Helen Kane - Button Up Your Overcoat 1929 “Boop Oop a Doop“

Victor 21863-A - 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 It-girl 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