Dubbing Through The Decades

Here are some of the most important and interesting examples of movie dubbing, If you check the other clips on this channel and at lostvocals3, you can watch many of these songs with the performer's own voice restored. I've been able to do this for:

Natalie Wood
Audrey Hepburn
Rosalind Russell
Debbie Reynolds
Ava Gardner
Leslie Caron
Joan Crawford
Juanita Hall
Cyd Charisse
Patty Duke
Elizabeth Taylor
Sharon Vaughn
Christopher Plummer
Richard Beymer
Peter Finch

This clip would not have been possible without the amazing Dubber's List compiled by Ray Hagen, Laura Wagner, and Steven Tompkins.

http://www.barbaralea.com/Dubbers/dubbers.html

Thanks for all the research!

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[lisbon6]

I would add Jessica Lange in Sweet Dreams... she lip-synced the entire thing to Patsy Cline.

[lostvocals6]

@lisbon6

Good idea! Subscribe to be alerted when I post an expanded vesion.

[hallemil]

This is amazing! I am still so at wonder how you have been able to collect so many of these clips and identify the true vocalists. How have you been able to get the names of the dubbers and to get the original vocals by the actors?

[lostvocals6]

@hallemil

Thanks - read the note below the clip for the answer to your question.

[alexalliso]

i would much rather it be someone else singing it well then hear bad singing auto tuned

[lostvocals6]

@kamicokrolock

Because some of them really couldn't sing. Check out my clips of Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn on this channel and at lostvocals3.

[kamicokrolock]

@lostvocals6

I don't mind Gabel in that number at all. It's a cute number. I just think it's funny that studios dubbed over some actors that were fairly good singers but didn't dub mediocre singers. Why dub them at all?

[lostvocals6]

@kamicokrolock

"The Jolson Story" and "With a Song in My Heart" both heavily promoted the fact that the subject of the film was doing the dubbing.

I think Gable was charming in his number - as was Jimmy Stewart in "Easy to Love".

[kamicokrolock]

I new about Al Jolson for Larry Parks in "the Jolson Story". In their defense Parks was playing Al Jolson in that film, and Jolson had a very distinct voice.

Most of those others are mind boggling. As many of those dubbed actors had very nice voices.

Of course now I'm curious as to why they did NOT dub Clark Gables rendition of Putting on the Ritz in "Idiot's Delight".

[lostvocals6]

@WickedSexyActivist

Debbie was famously dubbed in two songs in SITR - in fact, you can hear her own voice in them at my other channel, lostvocals3. The producers of "Glee" give credit to The Beelzebubs, a longtime singing group from Tufts University. Do your research and you'll see that these are all correct.