It's not that Shirley Maclaine can't sing. She was spotted by a Hollywood agent (sent by Alfred Hitchcock no less) while filling in for Carol Haney in the musical The Pajama Game on Broadway. That resulted in Maclaine making her first film with Hitchcock. The rest is history. Or her story.
Shirley Maclaine does remind us now and then that she is a musical performer, primarily a dancer of comparable skill. Not known as a terrific songstress, her voice is thin yet distinctive. The closest she's ever come to recording in a contemporary "pop" fashion is here with "Where Am I Going?" from Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity
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