Alice Faye - Coincidence Or...

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 11:24pm

I've got some of her recordings and I was wondering if it's a coincidence or if she sometimes intentionally tried to sound like Marlene Dietrich.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/18/08 at 11:09pm

Well shoot.
I thought this thread might bring MasterLcZ back.

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/18/08 at 11:11pm

It should have.

Posted: 1/18/08 at 11:21pm

Little Miss Alice Faye!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 12:15am

Miss Alice Faye sings a slightly incomprehensible "Mame."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBVehSA-kBQ

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 12:19am

With the help of handsome John Payne and the Inkspots, she elevates a little ditty called "Where You Are" to almost-art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG6M5vLqufI

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 12:25am

Ah, here it is: My all-time favorite Alice Faye song: "No Love, Nothing," from the wartime Busby Berkeley/Carmen Miranda/Benny Goodman musical "The Gang's All Here."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq2yBJeqoAE

Judy Garland recorded this song during WW2.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 12:27am

I love the Judy version.

Alice sounds very much like Marlene when she sings "Roses in December".

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 12:30am

Of course I love Judy's version better. But Alice Faye is one of the rare actresses who connected with audiences on a deep emotional level--without seeing to be be emotionally troubled herself.

A ridiculous generalization, I admit, but kind of true. At any rate, I have loved Alice Faye since I was about 13 or 14...which is a loooooong time ago!

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 12:57am

I love that clip because I love most of the music that was so special during World War II. That song reminded me of my favorite Andrews Sisters song from this period - "I Can Dream, Can't I?". Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a video clip of them singing it, but I did find one of a second favorite - "Apple Blossom Time".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKSI6uJ2O4

(forgive me for the slight threadjack Glebby)

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 9:39am

Forgive you?
I love The Andrews Sisters.
They fit right in!

[nmartin]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:30am

All for the sum
of a quarter
life is peachy.
You can become
Alice Faye
or Don Ameche.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 12:37pm

I've got this book.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 10:03am

I love her best in Alexander's Ragtime Band, and I don't think she sounds like Dietrich at all.

Maybe on certain material, but not "in general."

Dietrich had a more unique voice, but Faye had a better voice.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:21pm

I don't think she normally does either but listen to "Roses in December" and then tell me what you think.