AN EXCELLENT PLAYING COPY OF THIS CLASSIC MGM 78 FROM HELEN KANE

 THE VOICE & FACE THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION OF BETTY BOOP

 

  I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU   

"I Wanna Be Loved by You" is a song written by and , with lyrics by , for the 1928 musical "Good Boy". It was chosen as one of the in a survey made by the in which 200 people responded (out of 1300 asked). One of 's most famous musical performances is her singing it in 's classic farce .

The song "was introduced in 1928 by , 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 was modeled after Kane."

The song has also been recorded by , , , , , , , , and Lorraine Allan (formerly Lorraine Gray).

"I Wanna Be Loved By You"   Sweet and young Debbie Reynolds in MGM's film "Three Little Words" (1950) performing "I Wanna Be Loved By You". The voice belongs to Helen Kane who dubbed Debbie here.  

Two cultural associations which have (somehow) survived the ravages of history are probably the best entry point into this song and to Helen Kane in general (that is, if any are needed: like most great pop it stands on its own and needs to make no apology to the losers who can’t get it): Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop.

 

Marilyn first: she sang this song in Some Like It Hot, in the role of a 1920s singer who incidentally would never have been looked at twice in the real twenties; womanly curves were decidedly passé in the era of the flat-chested, sleek-headed flapper (with the exception of Mae West, but she was never so much a sex symbol as a genius marketer who made sex a symbol for Mae West). It’s one of the few tolerable performances of Monroe’s highly undistinguished singing career (exhaling is not a substitute for vocalizing), and works mostly because of the cultural memory of Kane’s all-conquering hit. And now to La Boop. 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.”

    DISC DETAILS:   UK MGM 335 10" 78rpm SHELLAC   A SIDE: HELEN KANE - I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU   B SIDE: FRED ASTAIRE & RED SKELTON - MEDLEY FROM THREE LITTLE WORDS   CONDITION - EX-    light scuffs       HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO PICK UP AN EXCELLENT PLAYING COPY OF HELEN KANE'S CLASSIC BETTY BOOP NUMBER...  

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