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Belle Baker
12+ albums
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Belle Baker (25 December 1893, New York City, New York - 29 April 1957, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer and actress. Belle Baker was on the sheet music cover of Nick Clesi's 1916 hit "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" Born Bella Becker, she rose to fame as a vaudeville vocalist, appearing on Broadway and in nightclubs, films, radio and television. In the early 1920s, when she was well known as The Ragtime Singer, Baker took part in a Baltimore song competition with Catherine Calvert, the Hamilton Sisters (Pearl and Violet) and Jessie Fordyce. She was the first artist to record "All of Me," one of the most recorded songs of its era, and she was also the first person in the United States to do a radio broadcast from a moving train. In 1926, Baker had the title role in Broadway's Betsy. She introduced Irving Berlin's "Blues Skies" in the Florenz Ziegfeld production, which ran for 39 performances from December 28, 1926 to January 29, 1927. With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, the musical comedy had a book by Irving Caesar and David Freedman. Victor Baravelle was the musical director. On radio, she was a guest performer on The Eveready Hour, broadcasting's first major variety show, which featured Broadway's top headliners. After roles in the films Song of Love (1929) and Charing Cross Road (1935), she appeared as herself in Atlantic City (1944). She was married to the composer Maurice Abrahams (1883-1931), who wrote the songs "I'm Walking with the
top songs
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (To Me You Are So Beautiful)
5452Overnight
2923Sing You Sinners (Recorded April 1930)
1394I Still Go on Wanting You
1265That's How I Feel About You
1156In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town
1077Jubilee Blues
1068Duvid Hamelech's Fidel
1029YOU BROUGHT A NEW KIND OF LOVE TO ME.
10110In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - BELLE BAKER
92albums
![Encore 2 (1920’s Blues & Jazz Vocals) [Recorded 1929-1940]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/100d11750d7fed632781191a99798009.png)
Encore 2 (1920’s Blues & Jazz Vocals) [Recorded 1929-1940]
![Belle Baker (Encore 1) [Recorded 1919-1929]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/82f32be40f8bfefff593fa6168aee547.png)
Belle Baker (Encore 1) [Recorded 1919-1929]
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From Avenue A To The Great White Way: Yiddish & American Popular Songs 1914-1950
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The Wonderful 30s
Top 50 Classics - The Very Best of Belle Baker
Vintage Chansons
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100 Traditional Yiddish, Hewbrew & Jewish Folk Classics
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That Devilin' Tune - a Jazz History, 1895-1950 Volume 1 (Disc 5)
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Sentimental Journey 65
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The First Torch Singers, Vol. I: The Twenties
My Sin