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* In the dub of ''[[Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker]]'', May is voiced by [[Veronica Taylor]] as usual, but the singing of her original Japanese voice actor KAORI is kept.

** Completely averted with Brock in the 4Kids dub. Of course, [[Eric Stuart]] is a musician as well as a voice actor.

* Priss in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]] Tokyo 2040'' also had a different person doing her singing, although that wasn't the case in the original OVA.

** Averted in the English dub, where Christine Auten did both the speaking and the singing voices for Priss.

** [[Akira Ishida]]'s singing voice doesn't seem to be as bad as he thinks it is (it's not ''good'', but at least it's on key). Still, he refuses to sing if he has to do any image songs.

*** He ''did'' sing in the two collaborations between the ''[[Saiyuki]]'' and ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' casts, though. Apparently, that was too much [[Fan Service]] to pass up.

* Another anime where this happens is for Koyuki's singing in ''[[Beck]]''. It's painfully obvious, too. Funnily enough, the ''dub'' averts this, as [[Greg Ayres]] does his own singing.

* In yet another anime exception, the theme song from ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' is sung by Excel and Hyatt—but not their normal speaking voice actors. This being ''Excel Saga'', it is lampshaded in one episode where Excel and Hyatt meet their singing voice actors, ''in full Excel and Hyatt cosplay'', at a bowling alley:

** They did the opening because they had already made an album under the name ''Excel Girls'' wearing the said cosplay.

* Subverted in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' where the characters (and voice actresses) visit a karaoke parlor and sing nothing like they have for the openings/[[Image Song|imagesongs]], but rather sing more like how their characters would.

* Painfully obvious in the Swedish dub of Toei's ''Puss in Boots'', where the young princess was played by Marianne Wäyrynen and her singing was done by professionally trained opera singer Anette Stridh.

* Iwasawa and Yui in ''[[Angel Beats!]]!'' are both voiced by big name voice actors ([[Miyuki Sawashiro]] and [[Eri Kitamura]], respectively), but their singing voices are by marina and LiSA.

* In the ''[[Love Hina]]'' dub, during episode 11 and episode 18 when the characters sing, the show switches back to the Japanese vocal track. However, the song in the Spring Special is dubbed by the English [[VAs]].

* The intro songs to ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' are sung by the anime's voice cast—except for [[Hiroshi Kamiya]], the voice of Zetsubou-sensei himself, whose lines are sung by a (very good) sound-alike.

** [[Hiroshi Kamiya]] ''does'' sing one of the ''ending'' themes himself though. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhiHq54Vg58&feature=BFa&list=PL264D77032AF42804&index=79 Very nicely, actually.]

* When Viz Video attempted to create a North American version of the vocal group DoCo, which was made up of the five primary voice actresses from ''[[Ranma ½]]'', only two of their five dub actresses (Willow Johnson [Kasumi Tendo] and Cathy Weseluck [Shampoo]) could sing well enough to take part. Three [[Talent Double|other performers]] were brought in to fill out the group. Rose Hastreiter as female Ranma and Tanya Hancheroff as Akane Tendo sounded close enough to Venus Terzo and Myriam Sirois, respectively, to be mistaken for them, but Saffron Henderson (as Nabiki Tendo) sounded nothing like voice actress Angela Costain. This is most noticeable during Nabiki's parts in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onjsj6zyewg English version of "Red Shoe Sunday"].

 

** The singing voice for Deborah Kerr in two different movies - Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The King and I'' (1956), where her vocals were skilfully intertwined with Deborah's on some tracks; and Leo McCarey's ''An Affair to Remember'' a year later.

** The singing voice for [[Natalie Wood]] as Maria in ''[[West Side Story]]'' (1961) and also sang some parts of the score of Anita played by Rita Moreno, sharing the load with co-dubber Betty Wand and Moreno herself. In parts of the quintet setting of the song "Tonight", Nixon sings both Maria's and Anita's lines.

** The singing voice for Audrey Hepburn as Eliza in ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' (1964), for which Nixon gained much notoriety, as news-eager journalists ripped apart the customary veil of secrecy. Industry buzz has said this to have been the cause of Hepburn's failing even to get nominated for an Academy Award for the demanding role.

*** Interestingly, the DVD features the original footage of Hepburn singing, and while she's not as skilled as Nixon, she certainly doesn't embarrass herself. They probably could have gotten away with just letting her sing the part.

** Jo Ann Greer in ''[[Pal Joey]]'' (which also had Trudy Erwin as Kim Novak's singing voice).

* ''Thank Your Lucky Stars'', with much of the [[All-Star Cast]] consisting of dramatic actors [[Playing Against Type]], mostly averted this. The exceptions are Olivia de Havilland and a moment in the finale where [[Errol Flynn]] lip-synchs to a high tenor voice and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it:

* Averted in the movie version of ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', where the tone-deaf [[Marlon Brando]] was given singing voice by the miracle of sound editing. (It's ironic that he played a singing lead part, given that the musical's second male role, Nathan Detroit, was originally played by the tone-deaf Sam Levene and written to suit. In the movie, Nathan was played by ''[[Frank Sinatra]]''.)

** The same thing was done for Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie in the 1955 film version of ''[[Oklahoma!]]''.

 

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