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Japan Betty Boop
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Nippon Betty Boop[1] was known in real life as singer Alice Hamada. She was a Japanese artist who used to sing in the Betty Boop style of singing. Her name translates as Japan Betty Boop.[2]
From 1929 to 1940, she used to tour as a singer and dancer in Japan, along with her sister Lila Hamada. Alice went on to record several songs in the US from 1934 to 1937.
Her recordings were recorded in both English and Japanese. Most of Hamada's songs were recorded before World War II. Betty Boop was a popular character in Japan in the early 1930s until the Second World War in which Betty an American animated icon alongside Mickey Mouse and Popeye were then considered enemies of Japan, which can be seen depicted in various Japanese posters.
Recordings
- "Tweet Tweet Tweet" (1934)
- "恋の思案顔" (1934)
- "Alone" (1934)
- "I'm Nobody's Baby" (???)
- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (1937)
Trivia
- The background music was played by the Columbia Jazz Band.
- Other artists that sang in a similar style to Alice Hamada were Lila Hamada and Nina Hamada, who were Alice's sisters, and were featured on one of her recordings. Others included Helen Sumita, Margaret Yuki, Mimi Himyajima, Cherry Miyano and Hirai Eiko, most of them from the ages of 8-17 and were dubbed nursery rhyme singers.
- Several of the artists' recordings were released in 2011 on a CD titled "オ人形タイナ".
- Alice Hamada the Nippon Betty Boop girl was given a shout-out by a singer known as Betty Yuzu (ベティゆず), who later decided to cover Hamada's pre-war "I'm Nobody's Baby" recording.
- Nippon Betty Boop is not the voice for Betty Boop in the Japanese dubbed cartoons. The Japanese voices for Betty Boop are Mariko Mukai in the earliest dubs and the Japanese dub of The Romance of Betty Boop, Chika Sakamoto in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Horikawa Sanae, Yūko Mizutani and Akina Nakamori.