Mean To Me 1929 Annette Hanshaw rival Jack Benny

Here is Jack Benny years before radio, and Babe Blake singing the Annette Hanshaw hit, Mean to Me with the composer Fred Alhert at the piano Did she make records and sing on the radio If so I don t know. Maybe she was a flash in the pan. If she sounds like an imitator of Helen Kane, thats because she was She s got the total baby vamp voice, but kindly left the boop a doops to Helen Enjoy Benny was a popular MC discovered by MGM scouts who saw him at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theater. He was signed