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Elvis' Singing

posted 17 years ago by emailtom
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I've always wondered about his singing in the movies. Is he actually singing in the scences or his he lip syncing to the sound track? Or maybe, he is actually singing, but because of the acoustics, that singing is dubbed over with the soundtrack? Any ideas?

[–] lightcloud 17 years ago

Elvis or anyone for that matter in any singing scene from films are allways miming , they have to because of outside niose and of course mistakes .

[–] ncih 17 years ago

He could be really singing, but they would not use the sound because of the reasons sited by lightcloud.

[–] Eightythreeyearoldguy 13 years ago

Oh yeah, that explanation makes sense.

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[–] liscarkat (16522) 3 years ago

Elvis's

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[–] melissah1982 (883) 3 years ago

I think the poster means was he live singing or miming to a track of his own vocals. In this case he was miming his own vocals. I can only think of 2 movies where they actually sang live on the set as opposed to lip syncing and that was Les Misérables and Jersey Boys.