Vocal flubs on cast recordings....- Page 4

[PitPro2004]

Posted: 3/9/06 at 5:57pm

Like someone said earlier, not exactly a vocal flub, but I have been told that one of the biggest cast album flubs, actually happened courtesy of a pit musician! On one of the earlier Gypsy soundtracks, you can hear a drumstick fall off a stand, hit the floor loudly and roll across it durring the overture! Not sure which album it is, but if anyone has all of em, and you have heard it, please feel free to give a report!

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/9/06 at 6:21pm

I have heard this reported before (it's not the movie soundtrack, it supposedly happens on the original Broadway cast album with Ethel Merman) If anyone can pinpoint where, I would like to hear it.

On the WEST SIDE STORY cast album there is an audible click just after the Scherzo on the "Somewhere Ballet" - just before the vocalist starts to sing "There's a place for us..."

These flubs were relatively minor and would often be swallowed by the RIAA roll-off and the noise of the vinyl (or shellac for the old 78 RPM records.) Now when re-mastered for CD, these become more apparent...but that's part of the charm of these albums. Like a theatrical performance they are "live" and anything can happen.

Also, in the early days of recording the performers were back a bit from the mic so they could project without taxing the systems. Now they are so closely mic'ed there is no space between their mouth and my ear. I prefer the open more spacious sound of the earlier recordings. They have a you-are-there-in-the-theatre feel to them. But with the open mic policy, there is more chance of outside noises creeping in.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 3/9/06 at 6:37pm

Dang, Sanda stole mine about Mandy coming in with Robert Westenberg during Lily's Eyes. It really bothers me. An overall flub would be the Once Upon A Mattress recording. There are so many rank notes in there...I'm pretty sure it's usually one woman who is always sticking out in the chords.

And the guy's lisp in Footloose bothers me to the point that I can no longer listen to him.

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:57pm

I actually found the part of the song "I Don't Need Anything But You" where Reid comes in early, it's when Andrea sings: "You used to need work to fill every hour," as Andrea starts to sing, you hear Reid coming in and stopping.

[astonishing1985]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 1:24am

"on Les Mis concert someone sings "uh huh" when they should have been singin Look Down on the prologue or something like that..."
ok, so it wasn't just me, lol. I've often thought if it was supposed to be that way but I guess not.

And also I've noticed the Scherzo thing, I does think there is something nice about these sort of things though, it makes it so real actually.

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 2:01am

what i noticed here is probably because of how jet-lagged my boyfriend and i were:

we were a long flight home and were trying to catch some z's while listening to some broadway. During aida's 'written in the stars' at the 'a lifetime of not knowing'line, it sounds like a slur/fart. 'of not' sounds like its going 'of-pfft-not'

well....we thought it was pretty damn funny. After a few playbacks we got over it :P

[oopsydaisy]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 11:10am

In the OBC of "The Life" Sam Harris cracks in the middle of his long sustained note at the end of "Use What you Got" It is a super long note, but I always figured someone would notice and have him just punch in that note. It is so easy to fix

Another on a recording of "Anytime" from Infinite joy-the songs of william finn, Norm Lewis has a vocal fry that caught my attention at the end on the sustained "There" while i was listening to it today. Granted it was a live recording, and he is an AMAZING singer, i feel bad when singers get captured forever on a recording with a mistake. I know that would always bug me!!!

OK...the sutton this is just irritating. I am such a fan, and it bugs me. but at least it makes her human :)

[jpbran]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 12:30pm

I notice a couple of flubs that are probably more technical than vocal. At one point in Aida CD (can't remember where), Pascal's voice REALLY messes up the mic or something. Briefly gets really muffled and feedback-y. (Not just my CD-- another friend noticed too.)

Also, on the Complete... Miss Saigon CD, a tuba or something messes up big time, blurting out an unexpected note. Can't quite remember where either (at work without my iPod). I'll post specifics if I remember later...

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 3/11/06 at 5:03pm

Not so much vocal flubs, but I'm convinced a cell phone rings near the end of "Cry For Me" on the Jersey Boys OBCR. And it always bugs me how Erica Piccininni sings a totally different way on the CD then she does in the show - on the CD, the singing is breathy and light, but it's more strong and loud in the show.

I listen to Jersey Boys maybe too much...

