[Dixielandjazz] Rudy Vallée - was Barnacle Bill

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

None of the Vallee collections I have include anything resembling
"Barnacle Bill".

"Drunkard song" is indeed a hoot--RV starts singing it, breaks out
laughing for some reason, some musicians, especially the trumpet, get into
the act musically, finally there's a total breakdown. Very contagious...

The ASV collection also has Teddy Powell doing "Serenade to a maid (a
bronx serenade)". Dinner music for people who aren't very hungry...[%^)

--Sheik

> Hello all
>
> Nobody seems to have responded to Colin Toomer's enquiry about a Rudy
> Vallée send up of "Barnacle Bill". I'm far from being a Rudy Vallée
> authority but I can offer a suggestion.
>
> The CD that Colin is thinking-of could be an ASV compilation called
> "Beat the band to the bar" - an interesting collection of send-ups and
> in-jokes among band musicians. It includes the Carmichael/Venuti
> "Barnacle Bill". It also includes the very funny break-down version of
> Vallée's 1934 "Drunkard song (There is a tavern in the town)".
>
> Colin, could you have concatenated these two performances?
>
> The CD also includes the strange "Ol' man Mose" by Eddy Duchin & His
> Orchestra. More of that later  :-)
>
> All the best,
> Anton
>
>
>
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