Popeye Meets Betty Boop, the 78s of Helen Kane Meets Billy Costello

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour

In honor of "Popeye Month" on BearManor Radio,
the cans of spinach and garter belts will be flying when Joe Bev presents
"Popeye Meets Betty Boop, the 78s of Helen Kane Meets Billy Costello"
on this week's The Jazz-O-Rama Hour, including:
I'm Pop-eye the Sailor Man - Billy Costello (1935)
I Wanna Be Loved By You - Helen Kane (1928)
Man on the Flying Trapeze - Billy Costello (1934)
Button Up Your Overcoat Helen Kane (1929)
The Teddy Bear's Picnic - Billy Costello (1935)
That's Why I'm Happy - Helen Kane- (1929)
Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing - Billy Costello (1935)
I Have to Have You - Helen Kane (1929)
Good Ship Yakihiki Dooda - Billy Costello (1935)
My Man is on the Make - Helen Kane (1930)
Nagasaki - Billy Costello (1935)
I Want to Be Bad - Helen Kane (1929)
Dinah - Billy Costello (1935)
Dangerous Nan McGrew - Helen Kane (1930)
Tiger Rag - Billy Costello (1935)

William "Billy" Costello a.k.a. "Red Pepper Sam", was the original
voice of Popeye the Sailor in animated cartoons. Costello had worked
with the Fleischer Studio as the voice of Gus the Gorilla on the Betty
Boop radio show and they felt that the raspy voice he had used for that
character would work for the new Popeye character they were planning.
He was cast to provide the voice for the first Popeye cartoon, 1933's
Popeye the Sailor. Costello appeared in the next 24 Popeye shorts until
he was fired by the Fleischers, allegedly over "bad behavior," and was
replaced with Jack Mercer. Costello's final appearance was in You
Gotta Be A Football Hero (1935).

Helen Kane became known as the 'Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl' because of
her baby-talk, scat-singing tag line to that song. This version was
recorded right when Kane's popularity started to reach its peak,
and became her signature song. Kane's first performance at the
Paramount Theater in Times Square proved to be her career's launching
point. She was singing "That's My Weakness Now", when she interpolated
the scat lyrics “boop-boop-a-doop.” This resonated with the flapper culture,
and four days later, Helen Kane’s name went up in lights.Two years later,
a cartoon character named Betty Boop was modeled after Kane. In 1930,
Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick introduced a caricature of
Helen Kane, with droopy dog ears and a squeaky singing voice, in the
Talkartoons cartoon Dizzy Dishes. "Betty Boop", as the character was
later dubbed, soon became popular and the star of her own cartoons.
In 1932, Betty Boop was changed into a human, the long dog ears becoming
hoop earrings. Helen Kane unsuccessfully sued Max Fleischer over the character.

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