Belle Baker (1893-1957)

Overview

According to the Internet source given below, Belle Baker was an American singer of both ragtime and torch songs also a stage and film actress born in New York.
She started performing at the Lower East Side's Cannon Street Music Hall at aged just 11. Four years later she debuted in vaudeville in Scranton, Pennsylvania and when 17 years old she topped-of-the-bill in New York.
She hosted her own radio show during the 1930s Eddie Cantor calling her "Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland all rolled into one ".
As an actress, she starred on Broadway and had a brief film career making her film debut by starring in the Song of Love (1929). A few other films followed the last in 1944.
She died in Los Angeles, California.

Websites:
	Belle Baker	Biography by wikipedia.org.

Belle Baker (1893-1957) has at least 8 item(s) at the Amazons which you can order on-line by clicking the item's order icon.

High-High-High-Up in the Hills Watching the Clouds Roll By
Music by: Maurice Abrahams.
Words by: Sam Lewis, Joe Young
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
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Printed: 1926.	Sheet Music.

Blue Skies
Words and Music by: Irving Berlin.
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Irving Berlin Inc.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1927.	Sheet Music.

Take Everything But You
Music by: Maurice Abrahams.
Co-Author: Elmer Colby
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, Inc.
Suppliers:
Printed: 1929.	Sheet Music 4 pages.

When the Black Sheep Returns to the Fold
Words and Music by: Irving Berlin.
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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⇑ Printed: 1916.	Sheet Music.

Louisville Lou
Music by: Milton Ager.
Words by: Jack Yellen
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Ager, Yellen & Bornstein Inc.
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Printed: 1923.	Sheet Music.

When You're Down in Louisville Call On Me
Words and Music by: Irving Berlin.
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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Printed: 1915.	Sheet Music.

Sing
Music by: Richard Rodgers.
Words by: Lorenz Hart
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Harms Inc.
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Printed: 1921.	Sheet Music.

If You Don't Want Me Why Do You Hang Around
Words and Music by: Irving Berlin.
Perf. by: Belle Baker

Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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⇑ Printed: 1913.	Sheet Music.

Music Hall

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (1915)	N.J. Clesi (music) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano	IMSLP
Texas Prance (1911)	M.J. Gideon (music) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano	IMSLP
Way Down There a Dixie Boy Is Missing (1917)	H.A. Tierney (music) S. Murphy (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Down in Chattanooga (1913)	I. Berlin (music) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano	IMSLP
There's a Million Heroes in Each Corner of the U.S.A	M. Abrahams (music) Sam M. Lewis (words) J. Young (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer

Videos

	Title	Composer	Performer(s)


You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me (1930) (3:13)	S. Fain	Belle Baker
Blue Moon (1934) (2:52)	R. Rodgers	Belle Baker
My Sin (1929) (2:48)	B.G. DeSylva	Belle Baker
I've Got The ''Yes! We Have No Bananas'' Blues (3:17)	J.F. Hanley	Belle Baker

Works

This list is arranged by composer and contains 29 works performed by Belle Baker who is featured on sheet music covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: (w&m) ER

	Title	Composer	Attribution	Remarks


There's a Million Heroes in Each Corner of the U.S.A (1916)	Maurice Abrahams	Sam M. Lewis (words) Joe Young (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
High-High-High-Up in the Hills (1926)	Maurice Abrahams	Sam Lewis (words) Joe Young (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
Take Everything But You (1929)	Maurice Abrahams	Elmer Colby (co-author) Belle Baker (perf.)
Louisville Lou (1923)	Milton Ager	Jack Yellen (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Margaret Young (perf.) Dorothy Taylor (perf.)
You're My Baby (1912)	Nathan D. Ayer	A.S. Brown (words) Elsie West Baker (perf.) Frederick J. Wheeler (perf.) Babe Latour (perf.) Premier Quartet (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.) Blanche Babette (perf.) Hortense Wayne (perf.) Roy Sumner (perf.) Dorothy Brenner (perf.)
Down in Chattanooga (1913)	Irving Berlin	Belle Baker (perf.)
If You Don't Want Me (1913)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) Gladys Clark (perf.) Henry Bergman (perf.)	Pub.
This Is the Life (1914)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	A. Jolson (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
When You're Down in Louisville (1915)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) N. Bayes (perf.)	Pub.
When the Black Sheep Returns to the Fold (1916)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) Mary Russell (perf.)	Pub.
⇑Blue Skies (1927)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) Bing Crosby (perf.)
You're A Great Big Blue Eyed Baby (1913)	Raymond A. Browne(w&m)	Babe Latour (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France (1918)	Alfred Bryan	Cliff Hess (co-author) Edgar Leslie (co-author) Billie Burke (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (1915)	N.J. Clesi	Alice Faye (perf.) Connie Francis (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.) June Elvidge (perf.) John Bowers (perf.)
In Apple Blossom Time (1913)	Charles Neil Daniels	Earle C. Jones (words) Rose de Young (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)
My Sin (1929)	Buddy G. DeSylva(w&m)	Lew Brown (co-author) Ray Henderson (co-author) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me (1930)	Sammy Fain	Irving Kahal (co-author) Pierre Norman (co-author) Belle Baker (perf.)
Texas Prance (1911)	Melville J. Gideon	Belle Baker (perf.)
I'll Still Go on Wanting You (1929)	Bernie Grossman	Mickey Kippel, (co-author) Arthur Sizemore (words) Maurice Abrahams (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
I've Got the Yes! We Have No Banana Blues (1923)	James F. Hanley(w&m)	R.A. King (co-author) Lew Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else (1924), The	Isham Jones	Gus Kahn (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
⇑Crying For You (1923)	Ned Miller(w&m)	Chester Cohn (co-author) Belle Baker (perf.) Nick &. Gladys Verga (perf.)
There's Nothing Sweeter Than a Girl From Dixieland (1917)	Jimmie V. Monaco	G. Clarke (words) Bobbie Smith (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Pub.
Sing (1921)	Richard Rodgers	Lorenz Hart (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
Blue Moon (1934)	Richard Rodgers	Lorenz Hart (words) E. Fitzgerald (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.) Ted Fiorito (perf.)
Way Down There a Dixie Boy Is Missing (1917)	Harry Austin Tierney	Stanley Murphy (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
That Hypnotizing Man (1911)	Albert von Tilzer	Lew Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Ruby Norton (perf.) Sammy Lee (perf.)
Please Don't Take My Lovin' Man Away (1912)	Albert von Tilzer	Lew Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Anna Chandler (perf.)	Pub.