This reminds me of the hilarious "debate" about whether Simon Oakland in West Side Story, on his first appearance, in the midst of breaking up the fight, uttered a rather nasty curse word. Now, he didn't, but half the people in the debate swore he did and would die on that hill. The other half...
"and if he brought it up to her by saying that Tab says" See that word IF? You weren't there, I wasn't there, see Will Krupp's post, which mirrors mine. People hear what they want to hear. Logic would tell you that no one called him "Fosse" - everyone called him Bobby. Your "sources" are your...
Just finished watching this. I found most of the transfer great. The night scenes and Two Lost Souls are TOO dark - don't know why. But most of it is aces - the opticals are soft, of course, but everything else is fine - not as good as Pajama Game but better than it's ever looked on home video...
I can pretty much assure you that nothing was sung "live" on the set and then used in the film - it was all lip sync to something. When you're lip syncing you are, of course, singing along but in those days that was never used.
Might have been recorded prior to the strike. There is no other way for it to have been done other than if the orchestra tracks were done in advance to a click and sent back. Then the strike is meaningless and that's probably what happened.
Nothing to do with acapella - they would have either recorded to the orchestra tracks back in Hollywood or to a piano guide track that the orchestra would then have recorded to - one or the other.