Helen Kane Button Up Your Overcoat 1929 Boop Oop a Doop

Victor 21863A This Song Peaked At, 3 On US Music Charts In 1929. Song written by Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva Lew Brown. This Is The Original Victor Version, I Also Have The Remastered One Posted As Well. Helen Kane (August 4, 1904 September 26, 1966) was an American popular singer; her signature song was I Wanna Be Loved By You. Kane s voice and appearance were a likely source for Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick when creating Betty Boop, although Itgirl Clara Bow is another possible influence. Born as Helen Clare Schroeder, Kane attended St. Anselm s Parochial School in the Bronx. She was the youngest of three children. Her father, Louis Schroeder, the son of a German immigrant, 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 onsta