CLASSIC HELEN KANE(BETTY BOOP) 78 I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU US VICTOR 214684 E-/V+
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A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS ORIGINAL CLASSIC 78 FROM HELEN KANE
THE VOICE & FACE THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION OF BETTY BOOP
I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU
b/w IS THERE ANYTHING WROING IN THAT
WONDERFUL STUFF!!
"I Wanna Be Loved by You" is a song written by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, for the 1928 musical "Good Boy". It was chosen as one of the Songs of the Century in a survey made by the RIAA in which 200 people responded (out of 1300 asked). One of Marilyn Monroe's most famous musical performances is her singing it in Billy Wilder's classic farce Some Like It Hot.
The song "was introduced in 1928 by Helen Kane, who became known as the 'Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl' because of her baby-talk, scat-singing tag line to that song. Two years later, a cartoon character named Betty Boop was modeled after Kane."
The song has also been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Rhonda Towns, Rose Murphy, Tina Louise, Verka Serduchka, Patricia Kaas, Sinead O'Connor, Annette Hanshaw, Shiina Ringo and Lorraine Allan (formerly Lorraine Gray).
The cartoon character was created as a parody of Helen Kane, with Fleischer standby Mae Questel (she also played Olive Oyl) doing a pitch-perfect imitation of Kane’s girlish Bronx-accented chirp. When Betty Boop proved to be more successful than Kane — a night at the movies was cheaper than a performance by one of the biggest names in show biz as the Depression got underway — Kane sued the moguls for wrongful appropriation and lost, with the result that Betty Boop is a pop icon and her inspiration is forgotten except by historical obssessives like me. But “boop-oop-a-doop” remains fixed in cultural memory as a signature sound of the Roaring Twenties, a sort of virginal white scatting for an era which found its ultimate expression in nonsense and language play, whether Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, George Herriman and Billy DeBeck, or “twenty-three skidoo” and “vo-de-o-do.”
Record Details1928 US VICTOR 21684 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
Condition = E-/V+
scuffs and scrapes but plays GREAT
DON'T MISS OUT BUY NOW!
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