Pat Friday: Ghost Vocalist

It's Friday, so what better day to celebrate Pat Friday, a singer you may have heard but never saw. Friday was a movie voiceover vocalist—the person who sang the songs after the actors mouthed the words.

Friday was the singing voice of Lynn baritone (above), who starred in two films made by Glenn Miller—Sun Valley Serenade (1941) and Orchestra Wives (1942). While baritone's eyes smolder as she mouths the words in both movies, it's Friday's voice you actually hear.

Here's baritone in Sun Valley Serenade (1941) singing I Know Why (And So Do You), with Friday's vocal...

 

Here's At Last, from Orchestra Wives, with baritone and Glenn Miller vocalist Bob Eberly, featuring Pat Friday singing for baritone and trumpeter Bobby Hackett playing for actor George Montgomery...

 

And here's baritone in Serenade in Blue from Orchestra Wives with Friday's vocal...

 

JazzWax notes: For more on Pat Friday, go here. For more on Lynn baritone, go here.