It rings like church bells in my head. Please, woman. For the love of god. I know you have a voice, but do you have to s
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gabbieispretty — 15 years ago(January 18, 2011 08:11 AM)
I agree with you Chester. Ethel has always seemed loud to me as though she is yelling for a cab or something. I know people say it's belting but to me it just sounds like shouting and yelling her songs rather than actual singing. Her voice has an unpleasant ring to it in my opinion.
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Harold_Robbins — 15 years ago(January 16, 2011 08:44 PM)
Her name was a guarantee that investors in a show would see their money back along with a handsome profit. In fact, her name was enough to get a show written and produced!
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filmmekker — 15 years ago(March 16, 2011 06:18 PM)
She's always been a love her or hate her performer. I personally love the sound of her voice but many don't and didn't even in her prime. She was more abrasive in the 70's when she was an old lady, which is how most people remember her and parody her in shows like Forbidden Broadway.
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HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(June 18, 2012 03:20 PM)
She was more abrasive in the 70's when she was an old lady, which is how most people remember her and parody her in shows like Forbidden Broadway.
Very true, the Merman most people remember today is the late 60's/70's Merman who was then sixty-plus and had a harsher tone in her vocals (I have more of a problem with the affected "ringing" in her delivery during this period with than her "yelling"). I've just seen her in some of her 50's tv things like MERMAN ON BROADWAY and ANYTHING GOES however and was stunned how terrific she was in middle-age though, easy to see why she was still a Broadway sensation into her fifties. Yes she was loud but there was an excitement in her performances and an emotional edge to her voice that really wasn't there as a senior citizen singer.