"BETTY BOOP GIRL" HELEN KANE 78 BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT

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TWO GREAT SIDES ON THIS 1929 UK HMV 78 FROM HELEN KANE

 THE VOICE & FACE THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR BETTY BOOP

Born as Helen Schroeder, Kane attended St. Anselm’s Parochial School in the Bronx. She was the youngest of three children. Her German immigrant father, Louis Schroeder, was employed intermittently; her Irish immigrant mother, Ellen (Dixon) Schroeder, worked in a laundry.

Kane's mother reluctantly paid $3 for her daughter's costume as a queen in Kane's first theatrical role at school. By the time she was 15 years, Kane was onstage professionally, touring the Orpheum Circuit with the Marx Brothers in On the Balcony.

She spent the early 1920s trouping in vaudeville as a singer and kickline dancer with a theater engagement called the 'All Jazz Revue.' She played the New York Palace for the first time in 1921. Her Broadway days started there as well with the Stars of the Future (1922-24, and a brief revival in early 1927). She also sang onstage in an early singing trio, The Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce.

Kane's roommate was Jessie Fordyce. Though the act might have become the Hamilton Sisters and Schroeder, Pearl Hamilton instead chose Fordyce to tour as a trio act "just to see what happens" at the end of a theatrical season. fue un cuero

Kane's career break came in 1927, when she appeared in a musical called A Night in Spain. Although the musical closed after only 22 performances, Paul Ash, the band conductor, put her name forward for a performance at New York's Paramount Theater).

Kane's first performance at the Paramount Theater in Times Square proved to be her career's launching point. She was singing "That's My Weakness Now", when she interpolated the scat lyrics “boop-boop-a-doop.” This resonated with the flapper culture, and four days later, Helen Kane’s name went up in lights.

Oscar Hammerstein’s 1928 show Good Boy, where she first introduced the hit, "I Wanna Be Loved by You" . Then it was back to the Palace, as a headliner for $5,000 a week. She rejoined her friends from vaudeville, The Three X Sisters (formerly The Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce) for one night. In a 1935 live stage performance, she harmonized with their unique banter to a novelty tune, "The Preacher and the Bear".

Kane had excellent diction, intonation and timing, learned during her apprenticeship in vaudeville. Her songs have a strong word focus, and capitalize on her coquettish voice. She blended several fashionable styles of the late 1920s. These included scat singing, a kind of vocal improvisation, and also blending singing and speech. Sprechgesang ("speech-song") was fashionable at this time in Germany's Weimar Republic in both nightclubs and in serious music.

Kane recorded 22 songs between 1928 and 1930. After 1930 and up to 1951, she recorded only five more, including a re-release of "I Wanna Be Loved by You"

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