# Identifying singer: Big Blue Marble theme "Closer." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810 "2012-09-06T00:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/1 "2012-09-06T00:14:08Z")
I’ve done a search on Google and looked on wikipedia and IMDB and come up fruitless, but I know the SDMB usually never lets anyone down. When I was 12, I watched “Big Blue Marble” and fell in love with the voice and song “Closer” that was the later theme of the show. I also had a major crush on the girl who appeared to be singing it. In the opening sequence, she’s the girl in this clip at 1:16. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G1kkx2m-JSg/hqdefault.jpg "Big Blue Marble - intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kkx2m-JSg) Also, I am thinking she’s the first and last singer in the ending theme (regardless, I had a crush on her whether it’s the same girl in the opening or not): [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF22KI4dHjA) At the 0:12 mark in the second clip, the vocals are listed as being performed by “Whitney.” Does anyone know who this girl was? Did she go on to any other fame? Where was she from? What was her fate? Thanks in advanced. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/2 "2012-09-06T01:30:20Z")
I love that song, too. Brings back wistful memories of being eight years old, having an interest in kids’ lives in other parts of the world. I never noticed the babe until you just now pointed her out, though. Anyway…I have the LP at my mother’s house, and I’ll be visiting there in early October, so if her name is on there, I’ll let you know in a month. But, chances are another Doper can tell you sooner than that (or, you’ll track it down yourself, somewhere on the information superhighway). ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/3 "2012-09-06T03:54:29Z")
Thanks. I will wait the month or so. I really liked Big Blue Marble and I enjoyed the other version of the theme too that was a little older. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/4 "2012-09-06T04:00:26Z")
“See” you then! ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/5 "2012-09-06T14:26:01Z")
[This link](http://www.ad-music.com/info.asp?PerformanceID=4669&SongID=5779) identifies her as ‘Whitney Kershaw’. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/6 "2012-09-06T15:40:47Z")
[Biography Whitney Kershaw](http://www.peter-reynders.de/WY/kershaw.htm) Looks like an adult version of her to me. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/7 "2012-09-07T01:06:33Z")
After looking at those images, I’d say that it is her. Wow, the Dope is amazing. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/8 "2012-09-07T10:30:21Z")
Okay, way to go, fellas! ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-singer-big-blue-marble-theme-closer/633810/9 "2012-09-07T13:42:33Z")
Ooh, and interestingly, her dad is [Robert Weimer](http://www.filmreference.com/film/82/Robert-Wiemer.html) - director and executive producer of _Big Blue Marble_…