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Vic Damone

posted 19 years ago by johnd70978
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I just watched "Jumbo" on DVD and it seemed to me that Stephen Boyd's singing voice sounded a lot like Vic Damone. Whoever provided the vocalizing did an admirable job, though the voice sounded nothing like Mr. Boyd's speaking voice. I checked IMDb to see who actually did the dubbing but there was no information there. Did anyone else hear Vic Damone?

PS - I agree with the previous poster that John Astin played the hapless airplane pilot. Maybe MGM didn't credit him because the airplane hadn't been invented yet.

[–] f111151 17 years ago

I read on another site that lists vocal doublers for films, that a singer named James Joyce did Stephen Boyd's vocals.

[–] scribesmith65 17 years ago

Stephen Boyd's vocals in JUMBO were dubbed by a baritone named James Joyce.

[–] smurky 16 years ago

Oh, I disagree, I thought the singing voice sounded exactly like Boyd's speaking voice...but I knew it couldn't really be him, because if he could sing that well, he would have made more musicals and recordings. It wouldn't be fair, would it, for one man to have so much...to be the most gorgeous man in the world, PLUS have a great singing voice !

[–] mathmaniac 15 years ago

Oh, my... he was the most gorgeous man ever. And when I first saw this in a movie theatre, I was a preteen. Couldn't sleep without dreaming about him. Wonderful, wonderful.

[–] a-kor68 14 years ago

Actually, Stephen Boyd did have a very good singing voice: In "The Big Gamble" (1961), a film that sadly is not available on DVD, he sings a traditional Irish ballad, "Beautiful Eileen", and he's really great in it. Needless to say I agree with you about the "gorgeous" part...

[–] Jimat41 14 years ago

I believe it was a Broadway actor named Stephen Doughlas. He was in Damn Yankees.

[–] MammothPicturesReturns 10 years ago

His singing was dubbed by a singer named James Joyce.

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