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
Performed by: Belle Baker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


There's a Million Heroes in Each Corner of the U.S.A (1916)	M. Abrahams (music) Sam M. Lewis (words) J. Young (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer
Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (1923)	M. Ager (music) J. Yellen (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
You're My Baby (1912)	N.D. Ayer (music) A.S. Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Down in Chattanooga (1913)	I. Berlin (music) Belle Baker (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano	IMSLP Indiana Sheet Music Singer
If You Don't Want Me (1913)	I. Berlin (w&m) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
This Is the Life (1914)	I. Berlin (w&m) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano	Indiana	Pub.
When the Black Sheep Returns to the Fold (1916)	I. Berlin (w&m) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
⇑When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France (1918)	A. Bryan (music) C. Hess (coauth.) E. Leslie (coauth.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano	Indiana	Pub.
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
That Mellow Melody (1912)	G.W. Meyer (music) Sam M. Lewis (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Mississippi Splash (1911)	J. Shay (music) Green (words) Dave (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Way Down There a Dixie Boy Is Missing (1917)	H.A. Tierney (music) S. Murphy (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Please Don't Take My Lovin' Man Away (1912)	A. von Tilzer (music) L. Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer Indiana
That Hypnotizing Man (1911)	A. von Tilzer (music) L. Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
⇑My Carolina Cutey (1911)	H. von Tilzer (music) Andrew B. Sterling (words) Belle Baker (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana

Videos

	Composer	Title	Performer


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

Works

The peformer is featured on 34 sheet music/recording covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: (w&m) ER

	Title	Composer	Attribution	Items


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.)
Oh! You Million Dollar Doll (1913)	Maurice Abrahams	Grant Clarke (words) Edgar Leslie (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Eva Shirley (perf.)
Louisville Lou (1923)	Milton Ager	Jack Yellen (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (1923)	Milton Ager	Jack Yellen (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
You're My Baby (1912)	Nathan D. Ayer	A. Seymour Brown (words) Blanche Babette (perf.) Belle Baker (perf.) Babe Latour (perf.) Hortense Wayne (perf.)
Down in Chattanooga (1913)	Irving Berlin	Belle Baker (perf.)
If You Don't Want Me (1913)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.)
This Is the Life (1914)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) Al Jolson (perf.)
⇑When You're Down in Louisville (1915)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) Nora Bayes (perf.)
When the Black Sheep Returns to the Fold (1916)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.) Marie Russell (perf.)
Blue Skies (1927)	Irving Berlin(w&m)	Belle Baker (perf.)
You're a Great Big Blue Eyed Baby (1913)	A. Seymour Brown	Belle Baker (perf.)
When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France (1918)	Alfred Bryan	Cliff Hess (co-author) Edgar Leslie (co-author) Belle Baker (perf.)
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (1915)	N.J. Clesi	Belle Baker (perf.)
In Apple Blossom Time (1913)	Charles Neil Daniels	Earle C. Jones (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
My Sin (1929)	Buddy Gard DeSylva(w&m)	Lew Brown (co-author) Ray Henderson (co-author) Belle Baker (perf.)
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.)
⇑I've Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues (1923)	James F. Hanley(w&m)	Robert A. King (co-author) Lew Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
Alabamy Bound (1925)	Ray Henderson	Bud Green (words) B.G. DeSylva (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Eddie Cantor (perf.)
One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else (1924), The	Isham Jones	Gus Kahn (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
That Mellow Melody (1912)	George W. Meyer	Sam M. Lewis (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)	James V. Monaco	Grant Clarke (words) Belle Baker (perf.) Bobbie Smith (perf.)
Sing (1921)	Richard Rodgers	Lorenz Hart (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
Blue Moon (1934)	Richard Rodgers	Lorenz Hart (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
Mississippi Splash (1911)	Jerome Shay	Green (words) Dave (words) Belle Baker (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.)
⇑Please Don't Take My Lovin' Man Away (1912)	Albert von Tilzer	Lew Brown (words) Belle Baker (perf.)
My Carolina Cutey (1911)	Harry von Tilzer	Andrew B. Sterling (words) Belle Baker (perf.)