Editing Debbie Reynolds (section)

=== Music career and cabaret ===
Her recording of the song "Tammy" (1957; from ''[[Tammy and the Bachelor]]'') earned her a [[Music recording sales certification|gold record]].<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book|author=Murrells, Joseph|year=1978|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr|url-access=registration|edition=2nd|publisher=[[Barrie & Jenkins]]|location=London, UK|isbn=0-214-20512-6}}</ref> It was a number one single on the ''Billboard'' pop charts in [[List of Billboard number-one singles of 1957|1957]]. In the movie (the first of the [[Tammy (film series)|''Tammy'']] [[film series]]), she co-starred with [[Leslie Nielsen]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Reynolds/dp/B0039G65PQ/ ''Debbie'' (1959)], Vinyl record, Amazon.com records</ref>

Reynolds also scored two other top-25 ''Billboard'' hits with "A Very Special Love" (number 20 in January 1958) and "[[Am I That Easy to Forget]]" (number 25 in March 1960)—a pop-music version of a [[country music|country-music]] hit made famous by [[Carl Belew]] (in 1959), [[Skeeter Davis]] (in 1960), and several years later by singer [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7640003/debbie-reynolds-billboard-chart-history|magazine=Billboard|title=Debbie Reynolds' History on the Billboard Charts|first=Gary|last=Trust|date=December 28, 2016|access-date=December 28, 2016}}</ref>

She released ''The Best of Debbie Reynolds'' album in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Reynolds/dp/B003JBX3EW|title=Debbie|publisher=Amazon|date=May 24, 2010}}</ref>

[[File:6212-LasVegasStrip-RivieraHotelMarquee.jpg|thumb|left|Marquee listing Reynolds' world premiere at the [[Riviera (hotel and casino)|Riviera Hotel]], Las Vegas, December 1962]]
For 10 years, she headlined for about three months a year in Las Vegas's Riviera Hotel. She enjoyed live shows, though that type of performing "was extremely strenuous," she said in 1966:

<blockquote>With a performing schedule of two shows a night, seven nights a week, it's probably the toughest kind of show business, but in my opinion, the most rewarding. I like the feeling of being able to change stage bits and business when I want. You can't do that in motion pictures or TV.<ref>"Debbie Reynolds Still Unsinkable", ''Los Angeles Times'', December 17, 1966.</ref></blockquote>

As part of her nightclub act, Reynolds was noted for doing impressions of celebrities such as Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mae West, Barbra Streisand, Phyllis Diller, and Bette Davis. Her impersonation of Davis was inspired following their co-starring roles in the 1956 film, ''[[The Catered Affair]]''.<ref name=Chicago>"Debbie Reynolds Takes on Eva, Mae, