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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2012, 11:11:59 PM »
I would love that, though obviously it might be a few months before I actually get to it. And I have had pretty good experiences with recommendation marathons. Here and here.

Those two were from before I found the forum. Can't wait to read them. :)

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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #41 on: January 26, 2012, 02:23:28 PM »
New Moon



Six movies in and the plot gets pretty farfetched for the Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy team. Contrived grievances to keep them apart are irksome, but what can you do? I like Opera (with subtitles :) ), so the singing style doesn’t bother me... much. Jeanette’s clipped words and trilled “r”s get to me after a while and I find myself liking Nelson’s voice more. This is one of my favorite Nelson songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjqfvZVReM

It looks suspiciously like this clip from Babes in Arms which came out a year earlier. Check out the torches.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLH7q3Fyrmk&feature=BFa&list=PL8DC1CACAE76A3096&lf=results_main

I wonder if the studio was called out for plagiarizing another film. Wait a minute. I need to check something…  Just as I suspected; they are both from MGM. Reusing props and choreography is their prerogative I guess--you can’t steal from yourself.

I enjoyed this enough and am familiar with their songs so I want to see all of their films eventually. Naughty Mariette is first solely because of this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_m7unArv8g

New Moon has similarities to Captain Blood, so if you don’t want to be sung to, I’d highly recommend that one. 

Next up: Silk Stockings
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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #42 on: January 26, 2012, 02:33:18 PM »
Jeanette’s clipped words and trilled “r”s get to me after a while

I hate the way she sings.  She's tolerable in One Hour With You, but stinks in everything else I've seen her in.

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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #43 on: January 26, 2012, 06:47:40 PM »
I can't stand Jeanette MacDonald.
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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #44 on: January 27, 2012, 10:11:24 AM »
I'd say ouch!, but I'm in agreement.


I hate the way she sings.  She's tolerable in One Hour With You, but stinks in everything else I've seen her in.

That's funny because I have a hard time listening to Maurice Chevalier sing. Martin, the respond thread got away from me, but I really enjoyed your Summer Stock review. It's #61 on my top 100. I just fast forward past "Heavenly Music" and pretend it doesn't exist. :)

Here's a general question. Who are your favorite singers in musicals?

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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #45 on: January 27, 2012, 10:15:58 AM »
Here's a general question. Who are your favorite singers in musicals?

Speaking of Summer Stock, I gotta say Garland and Kelly.  And Chevalier, too... not a great singer, but so much fun to watch.

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Re: Sandy Faces the Music
« Reply #46 on: January 27, 2012, 10:17:18 AM »
Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald are both great!

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« Reply #47 on: January 27, 2012, 11:45:47 AM »
I like Chevalier a lot in those early musicals.

Garland's my favorite musicals singer.  Sinatra's great.  Fred Astaire doesn't have a great voice, but I like his style.
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« Reply #48 on: January 27, 2012, 12:15:02 PM »
I was thinking Garland and Sinatra as well. They're hard to beat. Possibly my two favorite performances are:

Judy Garland "But Not for Me" from Girl Crazy. Look at her face at 1:00 and 1:56. Nobody feels/expresses music like her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03uSwM07_A

Frank Sinatra "I Fall in Love too Easily" from Anchors Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UesYWymYKBE

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« Reply #49 on: January 27, 2012, 12:24:58 PM »
I gotta say Bing Crosby still holds a place in my house as the master crooner. If you like your voices more manly than smooth, I love the power Howard Keel brings to his singing.

I also have an oddball favorite, James Cagney. Like Branagh with Shakespeare, he turns the musical cadences into everyday speech that rolls off the tongue in rat-a-tat fashion. There is no better delivery of...
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle do or die



For the women, Judy Garland has a lot of forgettable songs, but she also has the greatest of classics. For character singing, I immediately think of Gwen Verdon.

 

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