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Recordings

Me holding a recorder: Mmm my voice is awesome and I have the best voice ever~

Recorder: HaLlO, ME speak GOOODD~

Me: I see that my ears have lied and technology brings the harsh truth.

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Brad Kane, Mena Massoud, & Scott Weinger.

Brad Kane (Aladdin's singing voice)

Scott Weinger (Aladdin's speaking voice)

Mena Massoud (live action Aladdin)

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Military Accents

I’m fascinated with the way people talk, so it makes sense that I want to address this as it pertains to MASH… it’s always interesting when someone can pull off a great voice to enrich a character. The champion of this is Actual Voice Actor David Ogden Stiers, of course, who in real life spoke with an unassuming American accent, very unlike the orotund Boston Brahmin one he created for Winchester. (David hailed from Oregon by way of Illinois.) The only other put-on accent in the show, by my count, is that of Sgt. Rizzo done by G.W. Bailey, who was born in Texas and could navigate a Louisiana bayou drawl with ease. Wayne Rogers, from Alabama, suppresses his twang but it sometimes comes out, as actors’ real accents are wont to do when they emote hard. Wayne, like Trapper, had such a weird way of speaking that I’d warrant he learned it relatively late, reducing his natural accent on the advice of coaches and such.

Everyone else uses their actual voice to portray their character, but a few heighten or tweak it in a pleasing way. Gary Burghoff is from Connecticut but somehow possesses a north-Midwestern accent anyway as Radar, nasal, with flat vowels that sound great when he’s agitated. Bill Christopher didn’t have far to go to be Mulcahy: he took his God-given tenor and merely emphasized the God. Harry Morgan dials the folksiness up to 100 with sayings, and is careful to convey a certain antiquity, but Sherman Potter’s basic accent is not markedly different from his own (Michigan/Missouri). McLean Stevenson was even less of an effort, though Henry also had sayings that distorted his delivery the tiniest bit. And then there’s Larry Linville, who was from California but transformed his vocal delivery along with everything else in order to play Frank. If it’s possible to speak “uptight,” he had it down pat with his scolding, sniveling, and (my favorite) occasional high-pitched giggling.

Alan Alda is as natural as can be in his New York diction, which says so much. When Hawkeye talks, that might as well be Alan Alda talking—and I’d guess he liked it that way; so do we all. The same with golden boy Mike Farrell, earnest and thoughtful yet with that laid-back Hollywood ease. Loretta Swit is from New Jersey. Calisthenics is a good idea; I for one am very sawwft. I cheered! And Jamie Farr from Toledo, Klinger from Toledo, where’s the divide? I can’t tell. Can anyone? Is anyone meant to?

I’m not really going anywhere with these observations, I just wanted to point them out. I do think it’s noteworthy that there’s so much diversity in the cast’s voices—their literal voices, but also the range of degrees to which they use accents. It speaks to (haha, “speaks to”) different acting techniques, all valid, and mainly it’s cool to me that they all ended up on the same show.