I love Rosalind Russell. There will never be another Mama Rose for me. Same with her performance as Mame.

Good old Roz acted the shit out of this number!

@lostvocals8

3 жыл бұрын

I agree - I just wish her voice hadn't deteriorated! She was singing well just a few years earlier.

I don't think there's anyone who loves Ms. Russell more than I, but this and other numbers which I've heard make it painfully obvious why her voice wasn't used. All the same, thank you so much for this.

The gravel in her voice is sublime I am a huge fan, and I seldom enjoy musicals

I’m one of the few who is happy she was dubbed! Nearly every song in this musical is sung by rose. Maybe her voice is okay for one or two songs, but hearing her talk-sing an entire show would kill it for me. These famous hits need to be SUNG!

Thanks for this. I'm familiar with the film, but had never heard this. It's so raw and emotional and authentic. Ideally, the role gets a good singer, but I enjoyed this version very much. It makes me wish Ms.Kirk acted it as well as Roz.

0:19 Is such a powerful performance on Roz part.

My top favorite song from the whole musical

@lostvocals8

4 ай бұрын

But what about seeing Roz sing it for the first time ever?

I love Roz in this movie. I have watched it many times and it took time but I think she is amazing, even with her scratchy voice. She has the acting and emotions right.

@lostvocals8

3 жыл бұрын

But you didn’t hear her sing this song in the movie.

@paullayton4854

3 жыл бұрын

Pushy mother shoving her more talented offspring forward..Rosalind Russell's take on this was perfect...should have made the cut.

I can not believe that that in the movie wasn't Rosalind. I'm stunned. Why oh why do they do that. Her performance and passionate voice is superb.... I love this woman to death 😍😍😍😍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

@lostvocals8

3 жыл бұрын

Her acting is superb. Her singing is unfortunately unusable.

Singing aside, I think this scene especially (plus "Rose's Turn") shows why Rosalind won her 5th and final Golden Globe Award. BTW, Natalie was also nominated for "Gypsy." I have watched this scene so many times, I don't wanna hear it sung by ANYONE else!

Love Roz!!

I think she’s great and her voice fits the part 🎶

@OldMastyr3

Жыл бұрын

No, it does not. She can't sing a single bloody note. Is everyone deaf??

Rosalind Russells own voice is awesome.There's a desperate sob in the voice.She sounds like the grasping,ambitious stage mum who probably had not much talent in her hey day but is now forcing all her dreams of grandeur on her daughter.

@berrie23

3 жыл бұрын

Agree absolutely!

@Bend818

3 жыл бұрын

But that’s also how the dubbed voice sounds. Both are fantastic

@nstix2009xitsn

2 жыл бұрын

​@horrorflickguy You're being grossly unfair to the real Mama Rose, Rose Hovick. Gypsy Rose Lee was an ingrate, who (like her sister, June Havoc) owed everything to her mother. The problem is that the musical Gypsy was written during the era of “Momism.” “Momism” was a movement begun by essayist Philip Wylie in 1942, which promoted the hatred of mothers, and which had “legs.” In that context, attacking stage mothers was like shooting fish in a barrel. Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics to Gypsy, also hated his mother. And the show’s book was written by communist hack, Arthur Laurents, who piggybacked on Momism.

@ds2465

2 жыл бұрын

@@nstix2009xitsn Rose, is that you?

@marzipanshepherdess9190

2 жыл бұрын

Which is exactly what Rose Hovick was! She definitely had a very dark side to her; this is suggested in Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography "Gypsy" but is very starkly depicted in "Early Havoc", the autobiography of her sister June.

I love the sound of Rosalind Russell's own voice. More power and emotion. She is real!

@barbaramcelhiney5934

4 ай бұрын

Amen

This is the best one

Up there with the best !!!!

I watched this movie too early, I used to think this was a happy songs but it’s heartbreaking. Mamas pure desperate pleas to her ignored daughters…😢

This is great

Great, very emotional and when you’re emotional your voice may wobble and even hit a few bad notes.

@JohnnyGNV

Жыл бұрын

....uh....more than a "few" bad notes here....

luv it.... coz it's not great, it's like us

Does Rose's turn with her own voice exists? I really want to hear it, because Roz was amazing actress and i bet her emotions during "Rose's turn" are insane.

@lostvocals8

3 жыл бұрын

Roz' voice was used in the film for the first half of Rose's Turn. She never recorded the last half.

@wickedfan811

3 жыл бұрын

@@lostvocals8 thank you for an answer!

