Edelweiss Christopher Plummers own voice Sound of Music 1965

I uploaded this over ten years ago, but it was removed by YouTube. Someone stole it and put it back up, so I ve reuploaded my original clip with Chris singing this song himself. Charmian Carr joins him while Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, and Richard Haydn watch. Chris was entirely dubbed by Bill Lee in the released film, but here for the first time ever is his own voice, which a private collector shared with me. It has never been commercially released in its full length. From his autobiography, In Spite of Myself : To further shake me up, our first recording session was upon us. Daunting is not a strong enough word to describe it. Julie and I stood side by side in a small glassedin cubicle facing two microphones. Surrounding our prison cage sat 75 musicians like hungry jackals waiting to pounce, led by their keeper, Irwin Kostal. Warbling softly into a mike is far more difficult than singing full out in a theatre as I was later to discover. One is much more likely to