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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.
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▲** Completely averted with Brock in the 4Kids dub. Of course, [[Eric Stuart]] is a musician as well as a voice actor.
▲* In the English dub of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' and ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', Lacus Clyne is voiced by two different actresses when speaking normally and when singing - it's pretty obvious in SEED, but much less so in Destiny. In original Japanese, [[Rie Tanaka]] performs both, though.
** French dub simply… ''didn't dub'' the songs, so Lacus has Rie Tanaka's voice when she sings.
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{{quote|Excel: Why Kobayashi? Why Mikako? ''[the voice actors' names]''
Hyatt: I do so hate knockoffs.
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* 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.]
* Averted in the [[FUNimation]] dub of [[One Piece]], where the English voice actors sang the character song "Family" during a scene in Skypeia.
* 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.
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** That was because the vocal range of Troy was written for a tenor, and Zac, being a baritone, couldn't sing that high. The two sequels eventually changed Troy's vocal range to fit Zac's range better.
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** Nan Wynn in ''You Were Never Lovelier''. (Hayworth also conspicuously doesn't sing in the other movie musical pairing her with [[Fred Astaire]], ''You'll Never Get Rich''.)
** Martha Mears in ''Cover Girl''. (Mears also dubbed Veronica Lake's singing in several movies.)
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{{quote|Oh, that voice is so divine!
I'm sorry it isn't mine. }}
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** Charisse was usually dubbed in other MGM musicals if required to sing. She didn't sing in ''Singin' in the Rain'', but India Adams sang for her in ''[[The Band Wagon]]'' and Carole Richards was her singing voice in ''[[Brigadoon]]'' and ''Silk Stockings''. Eileen Wilson did Charisse's singing in ''Words and Music''.
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** Actually, for the most part, we do actually hear Debbie. It's only when "Kathy" dubs "Lina" that they use someone else's voice - Jean Hagen (Lina) for the speaking bits, and Betty Noyes for the songs "Would You" and "You Are My Lucky Star".
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** Are you sure it's dubbed? Sounds like Jim to me, and Baz Luhrman was determined to cast actors who could sing.
** At least the "Like a virgin"-scene. Baz Luhrman and Craig Pearce say so in the audio commentary. It's because they wanted a very big operatic sound there. Jim actually sang it during the shot, and they thought they were just going to enhance it. But then they found an opera singer who could mimic his voice very well, so he dubbed him.
*** The second soundtrack CD credit an Anthony Weigh along with Jim Broadbent on Zidler's two main songs, Like A Virgin and The Show Must Go On, and IMDB credits him as a voice double (I don't have a copy of the film ATM to check it's credits). So he's not quite an anonymous double, although I can't seem to find much more information in my rather lazy online searching.
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* ''[[Almost Famous]]'': Marti Frederiksen dubbed Jason Lee's vocals.
* Averted in the 1986 version of [[Little Shop of Horrors]]. Everyone does their own singing, with widely varying results (particularly note the duets between Audrey, played by Ellen Greene - who in additional to being a professional singer also played the role in the original off-Broadway production and in the West End - and Seymour, played by Rick Moranis.)
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* Susan Kiger didn't sing "Shine Your Love" in the '70s flick ''[[Angels Revenge]]''; the singing was actually dubbed by someone named Patty Foley.
* Except for Bobby Van and (bizarrely) Sally Kellerman, the entire cast of the disastrous 1974 musical version of ''[[Lost Horizon]]'' was dubbed.
* Averted in ''[[The Hunger Games (film)|The Hunger Games]]''; "Deep In The Meadow" (the lullaby Katniss sings to Prim
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▲* In ''[[The Partridge Family]]'', only David Cassidy and Shirley Jones actually sang. The others all lip synched to session singers.
▲* One ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch features John Cleese as an archaelogist who randomly bursts into song. Cleese by his own admission is a terrible singer (he did sing "Eric the Half a Bee," but very little else), so his singing parts in the sketch were dubbed in by Terry Jones.
** In his pre-Python TV and radio shows Cleese sang "Rhubarb Tart" and "The Ferret Song", which must be heard to be believed.
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** Averted with Buffy, whose songs were originally going to be dubbed (supposedly by [[Jewel]]), but Sarah Michelle Gellar decided she didn't want to be the only one not doing her own vocals.
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* In "The Bitter Suite," the first [[Musical Episode]] of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', Renee O'Connor and Hudson Leick (Gabrielle and Callisto) sang with the respective voices of Susan Wood and Michelle Nicastro; Miss O'Connor subverted this in the second one ("Lyre Lyre, Hearts On Fire"), as she ''did'' sing here - along with Miss Wood and Susan Calloway!
