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Esther Jones, known by her stage name "Baby Esther", was an African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s. Her "baby" singing style often included the phrase “Boop-oop-a-doop”. She performed regularly at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Theatrical manager Lou Walton testified during the Fleischer v. Kane trial that Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's cabaret act in 1928 with him and appropriated Jones' style of singing, changing the interpolated words "boo-boo-boo" and "doo-doo-doo" to "boop-boop James Van Der Zee, Esther Jones, Helen Kane, The Real Betty Boop, Baby Esther, The Cotton Club, Vintage Black Glamour, Cotton Club, Doo Doo

Esther Jones, known by her stage name "Baby Esther", was an African-American singer and entertainer of the late 1920s. Her "baby" singing style often included the phrase “Boop-oop-a-doop”. She performed regularly at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Theatrical manager Lou Walton testified during the Fleischer v. Kane trial that Helen Kane saw Baby Esther's cabaret act in 1928 with him and appropriated Jones' style of singing, changing the interpolated words "boo-boo-boo" and "doo-doo-doo" to…

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Scat Singing Scat singing[1] is a vocal style using emotive, onomatopoeic improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables, or being fully wordless, which is most associated with jazz. Scat singing has antecedents in the West African practice of assigning fixed syllables to percussion patterns and was originated by African-Americans. The style was made famous by Louis Daniel Armstrong, a popular jazz musician. However it was more popular with African-American female artists of the…

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