Alice (Linda Lavin's) singing

[*ROGER*]

I haven't watched Alice in decades until recently. I got the DVDs a few days ago, and I now remember that Alice (Linda's) singing was pretty good. I like the theme song a lot and I like when she sorta, almost scats during the closing credits.

[mstewart]

Originally Posted by *ROGER*

I haven't watched Alice in decades until recently. I got the DVDs a few days ago, and I now remember that Alice (Linda's) singing was pretty good. I like the theme song a lot and I like when she sorta, almost scats during the closing credits.

A lot of people did not like her singing. I thought Linda was good when she got to song. I did not like the episode when she sung with Martha Rate Do You Ya Think I'm Sexy.

[rcbrad]

I like her singing. My favorite version of theme song that she sung was season 1, then followed by season 4. I love how she ends the first season closing credits with her la la la, no no, bah bah. etc.

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by mstewart

A lot of people did not like her singing. I thought Linda was good when she got to song. I did not like the episode when she sung with Martha Rate Do You Ya Think I'm Sexy.

Yea that was probably the worse episode. lol

Linda was a good singer though. The theme song was one of the best of the 70's.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by rcbrad

I like her singing. My favorite version of theme song that she sung was season 1, then followed by season 4. I love how she ends the first season closing credits with her la la la, no no, bah bah. etc.

I thought her singing was pretty good too. I also liked the season one theme and her la la, bah bah closing credits.
I also liked when she sang Zing Went the Strings of My Heart for Jerry Reed in Mel's store room.

[Rewound50]

I thought she sounded like a amateur Helen Reddy wannabe. It was okay but had a kind of lounge singer quality to it. Not bad, but nothing note worthy either. If you watch subsequent season intros, she changes up the song every year and tries to put more personality to it, which does more to underscore her lounge act tendency. I don't think she would survive round one of America's got talent.

[Polexia]

I've never been a fan of having a character sing just because the actor can. That's great if you can sing but when you do it as a character (or multiple characters in your career) it dilutes the acting and becomes more like a vanity thing. Like you're a show off who can't keep it together and act. Like on Gimme a Break, for another example. And then there would be weird things happening in the character's world because the actor wants to sing, like there just so happens to be a variety act in town and EVERYONE is sick so you just have to take over. Stuff like that.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by Polexia

I've never been a fan of having a character sing just because the actor can. That's great if you can sing but when you do it as a character (or multiple characters in your career) it dilutes the acting and becomes more like a vanity thing. Like you're a show off who can't keep it together and act. Like on Gimme a Break, for another example. And then there would be weird things happening in the character's world because the actor wants to sing, like there just so happens to be a variety act in town and EVERYONE is sick so you just have to take over. Stuff like that.

Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) could sing and he sang in tons of episodes for I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy was one of the best shows ever.

[Polexia]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) could sing and he sang in tons of episodes for I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy was one of the best shows ever.

That's one of my favorite shows ever. But even his singing got on my nerves after a while. Some episodes it's too much singing. Some songs were neat, like one of my faves, Cuban Pete. But you have to strike a delicate balance. The bandleader thing worked because Lucy was desperate to be in show business and it allowed her to do a lot of great things having her foot in the door as it were. But then sometimes I ask myself just why all her friends also seem to want to be in show business, too, like Fred and Ethel (of course they were vaudevillians, of course they were!)

There were soo many musical acts on that show.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Polexia

That's one of my favorite shows ever. But even his singing got on my nerves after a while. Some episodes it's too much singing. Some songs were neat, like one of my faves, Cuban Pete. But you have to strike a delicate balance. The bandleader thing worked because Lucy was desperate to be in show business and it allowed her to do a lot of great things having her foot in the door as it were. But then sometimes I ask myself just why all her friends also seem to want to be in show business, too, like Fred and Ethel (of course they were vaudevillians, of course they were!)

There were soo many musical acts on that show.

I love the show, but I do agree about the too much singing. I do find myself sometimes skipping over the eps I know are going to be centered around it.

[sm95fan]

Originally Posted by Polexia

I've never been a fan of having a character sing just because the actor can. That's great if you can sing but when you do it as a character (or multiple characters in your career) it dilutes the acting and becomes more like a vanity thing. Like you're a show off who can't keep it together and act. Like on Gimme a Break, for another example. And then there would be weird things happening in the character's world because the actor wants to sing, like there just so happens to be a variety act in town and EVERYONE is sick so you just have to take over. Stuff like that.

I agree, a little singing sprinkled in is okay but I think Alice overdid it.

[weldonballou]

By the time she had that episode in 82' with Joel Grey trying to bring Broadway to Phoenix I was like "OKAY she's gone TOO FAR with this s**t!"