Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away
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" Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away" is a song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

, written by Sammy Timberg
Sammy Timberg
Sammy Timberg was an American musician and composer who was perhaps most famous for the music he wrote for the cartoons of the Fleischer Studios, such as Popeye, Betty Boop, and Superman...

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It was first recorded for the screen song Musical Justice (1931)
Musical Justice (1931)
Musical Justice is an Paramount Pictures musical short starring Betty Boop and Rudy Vallée.- Plot summary :Musical Justice stars Rudy Vallée as judge and His Connecticut Yankees as jury presiding over the Court of Musical Justice. the judge hears three separate cases...

, with a vocal by Mae Questel
Mae Questel
Mae Questel was an American actress and vocal artist best known for providing the voices for the animated characters, Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, and played occasional small roles in films and television later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's...

. It was then used in the Betty Boop
Betty Boop
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in...

 Talkartoons
Talkartoons
Talkartoons is the name of a series of 42 animated cartoons produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1932.-History:For the Fleischer brothers, the transition to sound was relatively easy...

 cartoon Boop-Oop-a-Doop
Boop-Oop-a-Doop
Boop-Oop-a-Doop is a animated short film created by the Fleischer Studios in 1932 as part of the Talkartoon series.-Plot:The short film begins with a giant Betty Boop flag which flies over the big top. Betty works as a Lion taming artist and a Tightrope walking artist. Another of the other circus...

. The chorus:
You can feed me bread and water,
Or a great big bale of hay,
But don't take my boop-oop-a-doop away!;
You can say my voice is awful,
Or my songs are too risqué.
Oh, but don't take my boop-oop-a-doop away!,

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