This funny song is one of the 22 sides recorded by Helen Kane (née Schroeder, 1904-1966), who was an American popular singer. Fleischer Studios used Kane as the model for his studio's most famous creation, Betty Boop. She spent the early 1920s trouping in vaudeville as a singer and kickline dancer with a theater engagement called the All Jazz Revue. career break came in 1927, when she appeared in a musical called A Night in Spain. Although the musical closed after 22 performances, band conductor Paul Ash put her name forward. In the 1928 show Good Boy, where she first introduced the hit, "I Wanna Be Loved by You" . Then it was back to the Palace, as a headliner for $5,000 a week. She rejoined her friends from vaudeville. She blended several fashionable styles of the late 1920s. These included scat singing, a kind of vocal improvisation, and also blending singing and speech ('Sprechgesang'). This is a studio renditon of her performance in the homonymous 1930 film.
