| re: 'Dubbing Through the Decades' in movie musicals & more: How many of these do you know? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:02 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Dubbing Through the Decades' in movie musicals & more: How many of these do you know? - TheOtherOne 06:09 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Thank you for this info. I'm going to save this post. Do you mean the LP titled simply Juanita Hall? I remember that LP well from the years (oh so long ago now) when I worked in a record store. I never bought a copy although I was intrigued by it. I found a couple of copies on sale on ebay, and the pages had scans of both the front cover and the back, with the liner notes. I wonder if it was reissued again later as I don't see comments there from Ken Darby. The notes on this issue don't make it necessarily sound like the versions there of "Happy Talk" and "Bali H'ai" were made for the film. They are referred to as "distincly non-Tonkinese versions . . . to remind you that Bloody Mary once was enrolled at Juilliard." (Which also, of course, hardly indicates that they were not recorded for the film.) The notes indicate that all the tracks were previously unissued, and it does seem that the LP was issued after her death. Searching on the Times site for a review of the recording did not bring up a review, but did bring up Richard Rodgers's tribute to her after she died. He also mentioned that she trained at Juilliard. He did not, of course, mention that he chose not to have her singing voice used in the South Pacific film. A google search brought up a list of new releases, among which it was listed, from the Billboard issue dated June 6, 1970. A Worldcat page for the recording lists the year of issue as 1969 but with a question mark, and the dates of the tracks as being from 1922-1949. It could be that the dates are just guessed at, or if it's correct that the last track is from 1949, I wonder if the "Happy Talk" and "Bali Ha'i" tracks could be from some unissued 45 she recorded in 1949, unless your issue of the LP makes it quite definite that the tracks are the ones she recorded for the film. The notes on the linked page seem to suggest that she never got to record tracks for the film. |
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