Edelweiss - Christopher Plummer 's own voice - The Sound of Music

TO WATCH CLIP, CLICK HERE: http://vimeo.com/4143597
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Christopher Plummer was dubbed in the released film, but here's his own vocal track, with Charmian Carr.

From his autobiography, "In Spite of Myself":

"To further shake me up, our first recording session was upon us. Daunting is not a strong enough word to describe it. Julie and I stood side by side in a small glassed-in cubicle facing two microphones. Surrounding our prison cage sat 75 musicians like hungry jackals waiting to pounce, led by their keeper, Irwin Kostal.

Warbling softly into a mike is far more difficult than singing full out in a theatre as I was later to discover. One is much more likely to catch and collect "frogs" in the throat, whereas projecting usually gets rid of them. I tried so hard not to look like a complete basket case. Julie, sensing my nerves, took hold of my hand and held it throughout the session. It must have taken her days to recover the use of it afterwards, I had squeezed it so hard.

No matter how diligently I'd slugged away at my lessons, I was still untrained as a singer. To stay on a long-sustained note was, for me, akin to a drunk trying to walk the straight white line, whereas you can bet the very first cry that Julie let forth as she emerged from her mother's womb was in perfect pitch! Listening to the playback, there was no disputing we were on separate planets. In the end, Robert Wise managed to hire someone to take care of my elongated passages, and the balance was somewhat restored."

Bill Lee was the "someone" who was hired, and he replaced all of Plummer's singing, not just the long notes.
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[elisa9994]

thank you very much.he sang it beautifully,there's tenderness and depth.Generally i don't like dubbing and i don't understand it at all in this case,even if Lee's version was beautiful too...could you try to reuploade it on yt?maybe they made a mistake..anyway thank you.

[lostvocals6]

@elisa9994

No mistake. I did re-upload it and they deleted my entire channel! Youtube doesn't block anything, BTW - the rights holders do.

[video198712]

I thought Christoper Plummer's real vocals were wonderfull, not bad at all.

[muscleboi4use]

Oh thank you for the link... how irritating of YouTube to block it!!

[LCT12345]

Thanks for linking. I thought his real voice was charming. Sometimes I wish they would just let people sing themselves. His untrained voice made it sweet, real, like a daddy should sound singing to his children. :)

[ThatsRealNifty]

I don't see why they had to dub him, that was actually a lot better than I expected it to be. I mean sure he doesn't have the strongest voice, but it works for the song.

[lostvocals6]

@video198712

Youtube doesn't block any videos. The copyright holders do the blocking.

[video198712]

@muscleboi4use I agree I don't know their reasoning for blocking it.