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

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.

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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.

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

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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...

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."

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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

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.

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."

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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. :)

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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. =)

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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.

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

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