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| re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 12:44 pm EDT 04/04/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:43 pm EDT 04/04/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals - AlanScott 11:32 pm EDT 04/03/21 | |
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| I was just curious. In all the discussions I have had with Intrada, Varese, and the people on the FSM message board, no one has ever mentioned that Clayton sang "Coming Home" live on the set. You are actually the first person I know that has brought up that detail. That's why I asked the question. I love Clayton's vocals on the Carousel and Show Boat Broadway cast albums. She even did a bit of singing on the Lassie TV series. Her rendition of "Coming Home" makes me cry whenever I watch that film. |
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| re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:12 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals - BroadwayTonyJ 12:43 pm EDT 04/04/21 | |
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| Years ago, a friend who had watched it was convinced that she had done it live. He then showed me the sequence, and it did seem like ehe did at least some of it live. I don't remember it all well enough now. I guess that if the camera then moves to a dialogue scene with Clayton just heard in the background, that part probably was not live. Clayton had a very touching vulnerable quality. Ah, so I guess you've already done searches on the FSM boards about those other movies. |
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| re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 06:03 pm EDT 04/07/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals - AlanScott 12:12 am EDT 04/06/21 | |
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| The soundtrack of The Snake Pit was released twice on CD -- in 2000 by German label Tsunami and in 2010 by Varese Sarabande. Varese had access to the original 20th Century Fox master tapes. The source for the German CD was not disclosed, but they had claimed that it contained the complete score. While both recordings had the instrumental underscore to the scene featuring "Going Home", Clayton's vocal was missing. The other controversy was the fact that the German CD had 19 tracks (versus 16 on the Varese) and ran about 9 minutes longer than the American CD. There definitely was a lot of discussion on the FSM message board. A few posters (including me) spoke to reps at Varese, but were simply told that Clayton's vocal was not on the master tapes. Neither I nor any other poster thought to ask Varese if Clayton had sung live in the film. When the Captains Courageous soundtrack was released in 2017, Intrada's CD featured the entire score but only the instrumental version of "Oh, What a Terrible Man" and "Yea Ho, Little Fish". I asked the guy who produced the CD about the vocals, but again was told they weren't on the tapes. The FSM CD of the Random Harvest soundtrack (which did include Garson's vocal) was produced by the guy who did Captains. There was discussion of both CDs on FSM, but the issue of singing live versus recording in a studio was never raised. If I had known at the time that there were two different ways of recording songs in non-musical films, I would have asked the producer a question about it. I didn't mean to put you on the spot in my earlier post. When I saw you mention that Clayton had sung live in The Snake Pit, I just thought you might have some sort of insider knowledge about whether singing live in a non-musical film might be difficult to preserve for a soundtrack recording. |
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| re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:02 am EDT 04/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady -- Question about Rex Harrison's Vocals - BroadwayTonyJ 06:03 pm EDT 04/07/21 | |
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| I didn't feel put on the spot so don't worry about that. I wish I did have that knowledge. But it sounds like it might well make sense for those kinds of releases, done decades after a film was released and using the master tapes. | |
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