Regarding the Rudy Vallee recording, Jim Dixon wrote, some time ago, "I remember what set off the laughter, too: in one of the choruses, he pronounces "adieu" in strongly accented (but correct) French, and then he pronounces "you" with exactly the same vowel ("yieu"?). That is how I remembered it also, but on rehearing the record recently I found rhyming "adieu" with "witchya" (Brooklynese for "with you"?) came near the end of the record. The first sign of things going off came about halfway through the record, with Vallee singing "I'll hang my heart on a veeping villow tree". The Vallee and Cox versions of Tavern in the Town make as fine a pair of recordings as the Leona Anderson and the Jonathan and Darlene Edwards (Paul Weston and Jo Stafford) renderings, er...renditions of I Love Paris.