Rudy Vallee - I’ve Got To Sing A Torch Song 1933 (Gold Diggers of 1933) @warholsoup100

Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

(Columbia 2773-D)
Recorded 4/17/1933 New York, New York.
Connecticut Yankees (Musical group)
Rudy Vallée (leader)
Rudy Vallée (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Harry Warren (composer)
Al Dubin (lyricist)
Song From Gold diggers of 1933 [Motion picture] (Work title)

Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American pre-Code musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It starred Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell. It featured appearances by Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.
Gold Diggers of 1933 was one of the top-grossing films of 1933.
"I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" was to have been sung by Ginger Rogers, but instead appears in the film sung by Dick Powell near the beginning.

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