Christopher Plummer dubbed Edelweiss
Description: Captain von Trapp's "Edelweiss" isn't Christopher Plummer's voice. It's Bill Lee, a studio singer the producers brought in after filming.
Plummer recorded every song himself. Most of it was replaced, though you can still hear a few moments of his own voice, like the lead-in to "Edelweiss." He wasn't a fan of the film at first. He called it "The Sound of Mucus," "because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey," and admitted he was "dead drunk during the music festival sequence," the scene where he sings "Edelweiss" a second time.
He came around. As Julie Andrews told The Irish Times at the film's 50th anniversary screening: "He very quickly realised that it was so well crafted and so well done. In fact, he's been wonderful about it for many years."
In 2023, his original recordings were finally released on the Super Deluxe Edition of the soundtrack. Here is the voice we almost never heard.
And if you love a ghost singing story, watch my reel on Marni Nixon.
(Fun fact: Marni Nixon is in The Sound of Music too! She plays Sister Sophia, her first time on screen. Director Robert Wise said audiences could finally see the woman whose voice they knew so well.) Close description
Plummer recorded every song himself. Most of it was replaced, though you can still hear a few moments of his own voice, like the lead-in to "Edelweiss." He wasn't a fan of the film at first. He called it "The Sound of Mucus," "because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey," and admitted he was "dead drunk during the music festival sequence," the scene where he sings "Edelweiss" a second time.
He came around. As Julie Andrews told The Irish Times at the film's 50th anniversary screening: "He very quickly realised that it was so well crafted and so well done. In fact, he's been wonderful about it for many years."
In 2023, his original recordings were finally released on the Super Deluxe Edition of the soundtrack. Here is the voice we almost never heard.
And if you love a ghost singing story, watch my reel on Marni Nixon.
(Fun fact: Marni Nixon is in The Sound of Music too! She plays Sister Sophia, her first time on screen. Director Robert Wise said audiences could finally see the woman whose voice they knew so well.) Close description