If I Had You (1929) Rudy Vallee

[@Jeffari1]

I could show the world how to smile I could be glad all of the while I could change the grey skies to blues If I had you I could leave the old days behind Leave all my pals, I'd never mind I could start my life all a new If I had you I could climb the snow capped mountains Sail the mighty ocean wide I could cross the burning desert If I had you by my side I could be a king, dear, uncrowned Humble or poor, rich or renowned There is nothing I couldn't do If I had you

[@briteness]

Tiny Tim used to talk a lot about Rudy Vallee. Indeed, hearing the man himself now it seems that Tim was almost channeling Vallee through the filter of his own eccentricities.

[@GGiblet]

I love Rudy, Al, Bing, Russ and Fred

[@serferten]

Rudy is from my Grandmother's gen. but still find his style, precision and delivery to be timeless. So simple, so beautful.

[@warrengwonka2479]

serferten I saw him on Broadway in HOW TO SUCCEED.

[@urbsinhorto]

So good. Like transcends time good.

[@timefortea1931]

I love his vintage voice!

[@m0L3ify]

I was so desperately looking for this kind of music when I was a teenager. Could never find it. Thank you!

[@Salvnyc_]

You got any music suggestions just curious?

[@m0L3ify]

@@Salvnyc_ For 20's music? My 20's playlist is all Rudy Vallee and a bunch of deleted videos, sadly. I should have made a list of what they were. Rudy is all that's left.

[@machoprotegido5607]

@@m0L3ify Damn same thing happened to me.

[@Mary-Vintage]

@@m0L3ifyI’ve made a 1900’s-1920’s playlist that may help you re-find some songs 🙂

[@AtlantaBill]

I was lucky enough to have a stepfather who owned a record store in the 1950s. Back then, you could still find some of the swing music. My real father's mother had a collection of sheet music and a piano, but I can't remember her ever using a record-player.

[@oldengguy]

I have a really beat Velvet-Tone disc of this that I found at an estate sale in 1986, just shortly before Mr. Vallee passed away. It was nice to hear a clean copy. Thanks!

[@Tradgoth1960]

Wonderful song

[@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!

[@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

[@mysteryjesus]

I watched that movie last week. I enjoyed it!

[@BernardProfitendieu]

there is a melancholy to this version ... he knows he's never going to have her (or him)

[@jeandipillo8814]

I just adore Rudy Vallee and his mellow voice!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@MissBooful]

I don't know how I've gone so long in this life without knowing this song existed! LOVE it!

[@willnichlas6317]

My dear MissBooful, listen to another vintage song titled "Sweepin' The Clouds Away".

[@electricearth1101]

Stanley Kubrick listened to this during the making of The Shining. you can see it in the Making Of documentary for the film. Its the part when stanley puts a vinyl onto a record player.

[@chevy266nova]

I could leave the old days behind Leave all my pals, I'd never mind I could start my life all a new If I had you

[@JoeSmith-vs5sy]

Great

[@RealmsofPixelation]

People these days couldn't even come close to this level of class.

[@timefortea1931]

You got that right! Yet it was just for the music- I read he had a temper and used bad language a lot!

[@richarddegrandcourt3430]

MY first real hollywood friend and star was rudy VALLE I SIGNED HIM TO BE MY FIRST CLEINT, AT THE RICHARD DEGRANDCOURT TALENT AGENCY, HE LOVED DINNER AT MUSSO FRANK, STEW .... THEN APPLE PIE AND STEAKS AT HIS HOLLWOOD MANSION, WITH A REAL SHOW! I WOULD LIKE TO PRODUCE HIS MUSICAL LIFE!

[@saxondog2001]

Beautiful! Where has this song been all my life!?

[@gavinmillar7519]

Absolutely wonderful

[@Supremesfan1]

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.

[@eugeniabeidler3]

Oldtime music is forever good. I love it.

[@Caocao8888]

Beautiful voice and style. Great personality, and good-looking (when he was young.)

[@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...!

