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'Baby Esther' Jones, African American singer, entertainer (late 1920s); performed at the Cotton Club, Harlem; Helen Kane saw her cabaret act in 1928, and appropriated the singing style, creating the words "boop-boop-a-doop" in a recording. Kane's coquettish voice, girlish appearance and mannerisms were a source for Grim Natwick's animated character 'Betty Boop'; Kane sued, the company countered that the origin was Baby Esther. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Kane Esther Jones, The Real Betty Boop, Baby Esther, Ebony Magazine Cover, Original Betty Boop, Baby Singing, Ebony Magazine, Paper Magazine, Black Figure

Scat Singing Scat singing[1] is a vocal style using emotive, onomatopoeic improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables, or being fully wordless, which is most associated with jazz. Scat singing has antecedents in the West African practice of assigning fixed syllables to percussion patterns and was originated by African-Americans. The style was made famous by Louis Daniel Armstrong, a popular jazz musician. However it was more popular with African-American female artists of the…

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Esther Jones, known by her stage name "Baby Esther", was an African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s. Her "baby" singing style often included the phrase “Boop-oop-a-doop”. She performed regularly at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Theatrical manager Lou Walton testified during the Fleischer v. Kane trial that Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's cabaret act in 1928 with him and appropriated Jones' style of singing, changing the interpolated words "boo-boo-boo" and "doo-doo-doo" to "boop-boop James Van Der Zee, The Real Betty Boop, Esther Jones, Helen Kane, Baby Esther, The Cotton Club, Baby Singing, Betty Boop Cartoon, Doo Doo

Esther Jones, known by her stage name "Baby Esther", was an African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s. Her "baby" singing style often included the phrase “Boop-oop-a-doop”. She performed regularly at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Theatrical manager Lou Walton testified during the Fleischer v. Kane trial that Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's cabaret act in 1928 with him and appropriated Jones' style of singing, changing the interpolated words "boo-boo-boo" and "doo-doo-doo" to…

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DID YOU KNOW? The Real Betty Boop Was A Black Harlem Jazz Singer! Have you ever heard of Esther Jones “Baby Esther”, born Gertrude Saunders? Not many people have, she has fallen into obscurity despite being the inspiration for the Betty Boop, an iconic character known the world over. Cartoonist Max Fleisher unleashed Betty in 1930, she was a jazz age flapper caricature. The first animation to become a … Real Betty Boop, The Real Betty Boop, Esther Jones, Baby Esther, Betty Boop Quotes, Jazz Singer, Hello April, Black Betty Boop, Betty Boop Cartoon

DID YOU KNOW? The Real Betty Boop Was A Black Harlem Jazz Singer! Have you ever heard of Esther Jones “Baby Esther”, born Gertrude Saunders? Not many people have, she has fallen into obscurity despite being the inspiration for the Betty Boop, an iconic character known the world over. Cartoonist Max Fleisher unleashed Betty in 1930, she was a jazz age flapper caricature. The first animation to become a …

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