[78-L] Movie dubbing

[Taylor Bowie]

Schuyler/Skyler  had a long career as a singer and songwriter...he sang on 
many Hall Bluebirds,  sometimes in duets with Dolly Dawn.  He passed just a 
few years ago...there was a short piece about him on NPR at the time.

The Hall Bluebird is one of my faves of the band,  but is not one of Sonny's 
better vocal efforts.  He sounds way better on the Adrian Rollini Decca of 
You're A Sweetheart,  just for one example.


Taylor




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From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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I only have one recording by George Hall on Bluebird:it's called "Why Dream" 
and
featured the voice of
Sonny Schuyler(later Skylar),who,as I understand it,became a songwriter and 
had
a hit with "Gotta Be
This or That" which I have by Benny Goodman with a vocal by him.It was a two
sided opus.The only
other record I of Schuyler was a Vincent Lopez Bluebird of a thing called "A
Concert in The Park" which
also featured an unknown Betty Hutton.Schuyler's voice sounded almost like 
Boris
Karloff trying to sing.




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On 10/23/2010 1:44, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Some of the best music in any Shirley Temple musical is in Rebecca of
> Sunnybrook Farm; it's also a very entertaining movie with a great cast.
>
> Actress Phyllis Brooks plays second female lead to Gloria Stuart, and
> Phyllis and Jack Haley sing a great tune called "Alone With You."
>
> Her "singing " is so good in this number I'd long ago figured that it was
> dubbed by someone else, and the voice did sound familiar.
>
> Turns out that the singing voice is that of Loretta Lee, who made so many
> fine records with the George Hall Orch on Bluebird earlier in the 30s. I
> thought she'd quit show biz after that, so it's nice to have some of her
> singing on a film sound track.
>
> Anyone know if she did any other "ghost" singing for the movies?

You might find this interesting
http://www.barbaralea.com/Dubbers/dubberslist.html
I would give Marni Nixon the dubber award, though you can see there were
others, male and female, who did a lot of them.
Marni had a way of changing her voice to suit the actor like no one else.
I ran across a Loretta Lee guesting in Edgar Bergen show.

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