# Crooning Reclaimed

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Podcast: [Generation X Offender](https://stenobird.com/podcast/generation-x-offender-7086423)
Published: 2026-01-25T08:29:43+00:00
Episode link: https://thedukesofatmosphere.podbean.com/e/crooning-reclaimed/
Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jjtjmaig7md2upb6/Tanner_Burnsauyit.m4a
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Tanner Burns Is Bringing Crooning Back!But what, might you ask, is Crooning?Crooning is a smooth, intimate style of singing that originated in the 1920s. The crooning style was made possible by widespread access to electricity and improvements made to microphones that picked up quieter sounds and a wider range of frequencies than ever before.This dominant popular vocal style coincided with the advent of radio broadcasting and electrical recording. Before widespread use of microphones, singers had to project their voices to the very back of the theater, making for a loud vocal style. Microphones made quieter, more personal, intimate singing possible.Historians believe the suggestion of intimacy in song was wildly attractive to women at the time, especially within the youth subculture known as bobby soxers.The crooning style developed quickly among singers who performed with big bands, reaching its height by the 1940s through to the late 1960s.Al Bowlly and Bing Crosby are often credited with inventing the crooning style, but it was Rudy Vallée who brought about its widespread popularity.From 1929 through to 1939, his highly rated radio program beamed in the sophistication of an exquisite New York City night club, where Vallée stood like a statue, surrounded by handsome, clean-cut collegiate band musicians, sensually cradling a saxophone in his arms.Vallée's first film, The Vagabond Lover, was promoted with the tagline, “Men Hate Him! Women Love Him!" while his success brought press warnings of “this punk from Maine, Vallée, with the dripping voice, required mounted police to beat back crowds of screaming and swooning females".But that was then.This is now.And by now, we mean Tanner Burns now.Prince Edward Island’s darling of the opera set, Burns has turned his gaze towa…

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