Some of the information is Boop-Oop-a-Dooping full of SPOILERS. Boop-Oop-a-Doop! Félix Mayol
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Felix Mayol (18 November 1872 – 26 October 1941) was a French singer who was born in Toulon, France. His parents were both amateur singers and actors, who arranged for Felix to make his debut stage at six years of age.
Mayol moved to Paris's Montparnasse Quarter in 1895, when he started a more than forty-year career in entertainment. As part of his theatrical identity, he took on a campy, effeminate demeanor when performing.
He bought a piece of property in Toulon shortly after the First World War and gave it to the local sports team, RC Toulonnais, so they could build a stadium. After a number of restorations, the stadium now known as Stade Mayol in his honor is still in use as the home field for the rugby team of Toulon.
Mayol was referenced in the $250,000 Infringement Lawsuit, where it was stated that Helen Kane "might" have taken her scat lyric idea (or been inspired) by Mayol's 1915 recording of "Bou Dou Ba Boum", which Kane denied.[1]
Extensive research by the "Betty Boop Wikia Fandom" has shown that Mayol actually "shouts" the name of an African soldier in the song, and it sounds like a common scat rhyme, with no scat.
Evidence Against Kane
Edith Griffith and Felix Mayol were also used as evidence against Helen Kane, but the old footage of Baby Esther performing her unique scat singing routine helped prove that Kane was not the first "Boop-Oop-a-Doop" singer and or first person to interject "meaningless sounds" into songs (another example would be shouting a complicated African name in a song), in the music business.
Trivia
- In 1895 he went to Paris and the Montparnasse Quarter where he began a career in entertainment that spanned more than forty years. He adopted a camp and effeminate manner on stage as part of his theatrical persona.
- Mayol sported a trademark quiff.
- Felix can be heard interjecting the "Bou-Doo-Da-Ba-Boo" into his 1913 song "Bou Dou Ba Boum".
- The teenage Maurice Chevalier took a risk by impersonating Mayol in small-time cafe entertainments, Mayol recognised the young man's talent and gave him his blessing. It led Chevalier to the Casino de Paris and the Follies Bergère.
- It has been alleged that Mayol was secretly gay. He was alleged to have have wooed a young Maurice Chevalier.