[78-L] Boop Continues

[Bill Knowlton]

"Kane lost her case when a piece of sound film made in 1928 proved that a
black nightclub entertainer named Baby Esther was singing Boop-oop-a-doop
long before Helen Kane said she had".

 

In July 1928 Helen Kane made her first record for Victor: "That's My Weakness Now" and "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." She boops in "Weakness."


Helen always said that she booped as an adlib vamp during one of her renditions. It just popped into her head. 

 

I sincerely doubt she ever had HEARD of Baby Esther much less stole the vamp from her.

 

Ed, thanks but I interviewed Helen Kane not Mae Questel...

 
 
 
BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) over WCNY-FM (91.3) Syracuse, WUNY (89.5) Utica, WJNY (90.9) Watertown NY, also: www.wcny.org udmacon1 at hotmail.com  Since 1973! PO Box 2400, Syracuse NY 13220-2400. 315-457-6100
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