Small World - Gypsy - Rosalind Russell 's own voice

The one unused song by Rosalind Russell that could have been used in "Gypsy," I think. She sounds quite sweet here, with only one or two bad notes.

This was also the hardest to synch up of the four clips I did, since she clearly was not singing to this track. I had to slow the film down at two points to make room for her pauses.

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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