So it turns out I have a surprising number of songs by actors on my computer. Specifically, actors who are not also widely or significantly known as singers—I recognize this is a subjective as well as fuzzy criterion, and I've obviously waived it a couple of times in this post, but on the whole I have tried to exclude parallel careers as musicians or steady work in musicals or operas, because otherwise I'll be here all evening. So no Theodore Bikel, no Marlene Dietrich, no David Hemmings; no Yul Brynner or Glynis Johns or Jerry Orbach; Angela Lansbury is right out. I glossed the prospective post to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch as "songs by people you didn't even know could sing, and some of them can't, but that's not the point here." Have a thoroughly random selection.
( And we'll strive to please you every day. )
We are off to the Brattle for the Tom Hanks double feature of A League of Their Own (1992) and That Thing You Do! (1996). At least the second of which involves singing, so I may return with more names. Anyone else want to volunteer favorites in the meantime?
spatch as "songs by people you didn't even know could sing, and some of them can't, but that's not the point here." Have a thoroughly random selection.( And we'll strive to please you every day. )
We are off to the Brattle for the Tom Hanks double feature of A League of Their Own (1992) and That Thing You Do! (1996). At least the second of which involves singing, so I may return with more names. Anyone else want to volunteer favorites in the meantime?