** Averted with Lucy Lawless (Xena) and Ted Raimi (Joxer) in both episodes, along with Kevin Smith (Ares) in the first one and Jay La Ga'ia (Draco) in the second.
* The early nineties tv movie ''Freeze Frame'' dubbed its male lead (''[[Kids Incorporated]]'' alum Ryan Lambert) in order to save money.
* In Jeff Wayne's [[Rock Opera]]
▲== Music ==
▲* In Jeff Wayne's [[Rock Opera]] adaptation of ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', Sir Richard Burton is the narrating voice of the Journalist, whereas Justin Hayward is the character's singing voice.
* Inverted by the [[Gorillaz]]: 2D was originally played by real-life singer Damon Albarn, but had a second voice actor, (Nelson de Freitas,) hired to record his speaking voice.
* Milli Vanilli was an extremely popular, award-winning rap/pop group in the late 80s and early 90s that returned a Grammy after it was revealed that the people getting all the credit for the music were just models dancing and lipsynching to uncredited vocalists. They were the original [[Trope Namer]] for [[Same Language Dub|the acting version]].
** They're just the most (in)famous example; several dance-oriented pop groups rely on attractive stand-ins lipsynching to others' voices.
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* The ''[[You'll Have Had Your Tea]]'' episode "Fame Idol", which hinges on Mrs Naughtie (played by Alison Steadman) having a beautiful singing voice (played by Jane Gilchrist). The series running on [[Rule of Funny]], there was inevitably one scene where Mrs Naughtie sang in her own voice, for no reason whatsoever.▼
▲* The ''You'll Have Had Your Tea'' episode "Fame Idol", which hinges on Mrs Naughtie (played by Alison Steadman) having a beautiful singing voice (played by Jane Gilchrist). The series running on [[Rule of Funny]], there was inevitably one scene where Mrs Naughtie sang in her own voice, for no reason whatsoever.
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* In ''[[Ape Escape|Ape Escape 3]]'', Pink Monkey is voiced by Debi Derryberry (speaking voice), and Anndi McAfee (singing voice).
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has Leliana burst into song. Not only does she sound absolutely nothing like her speech voice actress, for bonus points she also [[Uncanny Valley|looks like an utter freak of nature]] while doing so.
* While averted in the Japanese versions of the ''[[Ar tonelico]]'' series, the English versions fall squarely into this - because they use the same song, not even dubbed or covered.
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▲* Liz Callaway is easily the queen of singing animated princesses. In addition to her Disney credits listed below, she provided the singing voice for the title character of ''[[Anastasia]]'' (voiced by Meg Ryan) and Odette in ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' (voiced by Michelle Nicastro).
** Not only was the adult version of Anastasia given two voices, but so was the child version - for this one [[Lacey Chabert]] took over for Kirsten Dunst when it was time for the girl to sing.
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*** Bernadette Peters too.
*** And the "additional voices" is a who's who of Broadway, including J.K. Simmons and Andrea Martin.
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*** He was also the singing voice for Gregory in ''[[South Park]]: [[The Movie|Bigger, Longer, & Uncut]]'' who's speaking voice was Trey Parker.
* The Live action ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks]]'' has Theodore voiced by
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*** Averted in the Mexican Spanish dub (see below).
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** An early draft of ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' was originally going to have [[Thurl Ravenscroft|Thurl "Tony the Tiger" Ravenscroft]] as the singing voice of [[Big Bad|Shere Khan.]]
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* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' has the main character, Jack, with a speaking voice provided by Chris Sarandon and singing voice provided by composer [[Danny Elfman]]. With no Burton/Elfman involvement in ''Oogie's Revenge'', Chris Sarandon went on to sing all of Jack's songs in that game.
** [[Inverted Trope]] - when casting, Elfman was chosen to provide Jack's singing parts, and then Sarandon was cast because his speaking voice sounded close enough to Elfman's.
* In ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', Val Kilmer's singing voice as Moses was provided by Amick Byram, Danny Glover (Jethro) was replaced by Broadway veteran Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Sally Dworsky dubbed the singing role for Miriam (Sandra Bullock). And proving that being a Dame is no barrier to such things, [[Helen Mirren]] has Linda Dee Shayne step in as the Queen's singing voice. (Averted, however, by Michelle Pfeiffer, Martin Short, Steve Martin and Ralph Fiennes.)
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**** Let's not forget that [[Mandy Moore]] and Donna Murphy are professional singers.
