Janet Waldo died in 2016, so she lived more than a quarter-century after the movie came out. It was George O'Hanlon, Mel Blanc, and Daws Butler who died a few months before the movie came out (Butler died before he could start work on the movie).
I think the original plan was to have Waldo do Judy's speaking voice and Tiffany do her singing voice, but I seen to remember reading that Tiffany said if she couldn't do Judy's speaking voice, she wouldn't do her singing voice either. At the time, Tiffany's record company was owned by the same company that owned Universal Pictures, and Tiffany's then-recently-released second album and its singles hadn't done nearly as well as her first album and its singles. It looks like Universal execs were so desperate to revive Tiffany's flagging career that they pressured Joe Barbera into doing something he did not want to do.
I also seem to remember that Tiffany initially wanted to sing country music, not pop, but record producer George Tobin told her there wasn't any money in country music. What if he had told that to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, teenage Taylor Swift, etc?
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