The Timelords

After the Timelords, the duo became The KLF. Hyacinth's Cemetery, Westbrook, Maine. The Manual was re-released in 2002 with a new introduction. Rudy Vallee died on July 3, 1986 and was interred in St. The Timelords released one other product, a 1989 book called The Manual or How to Have a Number One the Easy Way, a tongue-in-cheek guide to scamming the music industry written by Drummond, a former music industry manager and A&R man. He toured with a one-man theater show into the 1980s. A more prosaic explanation for the name comes from the Time Lords, an alien race from the planet Gallifrey in Doctor Who. He appeared in the 1960s Batman television show as the character "Lord Marmaduke Fogg".

A photograph of the vehicle appeared on the sleeve of the Doctorin the Tardis single (the car was also credited for the song itself) and was prominently featured in a number of the group's music videos. (In his later years he told a collector of his early records that "Everything I did before 1950 you can shit on.") He performed on Broadway in the show "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and appeared in the film of the same name. Cauty and Drummond claimed the car then spoke to them, giving its name as Ford Timelord and advising the duo to adopt the name for themselves. In middle age Vallee's voice matured into a robust baritone. According to group members Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, the Timelords came about after their purchase of an American Ford Galaxie police car (which had allegedly been used in the film Superman IV filmed in the UK). One of his best acting roles is in the 1942 screwball comedy film "The Palm Beach Story". The song is a mix of Gary Glitter's Rock and Roll, The Sweet's Blockbuster and the Doctor Who theme with sparse vocals inspired by Doctor Who and Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney character.Doctorin' the Tardis reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 12 June, and also charted highly in Australia and New Zealand. Vallee acted in a number of Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Timelords was the name used by UK sampling outfit The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu for their 1988 novelty pop single Doctorin the Tardis, a No.1 hit in the UK. That same year Vallee also wrote the introduction for Armstrong's book "Swing That Music". When Vallee took his contractual vacations from his national radio show in 1936, he insisted his sponsor hire Louis Armstrong as his substitute (this was the first instance of an African-American fronting a national radio program). Also in 1929 Vallee started hosting The Fleishchman’s Yeast Musical Variety Hour; he would continue hosting popular radio variety shows through the 1940s. His first films were made to cash in on his singing popularity, but Hollywood was pleasantly surprised to find that Vallee could act as well.

In 1929 Vallee did his first film "Vagabond Lover". His live appearances were usually sold out, and even if his singing could hardly be heard in those venues not yet equipt with the new electronic microphones, his screaming female fans went home happy if they had caught sight of his lips through the opening of the trademark megaphone he sang through. Flappers mobbed him wherever he went. Vallee became also perhaps the first complete example of the 20th century mass media pop-star.

Crooners had soft voices that were well suited to the intimacy of the new medium of radio. Vallee became the most prominent of a new style of popular singer, the "crooner". Previously popular singers needed strong projecting voices to fill theaters in the days before the electric microphone. Vallee was given a recording contract, and in 1928 started performing on the radio. However his singing, together with his suave manner and handsome good looks attracted great attention, especially from young women.

He had a rather thin tenor voice and seemed more at home singing sweet ballads than attempting vocals on jazz numbers. He then returned to the States to form his own band, Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees. With this band he started taking vocals (supposedly reluctantly at first). Vallee played clarinet and saxophone in various bands around New England in his youth, in the mid 1920s played with the Savoy Havana Band in London. In high school he took up the saxophone and acquired the nickname "Rudy" after then famous saxophonist Rudy Weidoeft.

Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, he grew up in Westbrook, Maine. Rudy Vallee (July 28, 1901 - July 3, 1986) was a popular United States singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.