[@finmoc6545]

Pretty lovely. Those of us who listened to Rich Conaty’s program on WFUV on Sunday nights will feel very happy listening to Mr. Vallee. Not just a pretty voice but good production values as well, don’t you think?

[@8008boot]

Absolutely lovely. Nothing better than a good melody. And this tops it! So diverse, all in one song.

[@angelicaaguirre8405]

Rudy Vallee is my No 1

[@edwardgunyo3638]

Rudy is the bees nes, great singer, wish he was here.

[@fredjmp]

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

[@kkallebb]

Nice song, very nice performance!

[@soundslikefrank]

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

[@merrihew]

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

[@dholm5058]

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

[@FredrikTers]

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

[@CoxJoxSox]

Great work Rudy!

[@jfry58]

Gosh, I just love this guy!

[@joeadams1225]

THANK YOU !!!

[@leelarson107]

This man was/is greatly underrated.

[@SoraSonorei2022]

No, he wasn't! He drove girls crazy before Sinatra

[@Micelli1947]

GO RUDY!!!!

[@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!

[@denisehennington9807]

When Rudy first heard Bing he said " My days are numbered." That Irish mordent displaced his status. Oh, well. Enjoy it while you got it. From: Tucson Ukulele Lady ❤️

[@zandyman96]

I love this song

[@Corrie121]

Fabulous!! 5* Thanks for sharing.

[@mainaccount131]

Excellent

[@mrjimmienoone2130]

I should hate this song. When my wife hears it, she always looks at me, disapprovingly: "Why can't you be so romantic!?" I must find an instrumental version.

[@richarddegrandcourt3430]

FIND ANOTHER GIRL THAT LIKES IT IT REALL IS ROMANTIC!

[@jonassanctus199]

Richard Degrandcourt agreed!

[@JohnPiperBoots]

@@richarddegrandcourt3430 Agree! :)

[@Shays_Shellac_Shelf]

The Harry James version (which is instrumental) is a good version, if you’re interested

[@GregoryErkins]

Just reliving history.

[@billwhite9703]

Class.

[@hothmandon]

F Is For Family season 4 episode 1 brought me here. Like if it brought you here as well.

[@lenalundberg3701]

Great Rudy.

[@LStrachey]

great song sung v. well.

[@larryhagemann5548]

This is a great rendition of IF I HAD YOU. Frank Luther sings a version that has an earlier sound to it. Both great artists. Thank you.

[@hannanathan564]

Amazing

[@Atticus70]

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

[@Tradgoth1960]

All of the whileeee

[@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.

[@judithdavies6200]

Dreamy~

[@franklinkakies5150]

Oh phooey! Rudy Vallee isn't doing anyone but Rudy Vallee. He and Al Bowlly are both their own men, and didn't have imitate anybody. As to the immortal Judy Garland, who even knew she recorded this song? Ignorant rather than chauvinistic probably is more to the point. Cliff Edwards' version is my personal favorite (and I absolutely LOVE both R.V and A.B.) Ukelele Ike delivers the song with such a light, gallant touch, almost tossing it off, that it has a particular poignance. "There is nothing I couldn't do, if I had you." That's the inspiration of love alright.

[@paulmicelli5815]

I am over 70 and I cannot believe a comercial in front of Rudy Vallee in 2017, christ allways a buck.

[@LordWham]

Paul Micelli, It's not my commercial. I've never tried to profit from anything I have posted. There is always someone trying to claim they own the rights for a few pennies.

[@BernardProfitendieu]

calm thyself, gramps!

[@bobbywimsy6741]

@@BernardProfitendieu Shout that out to the two candidates as they duke it out this Fall; one is sleepy, the other hyper.

[@BixBix81]

Thank You for this number. Did You knew all, that Miff Mole play fantastic 8+ 1 bar on trombone. Recording is on Harmony 825-H. Bixbix81

[@Micelli1947]

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

[@bobjema5325]

Rudy go Rudy you were a good gaser

[@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?

[@DameEdithDivine]

DameEdithDivine is breathless.

[@edward2908]

F is for family?

