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Miss Piggy's voice in TMM
dpurves Member
I read in a trivia book that Johnny Mathis dubbed Miss Piggy's voice in TMM.  Is this true?  It sure sounds like it's just Miss Piggy's regular voice singing, so I was pretty surprised to hear this.  If he did, was her singing voice also dubbed in the other Muppet movies?
 
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dpurves said:
I read in a trivia book that Johnny Mathis dubbed Miss Piggy's voice in TMM.  Is this true?  It sure sounds like it's just Miss Piggy's regular voice singing, so I was pretty surprised to hear this.  If he did, was her singing voice also dubbed in the other Muppet movies?
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I have no idea, but I think I remember hearing something about Frank Oz being very uncomfortable doing the singing at first.
 
Maybe that was the original plan, but it certainly soundsl ike Frank to me.
 
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the original recording
according to the Ask Henson section at the old henson.com, the song Never Before, Never Again was recorded with Johnny Mathis singing the song, but after it was recorded, Jim Henson decided that it would be funnier to have Miss Piggy sing it (and personally, I think it would have been weird for the movie to have only one song sung by a celebrity who didn't appear on camera). Johnny Mathis also performed this song in The Muppets Go Hollywood.
I wonder if the original recording by Johnny Mathis will be included on the upcoming DVD.