Continuing our little remembrance of the world’s first official crooner, above is a nice profile of Rudy Vallee done for the Today Show by Boyd Matson in the early 80s. Bryant Gumble was then the host and appears—pre-face lift–at the end of the segment. There’s nothing terribly fresh in this piece, but it gives a nice overview of Vallee’s unique career as well as allowing us a look at his private ‘museum’ which was lodged in a building on his estate off Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Now let’s turn to me. I met Vallee in the early 80s and visited that museum (and estate). It’s a strange tale and I’ve recounted it perhaps too often. But it’s a nice memory and for those of you who are newish to this blog I offer up an old post in which I tell the tale. Click here to read about my day on the Rue De Vallee.