rudy valle: the 1st pop music idol

According to Rudy Vallee, he was the first teen idol pop star. I don’t know if he was the first but he was one of the first and screaming young female fans were a permanent presence at his early concerts. In this profile I did of Vallee for the Today Show he also claimed to have been with more women than any man alive. Modesty does not interrupt the narrative of his life as told by Vallee himself.

[@planejet42]

Although I am confused. At the end, the one newscaster says Rudy was paid $4000 a week, and the other newscaster says “ouch”? Even by today’s standards $4000 a week is very very good, but in if adjusted for inflation in 1929, $4k a week would be around $67,600 today.

[@TadeodeWiesen]

¡¡¡Ídolo!!!
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[@planejet42]

He was great

[@j.a.w.eekhoff4317]

His name was VALLEE.

[@jimdrake-writer]

In two of his three autobiographical books, Vallee said that Gene Austin was the first crooner, but that Austin disliked the ballads he was given to record by the Victor company and was a jazz and blues singer at heart. Although Vallee recorded several blues songs, including “St. Louis Blues,” he sang them in the same style as his ballad recordings.

[@torgman]

I'd like to see those "Airplane 2" commercials.