Rogers: Sound of Music Medley 

Anthony Ausitn the US has nothing like this. I'm quite jealous!

And Mary Poppins!

Two american films with songs by American writers...

It’s about Austria

Just think: if Benedict Arnold had gotten his way, the songs to Sound of Music and Mary Poppins might actually have been written by Brits…

Slutty dress. She is trashing the Sound of Music shame on her

A pity she ruined this beautiful song with a heavy operatic tone and an annoying goat vibrato. They should chose someone who can sing well instead of someone barking it out.

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Julie Andrews was exceptional talented with crystal clear diction, but unfortunately she lost her singing voice… sad.

I was hoping to hear that, too...

Me also!

it's what microphones and chest voice are for. This isn't an opera.

It's just a different technique. Just as pop singers might find it hard to switch to opera at the snap of the fingers, classically trained singers might not know how to sing using pop technique. Btw Julie Andrews doesn't use chest voice on high notes, either. In fact, her technique is very classical.

@@ohmusicsweetmusic well the producers have decided, its got to be an opera singer.

Just fantastic. Far far more listenable that Katherine Jenkins any day. What a gift frim God she has

She's amplified. She's just a bad singer.

Her parents are from Sri Lanka, she was born in Australia

Yeah, which means she is Sri Lankan. She's not Australian or British is any sense of the word.

@@sn0wt1ger Why don't you ask her yourself?

@@sn0wt1ger if she was born and raised in Australia, she’s Australian. She can be both Sri Lankan and Australian

@@silentsmurfRaised in Australia but biologically she is Sri-Lankan. Why is this hard for you to process?

+Elmo Joachim She's Australian-American

+Leo Szeto Both Australians and Americans are identities and not roots.. God knows what their roots are.. She is indeed Sri Lankan..

+Elmo Joachim She is a beautiful singer but she is rushing the songs and it makes the performance sound a bit weird. Julie's version gives you goosebumps!

Born in Melbourne Australia and now living in Glyndebourne in Sussex, England

+Tabris Fru Lar She IS Maria hahahaha

+Tabris Fru Lar Well performance in movie or theatre and gala performances are different. But Dame Julie will always be the best not only because of her beautiful voice but for her beautiful aura! I always fell happy just seeing her still!

***** Many people say it's her voice that kept her going all those years but she is an amazing actress AND also she was an incredible dancer but although we all know she was beyond talented a lot of her other talents were overshadowed by her beautiful voice.

I totally get it, and i don't say she's not good... because she IS AMAZING,,, it's just that i truly believe Julie is the best Maria there's ever been and ever was.

Tabris Fru Lar You hit the nail right on the head hahaha.

Yes, l know what you mean this singer can't be compared with Julie Andrews. Completely different type of voice. In fact in some ways better.

@@MrLesliegreen An opera singer with their goat vibrato can ruin any song and it's exactly what she's doing here. She's just a bad singer.

yeah compare her to Gaga instead

there's a Mary Poppins one too.

yeah, you have to really "live" with a song for awhile to make it natural. Julie did that with every song she sang. The world is dimmer without her voice.

Not only that to agree with the person before me, and I know this was two years ago but. These songs are incredibly high, they are in your head voice (if you knew anything about singing). They're up there in the register you have to be a Lock a solid concerto soprano to sing these songs. Most of the people who try are not concerto Sopranos, Julie was and could sing up in that hire register. So she found it very easy to sing and didn't have to rush through it. You heard the video do you know why she had so much vibrato? Because with a lot of vibrato it's easier to sing those higher notes, when there is air on the vocal cords that's why she's rushing and that's why it sounds so shaky.

yeah you're right, i like my other comment better: Good Lord! What in the name of a right breast about to become a nipple was she thinking?? You can almost feel the gasp of the audience. The theme song to the "Sound of Music" isn't the song in which to show some skin. It shows, along with the style in which she is singing, that she has not one clue about the piece, who sings it or why. Such a poor choice. These songs just aren't hers to sing.

ohmusicsweetmusic it's not an opinion it's factually correct. Singers who can't hit the notes properly use more air to get through the notes to sing faster that's factually correct. And she doesn't have any business singing the songs, they will forever belong to Julie Andrews. You have to have a voice like Julie Andrews which is one in a million to sing these songs, BUT what I said wasn't an opinion I was factually correct.

So true. Too much vibrato.

Superb analogy!

Bullshit!

A lot of folks are really enjoying this. Some should relax and enjoy the event.

ok i perfer julie !😏

Glyndebourne in Sussex, England

its the delicateness of Andrews' voice. This woman is too operatic and forceful, compared to what we have come to know and love from Andrews

What is your source for Marni Nixon dubbing any of Julie Andrews songs? Julie recorded all her tracks for The Sound of Music. Marni dubbed all of Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady.

@@TheCarnivalguy Marni Nixon was the great unsung hero for a lot of the musicals back in the day. They wasted a lot of people's talent putting her behind someone instead of just putting her up front from the start. A lot of the people she dubbed could actually sing fairly well. Audrey Hepburn for one actually had a good singing voice. From what I understand, Hepburn actually did work with a vocal coach before My Fair Lady. And she did, as far as I know, record for the soundtrack. But she did ended up getting dubbed in the end

@@fluellenlucena4745 You bet. Marni had an extraordinary voice. She also lent her incredible talent to Deborah Kerr, dubbing her singing voice in The King And I. In response to OP’s comment: Julie Andrews was a child prodigy. In her prime (Sound Of Music, Mary Poppins, and My Fair Lady on Broadway) Julie’s coloratura was quite capable of flights into the higher register with ease. She needed no other singer to dub her high notes. Julie Andrew played Eliza Doolittle on Broadway for three years, starting when she was 20.