The Question of Dubbing

Several musical films use actors that don’t sing. What happens currently is that for their singing parts they are dubbed by real singers. Many of these situations are represented in SHS.

Being SHS a site about music, the only thing that matters is sound and who provides it through singing. If that sound on the screen seems to come out of someone else’s lips is of no relevance.

I’m bringing up this subject because SHS considers the one that doesn’t sing as the performer (dubbed by the real singer) when I think that from the point of view of what matters to SHS it should be the real singer (dubbing the mute actor).

An exemple: The Things I Will Not Miss

Now performer is Liv Ullmann [dubbed by Diana Lee] and Bobby Van.

I defend that in SHS it should be Diana Lee [dubbing Liv Ullman] and Bobby Van.

It’s what we have when we HEAR the SOUND.

There's a lot of history about this. See, e.g.,

Dubbed performances

Rules are made to be contested and eventually changed.

In this particular case, I defend that for a music site the performing is the singing, not the acting of pretending to be singing. SHS has a clear point that the input comes from the recordings on disc. You cannot defend that the performer is the one that you see in a movie, but that you don't listen in a record. In a Soundtrack LP or CD only the singer performs, the actor is just not there. It's dificult to believe that SHS shows as performers actors that never recorded a note.

I’m bringing up this subject because SHS considers the one that doesn’t sing as the performer (dubbed by the real singer) when I think that from the point of view of what matters to SHS it should be the real singer (dubbing the mute actor).

This is not entirely correct. It's bóth:

Sally Kellerman, Andra Willis, Olivia Hussey