Talk:Howard Keel

Incorrect information
I am certain that Howard Keel was not in the film, Paint Your Wagon. Harve Presnell was the actor/singer who played that role and sang, "They Call the Wind Mariah" in the film. Howard Keel, may have played the part on the stage. I don't have any information on that.

WebNexus (talk) 00:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Lunch
"One of his teachers, Miss Rosa Burke, noticed one day that he was not eating his lunch"

Should this be "had no lunch to eat"? It reads as if he had a lunch but didn't eat it. Paul Magnussen (talk) 16:10, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I noticed that anomaly, too. So I changed it. 121.44.19.209 (talk) 19:59, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Why be unhappy as a basso cantante?
I can't see why Keel would be unhappy when he found out his voice was more of a high bass than a baritone? Lower is manlier. I sure would be happy to get that same news, being a baritone myself and constantly trying to sing lower. Gigogag (talk) 00:38, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Possibly because he wanted to develop a voice exactly like his idol Tibbett. 121.44.19.209 (talk) 20:05, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Lower is not necessarily manlier. There are plenty of manly tenors.  (Incidentally, I am a baritone.)  Kostaki mou (talk) 15:00, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Bass-baritone
I do not know where the basso cantante assignation comes from, but two newspaper sources call him bass-baritone: The 1950 article also states that he rehearsed in bass and sang baritone for picture recordings. 71.234.215.133 (talk) 17:37, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hopper, Hedda (May 28, 1950). "Natural Bass Howard Keel Has 'Impact' On And Off The Screen" The Miami News, page 8-B
 * Oliver, Myrna (November 08, 2004) Obituaries: "Howard Keel, 85; Musical Star Later Joined Cast of 'Dallas'" Los Angeles Times (online archived)

[Removed incorrect entry. Didn't look closely enough. Sorry.] Kostaki mou (talk) 15:04, 25 July 2020 (UTC)