Betty Boop- Screen Song- Betty Co-ed-1931
BackRudy Vallee's 1930 hit song "Betty Co-ed" was not originally about Betty Boop & even spoke in the lyrics of her golden hair. She was otherwise the flapper type in college for flirtation sake rather than education. The following year after this was a big hit for Rudy, the Fleisher brothers made a "follow the bouncing ball" cartoon Betty Co-ed (1931), featuring a flapper not unlike Betty Boop though primitively drawn compared to Betty, though not really her. It was likely because of this bouncing ball song that Rudy's next bouncing ball tune for the Fleischers featured Betty as Kitty from Kansas City. I've wondered if this was an experiment for revamping Betty as more oriented toward children, as she has a Bimbo-like boyfriend who isn't Bimbo also more primitive & child-oriented. Just about everything in this film could have been about Bimbo & Betty, & it's hard to comprehend why the Fleischers would make such a close approximation of both characters. The not-Bimbo's sweater has an "F" on it, standing for what, I dunno. It begins Merry Melodies-like as sundry animals in the woods play a ragtime song. Doggy "F" has a few mild encounters then is deposited by a tree at the door of a frat house. "Betty," a girl with enormous feet, a flapper's bob, enters the frat house & begins giving spankings to fat boys. Rudy Vallee then appears in live-action footage singing his hit "Betty Co-Ed." There's a Yale flag on the wall over his shoulder an an "M" on his letterman's sweater. After singing it through once, it goes again with Follow the Bouncing Ball lyrics on the screen, below animation of sundry animal college boys who love Betty Co-ed.
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