Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Toronto, through its publicity bureau, has recently made arrangements with Rudy Vallee whereby the 'Varsity college hymn promises to become as great a nuisance as a certain other song which was once dear to the hearts of the graduates and undergraduates of a now well-known American college...
...lure of publicity and has entered into negotiations with Mr. Vallee, designed to make the University of Toronto known from coast... There is a limit and it comes, we think, when college after college succumbs to the crooning voice of the New Yorker and goes after cheap radio and song sheet publicity, inimical to the interests of culture and education which a university, we have always erroneously thought, is supposed to embrace and cultivate. --McGill Daily...
...York City, October 5--Rudolph "Rudy" Vallee, Yale '26 and Maine varsity letter man, denied today having had any correspondence with Harvard officials relative to the recording and popularizing of "Harvardiana" and "Our Director", two Harvard songs to which the famous New York crooner had supposedly been denied the rights, and declared that in making phonograph records of the songs he believed that he "was giving Harvard a good plug just as he had done for Maine with the 'Stein Song...
...Vallee also went on record as saying that he had seriously considered changing the words of "Harvardiana" and make it a "good drinking song" and that in this respect it "had possibilities", but that he had changed his mind and decided against it in order to spare the feelings of the Harvard Alumni. He stated that, he had unqualified permission from the composer, Raymond Williams, to do this if he wanted...
Rumors to the effect that Vallee had been denied the orchestration to the songs emanated from the offices of the Harvard band last week. The officers of the band, it is understood, refused to send the score of the Harvard tunes, to Vallee so that they might be transcribed into the traditional Vallee manner. It was also intimated that the famous director sought the Harvard songs before he acquired the "Maine Stein Song", but, balked then, his success with the latter had led him to make records of the Crimson tunes now anyway...