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I Wanted to Share Songs From the Great Mae QuestelMae Questel The Voice Of Betty Boop

Updated, The Music Of Mae Questel in the Archive. By BoopBoopaddoop

Mae Questel was the woman behind the voice of Olive Oyl, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audry, Little Lulu, and Betty Boop. Born in the Bronx in 1912,

at the age of 17 by winning a competition that was held in the RKO Fordham Theater in order to select a young lady who could most successfully imitate Helen Kane's whiny neurotic baby talk act, already becoming famous for its tag line, "Boop-boop-be-doop." The Helen Kane impersonation contest was held immediately after a live Helen Kane performance, which Questel claimed to have watched most carefully. Triumphant and now armed with an RKO vaudeville circuit contract, she began working steadily as "Mae Questel -- Personality Singer of Personality Songs" in 1930, impersonating Fanny Brice, Marlene Dietrich, Ruth Etting, Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallée, and Maurice Chevalier. In 1931, not long after Max Fleischer and his team of horny animators developed a flirtatious cartoon character who gyrated across the silver screen while emitting a steady stream of "boops" and "doops," Questel was chosen to provide voice-overs for this creature's outbursts. More than 150 Betty Boop cartoons were made over the next eight years,


Helen Kane eventually sued the Fleischer studios for swiping her persona -- and lost. Several singers hopped on the Boop bandwagon, including Annette Hanshaw and someone billed only as "the Mystery Girl,Who was known as kathryn/catherine Wright aka Kate wright who was also another voice for Betty Boop" but Mae Questel out-Booped them all with a series of cutesy, Boop-infested records made in the mid-'30s, including "On the Good Ship Lollipop" and "At the Codfish Ball." These ditsy yet immensely popular million-seller recordings soon put her in direct competition with the prepubescent Shirley Temple. Also in the mid-'30s, Mae Questel came up with voices for the Popeye cartoons; she spoke through both the infantile Swee' Pea and gangly, elastic Olive Oyl, whose voice she said grew out of her imitation of actress Zasu Pitts.


"However, Mae had to have known that Betty was based on Helen. Her entire career was based on her original impersonation of Helen Kane. On the night of the fateful contest,Helen Kane had autographed a photo to Mae that said, 'To another Helen Kane.'"


The Songs In this Archive are -

1 - The Music Goes Round and Round
2 - The Broken Record
3 - Aintcha - A Helen Kane imitation Recorded On a Betty Boop Cartoon in 1932 as betty boop called Betty Boop limited.
4 - Animal Crackers in My soup - Another Shirley temple themed song
5 - At The Codfish Ball - A Shirley Temple Themed Song By mae questel
6 - Chameleon Days - Recorded by mae questel in Some old movie she was 89
7 - Dont Take my Boop Oop e Doop Away - Mae Questels First Recording
8 - I want you for Christmas - Recorded in 1937 by mae questel
9 - Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly Im In Love
10 - On The Good Ship Lollipop - An Earlier version recorded by mae Questel a Shirley Temple Themed Song
11 - Thats My Weakness now - Another Helen kane imitation as Betty Boop From stopping the Show 1932
12 - The Girl in the Little Green Hat - Side 2 of Dont Take my Boop oop e Doop Away
13 - The Right somebody to Love - Another Shirley temple based song
14 - When i Grow Up! - Another shirley temple themed song
15 - Youd Be Suprised - Starts In the middle of the song, Becuse Oh Gee Oh Gosh oh golly im in love , had finished before that
16 - You gotta Eat your spinach Baby - Another Shirley Templed Themed Song - But changed into a popeye themed song by Mae questel
17 - Mae Questel and Rudy Vallee - Dont Take My Boop Oop a Doop Away 1931
18 - On The Good Ship Lollipop - A Slow Version another shirley templed based song.
19 - Button Up Your Overcoat - Sang by Mae Questel when she was older, it shows all her betty boop acts were an imitation of Helen kane <3


This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio

Artist/Composer: I Wanted to Share Songs From the Great Mae Questel
Keywords: Mae Questel Kwestel Betty Boop Cartoon Song Shirley Temple Helen Kane 1920s 1930 1934 1935 World War Cartoon Queen Flapper childrens songs rhymes themes

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Reviewer: BoopBoopaddoop - - November 10, 2009
Subject: Mae Questel The Voice Behind the Cartoons
She Was The Voice Behind Casper, Olive oyl, Popeye, Little audrey, little lulu, And many other Cartoon characters,
She Did imitate Helen kane becuse helen kane signed her a autograph saying > To the Other Me.
Mae Questels Mainly Reconised For her Main Role Voice for The Cartoon 1930s character Betty Boop she even played betty boop in Musical justice 1931 also claimed to have lived the life of betty boop also known as the betty boop girl

after Helen kane did Quited being the Boop Boop a Doop Girl mainly becuse she wasnt in fashion anymore ... Mae questel did then become the boop oop a doop girl/ The Betty Boop Girl, Adding some Boops in any decca songs she made, Like the song I want you for xmas,and at the end of On The Good Ship Lollipop

Mae Questel R.I.P You Will always be Remembered For Your Role As Betty Boop.