Gigi: What time tomorrow will we get there? Can I watch you play roulette? May I stay up late for supper? Is it awfully awfully upper? Mamita: Gigi! You'll drive us wild! Stop! You silly child! Gigi: Is everybody celebrated full of sin and dissipated? Is it hot enough to blister? Will I be your little sister? Mamita: Gigi! You are absurd! Now not another word! Gigi! Gaston: Let her gush and jabber Let her be enthused I cannot remember when I have been more amused Mamita: Stop it! Gigi: The night they invented champagne It's plain as it can be They thought of you and me The night they invented champagne They absolutely knew that all we'd want to do Is fly to the sky on champagne And shout to everyone in sight That since the world began no woman or a man has ever been as happy as we are tonight! Gaston: The night they invented champagne (pop) G & G: It's plain as it can be They thought of you and me The night they invented champagne They absolutely knew that all we'd want to do Is fly to the sky on champagne And shout to everyone in sight (pop) That since the world began no woman or a man has ever been as happy as we are tonight! (pop)
Thank you for posting. Strong voice or not, this is my favorite musical number from Gigi. It just makes me happy😁Sometimes when I’m cooking I will find myself humming it!!😂
I like her real voice better too. I thought is that her voice when watching the movie tonight. This way is much better. Really charming. Thanks for doing it.
Ian Hicks Kinescopes were only for live television broadcasts. Many shows on television in the 50s, such as :The Honeymooners" and "I Love Lucy", were filmed - and they look great.
Leslie herself is entirely musical; her pipes aren't much, but of course the personality is spot on. Delightful. I also enjoy clips of her performing "Liaisons" in "A Little Night Music".
You've done it again ! it is terrific to hear her original voice . By the time I got here the link was removed to hear the original speed . This speed seems apropos to the effect of champagne on Leslie Caron's character ,kind of quick . I would also have liked to hear the rehearsal piano of Andre Previn. It is a fascinating idea of overdubbing the entire orchestra after the fact ,looking from behind stage at the production of a major motion picture. Entertaining ,once again, the exposed voice of the young ,beautiful woman.
Why the people still believe that a film has to be exactly like a Musical? I like Both. Leslie and Vanessa. Anyway... should reclaim the principal if you dont like. :)
@chevaliervaillant Actually, the sync was easy since Leslie filmed this number to her own recording. Betty Wand later replaced her voice (after the initial talking section). The tough part was adding the MGM orchestra - all that's been released is Leslie's vocal/piano track. Fortunately, I was able to strip out Betty Wand's voice from the film's soundtrack and place the orchestra under Leslie's track. Sweet!
I loved this, yes delightful, movie. Hmmm... I've been in a classic movie watching binge I'll see if I can find it on YT and it to the list. Thanks, Broadway Classixs for posting.
What's up with these comments about her competing with the other singers' voices-- as though Louis Jourdan and Hermione Gingold were such great singers!
kenrfc I love this number. It always reminds me of the first time I drank champaigne when I was 12 (and got drunk for the first time). I felt exactly like Gigi did. Still, Caron's voice is a bit thin. Maybe its a good thing it was replaced. I felt the same thing hearing the original tracks of Audrey Hepburn singing in "My Fair Lady". I mean she was good, but not quite good enough.
This clip is all Leslie and the verse is from the soundtrack, since it matched the piano-only recording I used for the rest of it. Look under "more info" to see how these tracks were recorded. P.S. I gave Ms. Caron a copy of this on DVD last week! =)
I hate these movie dubbings. You dont need a great singer for this song and Leslie was good. The same happened with Matt Mattox in Seven brides for Seven brothers. They used Betty Wanr and Bill Lee voices in.the movies when they should have used the original actors voices. It was such a ridicule thing that they dubbed great singers like Patrícia Morison and Ann Blyth because their voices were so good for these songs. Great singers with their tecnique could sing the way it was necesary for the songs and Warner producers forgot that Ann Blyth sang in a very popular way in.their movie Mildred Pierce. A dubbing is only necesary when they cast great dancers that didnt sing. Cyd Charise was dubbed in all her movies but I hears her singing in a Gene Kelly tv special and she was good and could have sung some of the musicals she did.In others like Brigadoon she sholdnt have been cast because it was a singers not a dancers movie. Kathryn Grayson should have made the movie.not Charise.
blackwingy PS: That's fantastic you were able to give her your cuts! I admire and envy your experience, especially your superb (and difficult) editing. Such things have always fascinated me-you should have your own documentary on the dubs of the grat musicals and their original tracks.
These are really super - thank you ! You do a great job of syncing these up, and are fixing some of the bad decisions of producers ! I saw Ms. Caron on stage in "A Little Night Music" last month - she was amazing !!!
I am afraid but the dubbing was a right choice. Leslie's voice is weak when compared with those of the two others in this clip. I know she had a beautiful voice in her 20s; it simply did not attract the audience back when they filmed Gigi in the 50s.
The French singers had a little more vibrato then the English speaking singers. So the words might not have been as clear. But this is the best part, Audrey Hepburn starred in the original play about Colette on Boradway. And she wrote the story of Gigi: Gigi (1951) is a popular play, written by Anita Loos. It is based on Colette's 1945 novel of the same name, and was produced on Broadway, where it starred Audrey Hepburn in the title role. So yes she could have done a great job! I think the height might have been a problem, as she went from school girl to adult. But then Sophia Loren played opposite Alan Ladd, and they dug a ditch for her to walk in, so she could be closer to his height.
She is already either happy or hyper or both to the point where she seems "drunk" on silliness *before* she gets into the champagne. Then the champagne...just adds to her already-existing excitement. Teenage girls. They can pretend to get drunk...on life. 😉
The others might be happy, she's hyper. But happy and hyper mixed, in a cute way. And it's not the champagne, it's her. She just uses the champagne to heighten the excitement even more.
@chevaliervaillant Thanks - be sure and subscribe to my other two channels for more Lost Vocals: lostvocals3 and lostvocals4 Some new clips are coming soon!
blackwingy Is Leslie's lead-in to the sung lyric (the "may I stay up late for supper" etc)her own voice or Wand's? I know the original track with what's absolutely Caron's voice is different than the final dub, but I almost can't believe that Wand was *that* great a mimic as the redone spoken-sung(more spoken/shouted than sung) intro imho sounds exactly like Leslie Caron-just a different take! I know with YOUR ear you'll know. Thanks.
This version looks like it's from a different angle than the one in the film. They're on the other side of the room and Gigi ends up on the left rather than the right. Is this like a whole different take of the number?
Ms Caron held all the notes well, obviously she could pull this song off if she got some singing lessons. A shame that her singing was not used, it's probably the only flaw about this near- perfect musical
Sorry. Bad reading comprehension evidently. I hadn't heard this since I was a little kid in the 50's, when my mother used to listen to it while she was ironing. Anyway, the other day I heard the name Gigi and I couldn't think of a single song from that show besides "Thank Heaven,etc." So then here I see "Champagne" and go, "Oh, yeah." But listening to it I thought I remembered it sounding a lot better;) The producers did the right thing for SURE I'd say. The other shows my mom listened to a lot were South Pacific and (my favorite as a 6 year old, and my favorite still) Oklahoma! I watched the movie OK! not too long ago, and it's still good. The train station dance number for Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City is as close as it gets to psychedelic in 1955!
