Rudy Vallee and great tap dancers - From 1935

Ann Dvorak and Rudy Vallee sing "Fare Thee Well, Annabelle" from a 1935 film.

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[perfectjazz78]

@DreamsCumTrue469 You are right. Jazz can never die. It lives on with modern bands playing in the 1920s and 1930s style. One local band here in DFW, The Singapore Slingers, keeps real jazz alive by performing the classics AND writing new, original tunes.

[perfectjazz78]

@DreamsCumTrue469 I didn't say he invanted the sax, nor sax solo per se. I will clarify my statment to say he invented the JAZZ sax solo or the improv sax solo.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@perfectjazz78 you fail to know what your are talking about as well. Everybody (except you apparently) know the saxaphone was invented by Adolphe Sax in 1846, not Rudy Weidoeft, Rudy Vallee, or anyone else named Rudy. Weidoeft wasn't born until 1893. The idea that he "invented" saxophone soloing 60 years after the instrument was invented is asinine. He may have help popularize it thru the aid of the inventions of disc recordings and radio, but he didn't invent anything. Hate to educate you.

[perfectjazz78]

@ecapital46 You fail to realize that Hurbert Prior Vallee aka Rudy Vallee was the artistic and musical heir of Rudy Weidoeft, who invented and popularized the saxophone solo. Hate to burst your bubble, but without Rudy Weidoeft, there would be no Rudy Vallee and therefore no Charlie Parker !

[ecapital46]

@VictrolaJazz lol, you live in a fantasy world. There ought to be a law against idiots yapping on here about music they know little about. But unfortunately without this law, you are free to write whatever nonsense you choose, regardless of how stupid it makes you look. Hope you gave thanks this past Thanksgiving to me and the other soldiers around the world who hourly secure your right to make a fool of yourself.

[AmericanYesteryear]

In regard to evaluating modern Jazz against that from the Jazz Age, I proudly join PJ and VJ on the other side of the century. No finer music was ever performed and recorded, especially between 1925-1935 ... and, to narrow it down even further: between 1929-1932. Says Who? Says You, Says I :-)

How appropriate! Rudy's "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" is playing on Radio Dismuke as I type this!! Haha, so there!

[VictrolaJazz]

@ecapital46 You're missing the most important point. The point is that Rudy Vallee, by virtue of his birth in 1900 or 1901, was heir to the most exciting and tuneful decade of the 20th century, variously known as the Jazz Age, the Roaring 20's, the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. He was a lucky adult in the era of the Charleston, short skirts, flappers and real jazz. The assessment of modern collegians is meaningless. Their inheritance is STDs, drug dependency and a poor jobs market.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@perfectjazz78 Jazz , like truth, can NEVER die. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, the defense rests.

[perfectjazz78]

@DreamsCumTrue469 Well, If I'm an idiot, than at least I am a happy satisfied idiot and don't have to listen to the meaningless cacophonic racket that is modern American jazz. For me, Jazz died in 1949.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@perfectjazz78 congratulations...guess that makes you as equally idiotic as Vallee with respect to being competent at evaluating modern american jazz, lol