Obviously Ginny Tyler's forte was her speaking voice, not her singing one. She admits that herself in her work-in-progress autobiography, on which I am helping somewhat with the editing. I present a short excerpt on that topic here:
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Music was all around me and I loved it, yet for me to sing with others was a recipe for disaster. Acting, however, came a bit more naturally. Hansel and Gretel was a first grade school play. Memorizing my lines as Gretel was easy, but I also went to the trouble to learn all of Hansel's lines. Good thing too, because Hansel forgot his speeches and Gretel was able to cue and assist him. Gretel could do that, I thought, as I had a little brother myself and and spoke for him many times. The teacher told Mother, "She's a natural!" (which was difficult to realize, at age six). "A natural what?" my mother asked. (She probably figured the teacher meant I was a natural big sister, for little brother Donny and I were always busy with adventures.)
As for my aforementioned singing, in the second grade our teacher said, ?Now class, we are going to sing a new song. Uh, Virginia -- you sing very softly, almost whisper -- the entire sound is very important. It?s a blend of sound -- uh, just mouth the words!? Little did I realize that it was my first lesson in ?lip-sync,? which became a wonderful career in Hollywood and motion pictures.
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And that probably explains why Ginny stuck to narration and character voices for her Disney records, and the singing was left up to people such as Teri York, Marni Nixon, and Robie Lester, whose voices could all knock the roof right off Sunset Sound Recorders.
