We move into the 1930s with our college songs as we meet someone who definitely would have caught Collegiate Sam's eye - collegiate sweetheart Betty Co-Ed!
Yale man Rudy Vallée co-wrote the song "Betty Co-Ed" and recorded it for Victor with his Connecticut Yankees:
The song was so popular that it inspired a 1931 "Screen Song" cartoon from the Fleischer Studio with Mr. Vallée himself singing the song:
Those Fleischer cartoons are a blast! I love how Betty joins in on her own song!
Betty Co-Ed had a bit of a proto-Betty Boop vibe and she was perhaps one of the influences in the evolution of Betty Boop then happening at the studio.
Back to records, Phil Spitalny cut a fun version for the low-budget Hit of the Week label that pressed records on Durium:
Very fun, with Scrappy Lambert leading the vocal charge!
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| I kinda like British Betty! |
Things get interesting with this British recording on the eight-inch budget Eclipse label by the Biltmore Players (Jay Wilbur's band):
It has generic lyrics as obviously the names of American colleges wouldn't translate, as it were!
But, sign me up for whatever school Betty attends!
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