On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Peter Taylor wrote:
Whenever the "speaking" of songs instead of singing them is the topic, I'm always reminded of Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins in the London stage production of My Fair Lady. He had a wonderful speaking voice, but you get the definite impression he couldn't sing a note.
Indeed he could not. Having him speak the lyrics in rhythm was a desperate kludge that turned out to be perfect for the character. Each of the songs does in fact have a clear melody that you can hear in the orchestra; the combination of this w. Harrison's spoken delivery results in a combined effect very close to what one would experience if he had actually been singing.
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