[@utoobmann9083]

I'm high af right now and this comment got me laughin

[@paulmicelli5815]

Wish I had one of the autographed photos.

[@tamazpatarkalashvili2811]

Very original manner of singing, but I like it.

[@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......

[@John94pl]

And that was Music my friends

[@Josh3455]

Modern music is so much better.

[@AtlantaBill]

Franklin Roosevelt publicly asked Rudy Vallee whether he could write a song that would make the Americans forget the Depression. I think this was the song.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

And who could write a song to forget the current one?

[@bobbywimsy6741]

If ever there were two songs that fit FDR they were Happy Days are Here Again ( See the two movies Sunrise at Campobello (1960), and Warm Springs (2005), and the other song, Thou Swell, Thou Witty, Thou Grand. Boy do we need an FDR now, one who is not simply "of the People, by the People, and for the People" but one who is WITH the people in our sufferings. Whom may that be? I think it just might be Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois. Check her out via Google. I love Georgia, and take care.

[@TheNaughtysheriff]

@@bobbywimsy6741 I’m afraid the talent well has run dry.

[@LordWham]

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

[@donaldkgarman296]

THIS INTERNET THING ALLOWS ME TO HEAR MUSIC I HAVE NOT HEARD IN LONG AGES....WITHOUT THE BOTHER OF BAMBOO NEEDLES AND OTHER SUCH FRIPPERIES .

[@NioDigitaleTerrestre]

Bird lives!!!!

[@SoraSonorei2022]

Mine too!

[@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

[@gustavonesrala2154]

adoráveis anos 20

[@tom8181]

23 skidoo kiddo that's the cats pajamas

[@aarongranda7825]

tom8181 ha!

[@karriewhitman4326]

The cat's meow or the bee's knees.😃

[@beboploo]

a good head of hair i should say

[@fennelleastman8816]

Originally a hit for the one and only Denny Abell.This version sounds very similar.

[@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!

[@JohnPiperBoots]

***@Frycook48 - Yes indeed ........ now to find modern young ladies that love this type music! :) Are they out there? Benny Goodman did a fantastic job with this song too! :)***

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Where are the ladies who love jazz age and big band swing music; not just the music but the sensibility and manners that go with it, to appreciate it with someone,and dance and romance to it in 2020? I am as anxious to find her as an astronomer on egg shells for that first squeak of life beyond Earth.

[@Bigband78]

Was just wondering if this was the Velvetone or the Victor version.

[@IndyB25]

I am a distance relative of Rudy!

[@bobforapples8665]

Landsnakes! So am I! He is related to my mom! Truthfully I mean that!

[@celiavalle5556]

🥰🌞🌈🎉💜🎶🎺🎊

[@JamesZ32100]

Can you recommend any other singers from the twenties to me? I'm a fan of old classical music.

[@joycegrindle1891]

wonder if Mr. Capone liked this one...

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

Joyce Grindle I may be wrong but I think he was in jail by 29

[@roverworld7218]

He wasn't until 1932 when they got him for unpaid federal taxes. Heard he was more of an opera fan.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

@@roverworld7218 Unpaid federal tax you say? See Trump, Jan., 2021.

[@murraymae]

love it. great chords. sexy.

[@eldorado303]

neat.

[@GGiblet]

@IndyB25 tell us more!

[@quirky.dorky.lurking]

@dianamaryflorence wow, how old are you?

[@Philhip29]

Hello Thomas ! I' m looking for any record with Rudy Vallée on alto sax. Are there any in existence ? I have a hunch you might know...

[@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.

[@ComradeGabroo]

Nobody even mentioned Judy Garlands version. how chauvinistic this vintage music crowd can be. All your favorite folios..... HA!

[@robertmasina4610]

It sounds like Rudy Vallee was the prototype 1920's singer.

[@jaroncreed]

@beboploo mop? lmao!

[@raycavaioli6259]

true dirge

[@NJDolphin23]

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

[@twing21able]

He could be from westbrook maine

[@bobbobato]

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