Witnesses Tell of Boops Heard Before Helen Kane's (1934)

A number of witnesses testified before Supreme Justice Edward J. McGoldrick today that they had heard "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" songs long before Helen Kane says she introduced them to the public.

Miss Kane insists that she was the originator of the technique which she has claimed as hers since 1928, and that the technique was stolen by Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, Inc., and Paramount-Public corporation in the promotion of Betty Boop animated cartoons.

The first witness today was Alfred Evans, who said that in 1927, a year before Helen Kane first offered a "Boop," he heard Edith Griffith, who affected a baby voice in her stage performances.

Marion Luber, a dancer told the court that in early 1928, she heard Baby Esther a Negro child performer, employ the "Boop" style of singing.