and countless numbers of Americans were beginning to spend as many hours as possible each day by their new radios.


It was the birth time of broadcast sound, bursting out over the airways and then out from the movie screens.  And HE was right there at the center of it all - becoming the first sensational popular idol of the radio. 

Mounted police were needed to control the lines of fans who waited to "see" him in personal appearances, and newspaper interviewers came in from around the country just to get a glimpse of him.  His fans just could not get enough!!

This dance band leader, musician, and vocalist would go on to become a Broadway star, opening for the first time in 1931 and for the final time in 1961.  He would host and perform on the top-rated, first-ever, radio variety show - "The Fleischmann Yeast Hour" - from 1929 to 1939, for which he would discover and present more new important talent than anyone before him or since.  From radio to recording, to Broadway, to Hollywood and the movies, to comedy and the world of nightclubs, he was a genius as a performer, and a giant in the entertainment industry for over 60 years.  

This handsome man exhuded romance, was professionally very confident, and yet extremely complex and personally shy... and his world-famous name was

Rudy Vallée