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Babe Glick
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Babe Glick was a baby-talk radio artist from San Francisco.
In 1928, she debuted as "the little" blues singer. The West Coast Varieties presented Babe Glick singing all the latest songs. She was that popular that she was asked to go to Hollywood to make screen tests.
She appeared in a vaudeville act called "Glick and Gordon".
She was the featured attraction for the nightly radio broadcasts for the National Broadcasting Company, and had an important role in The Song Shop, made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that featured star Jack Benny,[1] Gus Edwards and a number of song-writers. In the musical short she sang the popular melody "Mean To Me" written by Fred Alhert and Roy Turk.
In the musical skit The Song Writers' Revue, Glick introduces the popular song "Mean To Me", most popularly recorded by Annette Hanshaw. She jokingly flirts with Jack Benny, who seems upset that she's with her mother. He responds by being mean to her, and dismisses her.
A 1929 "Film House Reviews" stated that Babe Glick was a local girl, baby-talk singer that worked with famous comedian and band leader Rube Wolf, but that she needed a lot of experience.
She also appeared with Peggy Rollins in a parlor scene, in Archie Gottler's release 2670 Vitaphone film short titled His Songs Are Sung in a Million Homes. Selections all by Gottler included: "I Hate To Lose You", "Would You Rather Be a Colonel with an Eagle on Your Shoulder", "There Must Be Somebody Else", "America, I Love You", "I'm Afraid of You", "The Letter That Never Reached Home", "Lila", "I'm Glad My Wife's in Europe", "Those Charlie Chaplin Feet", "In the Goldfields of Nevada", "Shines in Virginia", "What Do You Mean By Loving Somebody Else?", "Oh, Is She Dumb", "The Letter That Never Reached Home", and "Oogie Oogie Wa Wa".
It would seem that Glick's career had dwindled after 1931.
Quotes
- Babe Glick: "I'm glad you liked that. (1929)
- Babe Glick: "Thank you Mister Benny. (1929)
- Babe Glick: "No, I'm with my mother." (1929)
- Babe Glick: "Oh... Mister Benny..." (1929)
Trivia
- It was said that Glick was a dead ringer for Helen Kane,[2] the New York musical comedy favorite.
- When Jack Benny introduced her in a musical sequence, it sounds like she and Benny are introducing her as "Babe Blake", but they are actually saying Babe Glick.
- The Song-Shop was renamed The Song Writers' Revue.