Gypsy - Rosalind Russell 's own voice - Everything's Coming Up Roses

This song makes you wish she could sing. She gives the song so much more intensity than Lisa Kirk (who dubbed her in the released film), but her vocal prowess is just not there.

From her autobiography, "Life Is A Banquet." ___________________________________

At first I was only to act the part; Rose's singing was dubbed by a professional with a big trained voice. When I heard it, I got sick. "It isn't me," I said. "I'm bad, but I can't stand to hear that. Everybody knows I don't sing operatically, it throws the balance off." Warner Brothers agreed and rescored the picture, and I sang my own part. People still say that I didn't, but that's Roz, and nobody else, as Rose on the soundtrack of Gypsy. ___________________________________

Roz, we love you, but if that's you in the film, then who's that singing in these clips? Ethel?

From TCM:

Though she had starred in the stage musical "Wonderful Town" ten years earlier, Russell's voice didn't have the power required for the score. After listening to her recording of the numbers, even Russell had to agree that she would need to be dubbed, though she would deny this, too, in her memoirs. Russell's voice was used only for the patter portions of the numbers. For the real singing, Broadway belter Lisa Kirk, who had starred in the original stage production of "Kiss Me, Kate," modulated her voice to a near perfect match for Russell's.

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