Sorry to be a contrarian, but... I think Lisa Kirk made corrections to this song that were essential. With lyrics so superb, perfect enunciation is a priority.

In a biography of Natalie Wood’s life it said that her mother had the strange hobby of looking at vacant apartments for rent and they were constantly moving.

I wish we'd gotten Rosalind Russell's voice. She gives such a powerful performance already- the vocal gravel only adds to it

If this film was made ten or twelve years earlier, Russell could of played Gypsy herself.She was the same height ,weight and build....They even looked alike.

The incomparable Rosalind Russel belting out the theme song to this great movie of years gone bye. I just remembered today's the 40th anniversary of the death of Natalie Wood DOB 7/20/1938 and Karl 'Mr. Streets of San Francisco Malden he's long gone too along with Rosalind Russel. They don't make movies like this and haven't for years. Most of the so called movies now are nothing but trash.

@lostvocals8

2 жыл бұрын

You know that her voice was not used in the film, right?

Grew up with the BM version but discovered this one through the gotta have a gimmick number

@kuklafranandollie

2 жыл бұрын

BM?

@laynemartin7914

2 жыл бұрын

@@kuklafranandollie bette midler

✌️🎭🎶👑

How did they make Natalie short ? Like a little girl ? Amazing

@JohnnyGNV

Жыл бұрын

Natalie Wood was about 5' 2" if that - she was very petite. In later scenes, of course, her hair is swept up and she wore heels but overall yes they did a great job with showing her 'aging' from a young girl to a grownup Gypsy Rose Lee in later shots.

@toddpickens8513

9 ай бұрын

Rosiland Russell was 5'8" and in heels towered over the 5'2" Natalie Wood.

Lisa s Kirk voice was better but Rosalind Russell showed her talent as an actress who sang in this song and shouldnt have been dubbed

She's acting. The studios wanted it belted.

@lostvocals8

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, she's acting powerfully but singing badly.

@jonahfalcon1970

11 ай бұрын

@@lostvocals8 I don't think so.

What a great actress and the emotions come through in her singing. I listened to the rendition in the movie- much better voice of course but I feel that the emotional content gets lost.

@lostvocals8

Жыл бұрын

So true - I only wish her voice was more sure!

geez,,,why they didnt get ethyl is criminal i hate when they get actors that cant sing to save their lives just cuz they are a big name

@steveOhh68

4 ай бұрын

It was dubbed : Rosalind Russell as Rose Hovick Lisa Kirk as Rose Hovick (singing voice; uncredited) wiki d it❤

Best one. The song loses all of its interest for me without the story Rosalind brings to it. When other people sing it you think, okay that's fun and catchy, but when she is doing it you want to cry while forcing a big smile, facing the darkness head on. It's a more intense experience.

@JohnnyGNV

Жыл бұрын

Well, acting-wise, I have to agree with you. It does contain more gut wrenching emotion than Lisa Kirk's overdubbing of it, or however it was ~ finally done .....I assume that they did their best to see how much of the score Roz could handle but Lisa Kirk was called in (I assume) and matched her very closely by singing through a vocal modifier of some sort. I mean really, you wouldn't know it was a dub job since it sounded pretty close to Roz's speaking voice.

Better than Bette Midler !!!

I prefer Ethel.

She not that bad but business men won't take a risk in Hollywood. That's show biz.

Dubbing made sense

Better with the other Singer added maybe on stage you could get away with it but on Film you need A big voice 😉

Oh boy. It's not good but it's too bad they couldn't have just dubbed a few of the worst notes. I think she might have gotten away with it. At least she was in character and had the emotion.

I love Rosalind Russell, but don't like her in this move. She doesn't have the voice to sing this. Warner Bros should have had Ethel Merman repeat her knockout performance she did on Broadway.

I may not be a cinema major or math whiz, but wouldn't hiring someone who could actually both sing and act save them money? *Sigh* Where's Ethel when you need her?

@lostvocals8

2 жыл бұрын

Roz' husband managed to get the rights for her, even though Jack Warner had promised it to Ethel multiple times.

Yikes 😬

Look...Roz Russell was fabulous but a singer she was NOT...her voice is awful..out of tune...horrid....she ruined the song and they knew it and dubbed it as they should have...had they just hired Merman to do the part, they would not have had to worry.

I love Roz but glad they went with Marnie.

@lostvocals8

3 жыл бұрын

Not Marni! There are hundreds of other dubbers. In this case, it was Lisa Kirk.

@crankenstein70

3 жыл бұрын

@@lostvocals8 Yep

That was just awful! Worst rendition to date