Yacht Club Boys

The Yacht Club Boys were a quartet of American comic singers, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The best-known set of Yacht Club Boys consisted of Charlie Adler, George Kelly, Jimmie Kern, and Billy Mann. They made recordings from the 1920s and appeared as a specialty act in several feature films and short subjects of the 1930s. The Yacht Club Boys' screen career and on-screen behavior paralleled those of The Ritz Brothers, a musical-comedy trio doing the same type of musical burlesques.

Charlie Adler, son of a New York tailor, broke into show business in 1919 as a singer (alongside future stars Jimmy Durante and Vincent Lopez) in a Coney Island beer parlor, and spent the next 12 years on stage in America and Europe. George Kelly was a dancer, singer, and comedian in eastern cabarets. Jimmie Kern spent six years studying law at Fordham University and another two years practicing law. Billy Mann worked in vaudeville and worked with Sophie Tucker in the Ziegfeld Follies. The four men joined forces in 1931 and worked steadily through 1939.

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