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Listen to Helen Kane, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!

Helen Kane

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Listen to He's So Unusual by Helen Kane, see lyrics, music video & more!
He's So UnusualHelen Kane
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I Wanna Be Loved by YouHelen Kane
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I Wanna Be Loved By You (Remastered)Helen Kane
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Ain'tcha (Remastered)Helen Kane
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I Wanna Be Loved By You (Digitally Remastered)Helen Kane
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That's My Weakness NowHelen Kane
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Aba Daba Honeymoon (Remastered)Helen Kane
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I Want to Be BadHelen Kane
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Me and the Man in the MoonHelen Kane
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Button Up Your Overcoat (Remastered)Helen Kane

Latest Release

Listen to The Boop-oop-a-Doop Queen by Helen Kane
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More albums from Helen Kane

Listen to I Want to Be Bad by Helen Kane
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Listen to Hug Me! Kiss Me! Love Me! by Helen Kane
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Helen Kane's Popular Music Videos

Watch The Kerry Dance (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 12, 1961) music video by Helen Kane
The Kerry Dance (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 12, 1961)
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About Helen Kane

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Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Born
August 4, 1904
Genre
Pop
Helen Kane is one of an elite group of performers, the essence of whose entire careers can be captured with a simple, silly, and catchy expression. "Boop-boop-be-doop!" does it for Kane, just like "I can't get no satisfaction" sums up Mick Jagger. It is a pity that these two careers have little else in common; how nice it would be, for example, if a cartoon character based on some aspect of Jagger's personality had become much more famous than Jagger himself. That's just what happened with Betty Boop and Kane, but it was not the singer who actually worked the voice of the flapper-cartoon heroine. The Boop-scoop, so to speak, was provided by a performer named Mae Questal, first-place winner in a contest to imitate the sound of Kane's voice. Like many performers burdened with one overwhelming association, Kane's career was actually much more diverse. She was involved with show business for much of her life, not only as a singer but also as an actress in the early-'30s Hollywood films, and a costume designer as well. Kane was a Bronx gal whose real name was Helen Schroeder. Some mildly amusing siblings known as the Marx Brothers were the ones who got her started in show business; she was 17 at the time. She began appearing in Broadway musicals in 1927, and a 1928 show entitled Good Boy was the source of the "boop-boop-be-doop," a musical request entitled "I Wanna Be Loved by You," specifically. An aspect of her approach to the song, delivering it in a toddler's voice, in turn became a stylistic trademark of some of the so-called "flapper" tuneage created by singers such as Kane and Annette Hanshaw. The character of Betty Boop evolved out of all this while Kane was a contract player at the Paramount studio, also the home of animation genius Max Fleischer. It wasn't he who first drew the character, however. The original animator, the pleasant-sounding Grim Natwick, supposedly created Betty Boop by combining attributes of Kane and a French poodle! In a 1950 film biography of "I Want to Be Loved by You" songwriters Kalmar & Ruby, the part of Kane was played by none other than Debbie Reynolds, but it is actually Kane's voice providing the "boop-boop-be-doop." ~ Eugene Chadbourne

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