** Disney wanted to avoid this when they made ''[[Oliver and Company]]'', so they cast [[Billy Joel]] as Dodger.
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** Rival Pizzazz was voiced by Patricia Albrecht when speaking, and Ellen Bernfeld (aka disco singer Menage) when singing.
*** Ellen Bernfeld also did backing vocals for The Holograms and The Misfits, and was the singing voice of Roxy in her only solo song. Roxy's speaking voice actress was Bobbie Block.
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*** The other two Stingers were also dubbed for singing. When speaking, Minx was Kath Soucie and Rapture was Ellen Gerstell. For singing, both of them were usually dubbed by Diva Grey, but for Rapture's two solo lines in the song "Destiny", she was dubbed by Vicki Sue Robinson, the disco singer of "Turn the Beat Around" fame!
** When Kimber and Stormer sang a duet, they were dubbed over by Florence Warner and Lani Grover respectively, though Cathianne Blore and Susan Blu perform their speaking lines. Interestingly enough, their singing voices don't match their speaking voices at all.
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** This was a [[Shout-Out]] to the fact that, originally, the film was going to be a musical with songs written by [[They Might Be Giants]]. As awesome as that could have been, it apparently [[Mood Whiplash|ruined the creepy tone of the movie]], so the idea was scrapped. "The Other Father Song" is the only remnant of the musical idea.
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** [[Mark Hamill]] and [[Paul Williams]] also sing for the stage Joker and Penguin but you can just barely make them out because they sing in unison.
{{quote|'''Batman:''' [[Ear Worm|They're superstitious cowardly lot/They plan and plot but always get caught!]]}}
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** It's funny that the singing voice for [[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]] and Scamp is Roger Bart, and Susan Egan the voice for Meg is the singing voice of Angel, Scamp's girlfriend.
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** When the main six perform "Green Tamborine" for the ending credits of the movie, the rest of the main six have different singing voices, with the sole exceptions of Vince (Ricky D`Shon Colins) and Spinelli (Pamela Segal). Interestingly enough, Gus (Courtland Mead) had his singing voice performed by Blake Ewing, the voice of Menlo, and Gretchen ([[Ashley Johnson]]) had hers by Andi McAffee, the voice of Ashley A.
** Any other time the characters sing (aside from Mikey), they keep their regular voices. On one occasion, Miss Grotke even gets her time to shine, and...it's...''adorable''
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* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Fanning the Flames", the song sung by [[Musical Assassin|Ember]] was by a woman named Robin Kimissel while her main actress is Tara Strong. Strangely, this is the only incident of that happening. Ember sings another song in another episode which as far as anyone knows, Tara Strong does. Robin Kimiseel only does one episode and is never heard from again.
** Kimissel was also the singing voice for [[ChalkZone|Penny Sanchez]]. Rudy and Snap kept their regular voices.
** Averted with pretty much every other Nicktoon.
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** And an In-World example from the same, during the "Summer Belongs to You" special, Phineas hires Clay Aiken for his voice for one musical number, and Ferb gets Chaka Khan. It is obviously [[Lampshaded]].
** Also [[Lampshaded]] with Linda, who admits that her "Lindana" career was done by lip-syncing. In real life Linda is voiced by Caroline Rhea while "Lindana" is performed by Olivia Olson, who also voices ([[Averted Trope|and sings for]]) [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Vanessa]].
* In [[The Rescuers Down Under]], the villain McLeach is voiced by George C. Scott but during the part where he sings his twisted version of "Home on the Range" his singing is done by Frank Welker.
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** Also, in "Welcome to the Chum Bucket", Mr. Krabs's singing voice is done by [[Dee Bradley Baker]] instead of [[Clancy Brown]].
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* All over the place in ''[[Quest for Camelot]]''; also a major case of [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Kayley is voiced by [[Glee|Teri Schuester]] (speaking) and Andrea Corr (singing); Garrett is voiced by [[The Princess Bride (film)|Westley]] (speaking) and Bryan White (singing); Kayley's mother is voiced by Jane Seymour (speaking) and [[Celine Dion]] (singing); King Arthur is voiced by [[Pierce Brosnan|James Bond]] (speaking) and [[Journey (band)|Steve Perry]] (singing). (And I think we already know that [[Pierce Brosnan]] [[Mamma Mia!|should never sing]].)
* Otto the gorilla from [[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]] is voiced by [[Tom Kenny]]; his singing voice for his [[Schoolhouse Rock]] parody song is done by Chris Hardwick.
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