Are All The Actors/Actresses Actually Singing......
.......or are some of them overdubbed by others ???
SAVE FERRIS
William Daniels, Howard Da Silva and Ken Howard were DEFINITELY singing: They came straight from the Broadway Cast. John Cullum was also a trained singer, so he might also have been singing too.
a bit OT, but relevant: Many years later, when William Daniels was starring in the TV show ST. ELSEWHERE, his character attends a Medical Convention. It is in the middle of a humid, miserable East Coast summer, and be lifts an eyebrow, singing a single line from 1776!
"It's Hotter than H*LL, In PHILADELPHIA!!!"
I was hooked from the first word, and the first note. (g)
"I do hope he won't upset Henry.."
> singing a single line from 1776!
He's with with his wife - both show wife and real-life wife - in Philadelphia when he sings the line. Then he turned to her and said something to the effect, "Now you can't say I never sang for you."
Daniels also played John Adams in a mini-series about the Revolution that came out in the 1970s - I don't recall the title. No singing though.
-Wm
And he also Played John Quincy Adams in the Adams Chronicles.
In the kingdom of the blind, you're the village idiot.
Actually, Mr. Daniels played John Adams in "The Adams Chronicles", and J.Quincy was played by David Birney
shareI beg to differ with you...
George Grizzard played John Adams in The Adams Chronicles.
David Birney played the young John Quincey Adams, and William Daniels played John Q Adams when he was older.
How sad, that you were not born in my time, nor I, in yours.
Thanks, I misremembered. Maybe it's time for a rerun of that series!
shareDaniels also played John Adams in a mini-series about the Revolution that came out in the 1970s - I don't recall the title. No singing though.
He played Cousin Sam Adams in "The Bastard" the first volume of the "Kent Family Chronicles" series and in its sequel "The Rebels" he returned to the part of John Adams, right down to the exact same costume he'd worn in "1776"! share
John Cullum was doing his own singing. He's a broadway veteran, was in the broadway production of 1776, and won a Tony for best actor in a musical for Shenandoah.
Others in the movie who were in the broadway cast are listed on the IMDb trivia:
The original Broadway production of the musical "1776" opened at the 46th Street Theater on March 16, 1969 and ran for 1217 performances. William Daniels (portraying John Adams (MA)), Howard Da Silva (portraying Dr. Benjamin Franklin (PA)), Ken Howard (portraying Thomas Jefferson (VA)), Roy Poole (portraying Stephen Hopkins (RI)), Virginia Vestoff (portraying Abigail Adams), David Ford (portraying Congressional President John Hancock (MA)), Ron Holgate (portraying Richard Henry Lee (VA)), William Duell (portraying Andrew McNair, Congressional Custodian),Ralston Hill (portraying Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson), Jonathan Moore (portraying Dr. Lyman Hall (GA)) and Charles Rule (portraying Joseph Hewes (NC)) all recreated their roles in the movie.
As you can see, the movie didn't need performers to be dubbed.
What's interesting is if you get the "1776" CD the recordings are from the Era of the Broadway show.
-either William Daniels' voice improved during his time as John Adams or he wasn't feeling well the day they recorded the cast album.
His singing in the movie is much stronger.