to have epitomised male singers of the period. Pretty good too. For mine though, a couple of years later Al Bowlly came on the scene - in my view, never surpassed

[partyspecialists]

this is a super cool channel thank you

[beboploo]

a good head of hair i should say

[beboploo]

a good mop of hair

[jaroncreed]

@beboploo mop? lmao!

[gerkins1]

Just reliving history.

[murraymae]

love it. great chords. sexy.

[rogharm]

great voice and great arrangement as good as bin'g;s record. ROGHARM

[zandyman96]

I love this song

[zandyman96]

@Josh3455 You are so very wrong. You have no idea what good music is.

[WATKINSBOB]

ONE OF HIS BEST...BOB WATKINS

[bobbobato]

What's wring with his voice? He sounds like a Rudy vallee impersonator.

[FredrikTers]

Very nice - and the trombone solo shows that Vallée's band certainly could provide a dose of jazz every now and then.

[DameEdithDivine]

DameEdithDivine is breathless.

[fredjmp]

Beautiful song !! Fantastic!!! Thanks for sharing!

[bawangariver]

Still my idol classic ... and fortunate to have met and dined with Rudy back in NJ in the '70s. Imagine two high school kids listening to Rudy while our peers listened to the Dead!

[1Tinfoil]

Classic lyrics,certainly beats the modern content in songs! I have heard this by a very young Dick Robertson on Edison.His version is slower and more deliberate.

[Josh3455]

Modern music is so much better.

[mscht24]

...vallee's good here...and others elsewhere...but no one imho matches the poignant singing of cliff "ukulele ike " edwards on this great tune :)

[Corrie121]

Fabulous!! 5*

Thanks for sharing.

[dianamaryflorence]

Rudy Vallee was very popular when I was in my twenties and thirties. I bought lots of his records in the 20's and 30's.

[eldorado303]

neat.

[goatface1000]

@dianamaryflorence If you were in your twenties in the 1920 you would be at least 105. How old are you really?

[CanKuman8]

@dianamaryflorence wow, how old are you?

[saxondog2001]

While I like the Al Bowlly Version too, this one is very very good! I'm a big Rudy fan! Thank you Lord Wham!

[poindexterqueef]

Great, Great Song! It just takes you to a place in time beautifully!

[racingrubberbiker]

I prefer the Al Bowlly version.

[dholm5058]

i am so grateful to at age 62,to have found rudy,truly right there with DerBingle,step fo step

[soundslikefrank]

Awesome and rare clip! Great singing and playing by the Mack Daddy of all us crooners, Rudy Vallee.

[hourlynewscaster]

It's interesting that the near-falsetto sensuality of Vallee's voice, combined with his "bedroom eyes" made him the "Elvis" of his generation. In his later years he played a "cartoon" of himself. It's interesting that in an interview, he spoke of his first movie, based on his song hit "Vagabond Lover" as being so bad they are "... still fumagating the theaters where it played." I would have love to have met him. Great song. Great rendition. Rudy, we miss you. Dennis

[SirCyrano]

Don't forget the Jimmy Durante version! I'm serious. He recorded this wonderful, sadly neglected song when he was around 70, and it's still my favorite rendering: tender, immensely touching, honest and full of heart.

[LordWham]

I've always been a fan of Durante. I just listened to his version of the tune over on Rhapsody. Very nice & tender indeed...!

[saxondog2001]

Beautiful!

Where has this song been all my life!?

[DGatsby]

This is great, don't get me wrong, but to me the Bing Crosby singing with Sam Lanin & Orchestra is one of the tops. Although this certainly is crackerjack.

[whizbang47]

To my ear you have 5 first-rate versions, at least. The Nat King Cole record is among those 5

and not among the maybes. This one is the fave.

[genia106]

What a voice! Thank you for this

Romantic Rudy and this great song.

[merrihew]

It is, indeed, a great version of a great song.

[NJDolphin23]

This was nice, but the Nat King Cole Trio's rendition takes the cake for me!

[kitty1927]

That's HOT!

[idasynco]

I am torn between this version and the Commanders version..it's a great tune! I do really like the piano solo, of course, since I too play piano. I actually think this version has more snap! :) FAVS!!AND SUB!

[LStrachey]

great song sung v. well.

[edgrosso]

Thanks for posting this wonderful version.

[HarborGuy]

He was complemented by President FDR on this one during the "crash" he said the song picked up the spirits of the Nation. (someone told me that),,,But the year is wrong so......

[kspm01]

Thank you for this wonderful, affectionate version! He really makes us feel devastation about missing the beloved person.