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 3/11/06 at 5:09pm

In the Frogs OBCR, Nathan Lane makes a bit of a flub. The lyric in the "I Love To Travel" reprise is supposed to go "Exploring shady glade and making merry with the wood nymphs". Nathan stumbles on his l's and r's, and he instead says "Exproring" instead of "Exploring."

[circusliz]

Posted: 3/11/06 at 9:48pm

At the end of "Hear My Song" in Songs for a New World, the three voices holding "fine" while the woman sings "A new world/ calls across the ocean" are not well blended. Someone is really off key (I'll have to go listen to figure out exactly who) and each individual's volume keeps changing. It could be that they were all supposed to crescendo, but if that's the case then their unison was way off.

[Radioactiveduck]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 12:14am

Idina screws up during "For Good" when she sings "It well may be..." VERY flat.

Mackenzi, I've heard that too.
Updated On: 3/12/06 at 12:14 AM

Posted: 3/12/06 at 2:30am

"And the guy's lisp in Footloose bothers me to the point that I can no longer listen to him. "

i can't take it seriously. he has a very important song in the show, and it's ruined. why was he even cast? and why, how, i, ahhh... it's absolutely ridiculous!

Posted: 3/12/06 at 2:34am

Don't know if anyone else mentioned it...Sam Harris at the end of Use What You Got, his long held not way up there - it sounds like it starts to unravel.

Posted: 3/12/06 at 4:40am

I think it's a personal tick of mine. I'm just so used to the Bernadette of say "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park..." that some of the stuff that may be character on "The Goodbe Girl" sounds just plain bad to me. It's mostly her interjection during "Richard Interred." Character or no character, there's no need to sound like that. At all. But I love Bernadette anyhow.

Also, has anyone noticed a Windex-smudgy kind of sound just after Kim begins singing during "The Movie in My Mind" on the complete symphonic recording of "Miss Saigon?"

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:55am

AIDA OBC... hated... HATED that Adam Pascal sings the line... "anonymous and gone to mow"... aaarrggh... oh well

Oooooh, so that's what he's saying. I always thought it was "and none of us have got to know, enchantment passing through."

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 7:30pm

Was this supposed to be misheard lyrics instead of vocal MISTAKES?
Sorry, just wanted to ask.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 7:53pm

Was this supposed to be misheard lyrics instead of vocal MISTAKES?
Sorry, just wanted to ask.

I was just adding to something, but thanks for bumping the thread up so you allowed more people to see my "off topic" response. :)

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 6/6/07 at 5:08pm

At the end of The Last Goodbye on the Spelling Bee OBC, you can hear Jesse mumble "Oh wait, that's me, how do you turn this off?" It cracks me up every time I hear it.

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 6/6/07 at 5:26pm

i've got a good one that may or may not have already been mentioned..

in the SPRING AWAKENING recording, in "the bitch of living" during the part that john gallagher sings "gettin outta bed" towards the end.. you can hear him let out a raspberry spit thing on the word bed.. so it sounds like "getting outta psssp-bed".. listen for it next time, it's really funny, haha. =)

[elvisitis1302]

Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:58pm

On "The Wild Party" Recording (LaChiusa) in the song "People Like Us," the lyric goes:
People like us,
We get BY through the day...

On the recording it is sung:
People like us,
We get through the day...

Missing the word "by" - a minor thing, but still counts

[Laurhearts SA]

Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:06pm

Wicked: In the song "Thank Goodness" Kristin sings "There's a kind of a sort of" and on the last "of" she sounds like a duck.

[bwaymizfit2]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 10:21am

Bumping an old thread, but I didn't see this one mentioned...

Austin Pendleton, "Fiddler on the Roof" OBC: the last note of Miracle of Miracles is very, VERY flat. He starts flat, and you keep hoping that he's at least going to scoop up to it....and then he doesn't

[bwayfan9]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:02am

listen to Daphne Very Closely when she sings "Oh What'd Ya Do With My Candle" light my candle in the OBCR for rent. listen to her very closely when she sings candle, she cracks a bit, it amuses me

[blondebaby589]

Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:20am

hahaha Kitzarina I thought no one noticed but our cast! One night during a sing through, our reverend attempted "Heaven Help Me" in full lisp mode. The director put an end to that very quickly.