
She was singing " That's My Weakness Now", when she interpolated the scat lyrics "boop-oop-a-doop".


Kane's first performance at the Paramount Theater in Times Square proved to be her career's launching point. Subsequently, Paul Ash, a band conductor, put Kane's name forward for a performance at New York's Paramount Theater. It ran from May 3 through Nov 12, 1927, for a total of 174 performances, at the 44th Street Theatre in New York City. Kane's career break came in 1927, when she appeared in a musical called A Night in Spain. The singing trio act might have become the Hamilton Sisters and Schroeder, but Pearl Hamilton chose Fordyce to tour as a trio act "just to see what happens" at the end of the theatrical season. Kane's roommate in the early 1920s was Jessie Fordyce. She also sang onstage with an early singing trio, the Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce, later known as The Three X Sisters. Her Broadway days started there, as well with the Stars of the Future (1922–24, and a brief revival in early 1927). She played the New York Palace for the first time in 1921. She spent the early 1920s trouping in vaudeville as a singer and kickline dancer with a theater engagement called the "All Jazz Revue". By the time she was 15 years old, Kane was onstage professionally, touring the Orpheum Circuit with the Marx Brothers in On the Balcony. Kane's mother reluctantly paid $3 (approximately a day's pay) for her daughter's costume as a queen in Kane's first theatrical role at school.
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Her father, Louis Schroeder, a German immigrant, was employed intermittently as a wagon driver her Irish-immigrant mother, Ellen (born Dixon) Schroeder, worked in a laundry. Anselm's Parochial School in The Bronx, New York City. Kane attempted to sue the studio for claims of stealing her signature "boop-oop-a-doop" style, but the judge decided that the proof of this was insufficient, thus dismissing the case. Kane's voice and appearance were thought to be a source for Fleischer Studios animators when creating Betty Boop.

The song was written for Good Boy by the songwriting team Kalmar and Ruby. Her signature song was " I Wanna Be Loved by You" (1928), featured in the 1928 stage musical Good Boy. Helen Kane (born Helen Clare Schroeder, Aug – September 26, 1966) was an American singer and actress.
