Boop-Boop-a-Doop Patent (1934)
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Helen Kane tried to lay claim to the invention of "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" in 1934. But Kane was easily sussed out. The article basically says that several inventors worked on the steam engine and a flying machine, so it might be within the realm of possibility that two massive brains could be inspired independent to "Boop-Boop-a-Doops."
Indicating that someone else, possibly Baby Esther, was the other originator of "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" in which she basically emulated from Florence Mills, who copied from Gertrude Saunders, making Saunders the originator. But when it comes to Helen Kane, it is Baby Esther who is the originator, because Helen saw Esther and copied her.
However Helen was a very big star and well known for her baby-talk and her "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" scat singing. So with Kane she craved the court's aid and hoped that they would decide in her favor.
However in court, Helen was outed as not being original. She was not the first to scat sing in the business and the truth was set free.
African-Americans scat singing is where "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" originated. For more information, look up the musical "Shuffle Along" or look up Gertrude Saunders.
"Shuffle Along" is where "Boop" originated or where it is deprived from, not the musical "Good Boy." Helen Kane just adapted general scat sounds and it turned into "Boop" and "Doop." True research will out Helen as not original.
If you look up Helen's first two recordings, she does not have any "Boops" or "Doops." It is just general scat singing, proving where she got the idea, which was from the Florence Mills impersonator, Baby Esther Jones.
Compare Florence Mills and Esther Jones and you will uncover the truth and true facts as to where the origins lie - which was the all-black Broadway musical "Shuffle Along."
Loads of black stars scat sang in their acts and they also originated jazz too, so it makes sense as to where the origins lie for that style. It was not white people who originated jazz and scat singing, it was African-Americans.
