Billy Boyd (Pippin) sings a haunting lament in “Return of the King” quite effectively.
No, really.
Re: John Cullum:
There was an episode of ‘Northern Exposure’ where the astronaut (Maurice) was reminiscing about going to space, and how the song he chose was “On a clear day you can see forever”. The recording they played was actually sung by John Cullum (which the producers didn’t know until John pointed it out to them).
Swoonalicious Milla Jovovich (5th element), is also quite good, she released an album in the '90s that was a folksy Sarah McL / Jewel type of music.
I have none to add – just that whoever did the theme song to the TV series “Walker, Texas Ranger” (I think it was Chuck Norris, but I’m not sure) should NEVER be allowed near a microphone again. I’ve never heard of using an obviously bad singer for a theme song before this.
Oh, how could I forget, Barney Miller! Sorry, Hal Linden, who played Barney Miller. I was a kid when my parents and I went to see Man of La Mancha and I was really surprised to see Barney Miller in the lead. (Really good too.)
Oddly enough, I was thinking not an hour ago about how realistic, romantic and believable his chemistry was with Cynthia Geary (Shelley from NORTHERN EXPOSURE, 35 years his junior in real life and about 45 years on the show). Oy, how I miss that show- even a bad reunion would be better than no reunion at all.
So as not to be a complete hijack, I saw Tyne Daly perform in GYPSY some years ago and she was excellent. Of the stage and film versions I’ve seen, her’s was the best Mama Rose- at once lovable and hate-able. (I loved Rosalind Russell but I thought she was a bit too refined for the role.)
Also, my uncle managed an NCO club on an American military base in England during the 1950s. One of the acts featured on a talent night was a “local singer and actor” named “Dickie Dawson”, who was none other than a very young Family Feud host Richard Dawson. Has anybody ever heard him sing?
Elijah Wood. Saw him on SNL this week and nearly fell on the floor. Granted, he was dressed up as Boy George but…wow…what a voice…sing to me, 'Lijah!
Yeah, he’s getting a lot of work in the UK in his post-Buffy career, and is currently doing a pirate double at the Savoy: Captain Hook in Peter Pan (in which I’m not sure whether he sings) and The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (in which he most definitely does). The latter is on my “must-see if I get an income soon” list.
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Jeremy Brett best know in later life as Sherlock Holmes in the wonderful BBC series.
'bout fell off the floor when I watched the special edition of My Fair Lady on DVD. That was the one where they remastered everything. He did the naration at the begining. The reason he did is that he played Freddy Einsford Hill in the film. :eek:
Nobody has mentioned Jason Alexander? The man won a Tony for Jerome Robbin’s Broadway.
Robert Guillaumne (Benson) and Garrett Morris (SNL) are both trained singers.
Wompat, Schneider and Spinner have all done Broadway.
Wopat actually starred opposite Bernadette Peters in the recent revival of Annie, Get Your Gun. I have an mp3 of his and Peters’ Anything You Can Do. He’s good!
Clint Eastwood has a song with Merle Haggard called “Bar Room Buddies.”
His singing was dubbed by Bill “Don’t Call Me” Shirley
Lee Marvin isn’t actually that bad; the problem is that he sings about an octave below the threshold of human hearing, so all you get is a strange rumbling sensation in your gut. But at least he’s in tune.
Eastwood also sang (and sang passably well) in Honkytonk Man. Still, I’m not planning to rush out and buy his Greatest Hits album.
How about Jackie Chan? Believe it or not, he began his show business career in the Chinese opera where he learned to sing and dance.
“Rumor has it that John Travolta – y’know, Vinnie Barbarino – can sing somewhat. Maybe he should be cast in a musical.”
Unless I’m mistaken, I recall Travolta releasing an album in the mid-1970s.
In addition to Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin (Orbach’s current partner on Law & Order) is a Broadway vet and has a surprisingly mellow singing voice.
I’ve heard rumors that Holly Marie Combs, when Charmed ends, wants to do Broadway, and has a classical trained stage voice. I have nothing in particular to verify this, however.
Tisha Campbell-Lawrence, who plays the wife on ABC’s My Wife and Kids and was Martin’s wife on Martin has a glorious voice. She was one of the doo-wop girls in the film version of Little Shop of Horrors.
Which brings us to Steve Martin, well-known for the singing side of his comedy, and other SNL alumni. Ana Gasteyer sang constantly on SNL, and toured with the Lilith Fair as her hippy singer alter-ego character whose name eludes me at the moment. Mya Rudolph of the current cast is also a very strong singer but comes by it genetically – her mother was the late R&B singer Minnie Ripperton. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer have proven their chops on numerous occasions, as has former SNL and Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus who played a singer on her NBC sitcom Watching Ellie (which might return once more in the spring).
Other sitcom stars with more than passable voices: all three men from Frasier, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney. Bonnie Franklin, who played the mother on One Day at a Time. Sherman Hemsley, from The Jeffersons & Amen. Many of his co-stars in the latter but especially Clifton Davis were talented gospel singers.
Christa Miller-Lawrence, formerly of The Drew Carey Show and currently on Scrubs is a trained singer, and her Scrubs co-star Donald Faison (Dr. Turk) got into show business as a singing and dancing kid. Jean Smart who played Charlene on Designing Women has a lovely voice and has done Broadway though she’s reticent to do heavy singing roles. Her DW costar, Dixie Carter, sang occasionally on the show and career-wise now focuses on music rather than acting.
I’d think of others, but I’m spent. 
He has also played the lead in Anything Goes-I have the CD version with him and Eileen Rodgers. He’s damn good.
Dare I say, he’s “the Top?”?
Someone mentioned Kelsey Grammer earlier in the thread. I would like to point out that he’s been singing a loooong time. He sang the closing theme on Frasier, “Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs,” which I always thought was kinduva nifty little jazzy/bluesy ditty…