The Yacht Club Boys
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
The Yacht Club Boys were a popular cabaret, radio and recording group
named after the popular New York City nightclub where they first
performed in the mid-1920s. The members were
James V. Kern,
Charles Adler,
George Kelly and
Billy Mann. In 1939, in the August
issue of "Dime Detective Magazine" in a
Raymond Chandler fictional story
entitled "Trouble Is My Business", they were mentioned by the
first-person narrator:
" I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shover. I need a guy who can act like a bar lizard and backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line tapped him with a breadstick.
It's a cinch, I said, you need the New York Yankees, Robert Donat, and the The Yacht Club Boys."
" I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shover. I need a guy who can act like a bar lizard and backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line tapped him with a breadstick.
It's a cinch, I said, you need the New York Yankees, Robert Donat, and the The Yacht Club Boys."
