Rudy (né Hubert Prior) Vallée (1901-1986) was a popular American singer, actor, bandleader and entertainer. Having played drums in his high school band, Vallée played clarinet and saxophone in various bands around New England in his youth. rom 1924 through 1925, he played with the Savoy Havana Band at the Savoy Hotel in London, where his fellow band-members discouraged his attempts to become a vocalist.[ He then returned to the States to obtain a degree in Philosophy from Yale and to form his own band, Rudy Vallée and the Connecticut Yankees. Vallée was given a recording contract and in 1928, he started performing on the radio. Vallée became the most prominent and, arguably, the first of a new style of popular singer, the crooner. Vallée acted in a number of Hollywood films starting with The Vagabond Lover in 1929. This excellent record was made in 1933.
