# I just watched My Fair Lady for the first time and I didn't like it.

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**Created:** [March 7, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-my-fair-lady-for-the-first-time-and-i-didnt-like-it/683149 "2014-03-07T21:21:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-my-fair-lady-for-the-first-time-and-i-didnt-like-it/683149/61 "2014-03-09T21:49:35Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Linky?

Post #30.

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**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-my-fair-lady-for-the-first-time-and-i-didnt-like-it/683149/62 "2014-03-09T21:56:33Z")

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> [@Lamia](#):
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> The singing is actually recorded first in most cases even today, with the actors singing along with or lip syncing to the pre-recorded track during shooting. This isn’t so much because of the quality of on-set sound (although that is a factor) but because it’s hard on the performers to belt it out for take after take.

From _ **MAD Magazine’s** _ **“The Sound of Money”** :

\*How come I’m alone  
and there’s so much music?  
High up on a hill  
with no one in view?  
Just how can there be  
all this sound and music?  
A musical question I pose  
to you!

How can I run up this steep mountainside  
without ever losing a beat?  
You’d think that my lungs would give out up here  
over ten thousand feet!

To do all these things with a wide-mouthed grin really  
should not amaze—  
I’ve had lots of rest,  
'cause they filmed it on five different days!

I’m not singing now,  
I am pre-recorded!  
I’m just mouthing words  
I have sung before!  
And how does it feel  
to be singing nothing?  
It’s an awful bore!\*

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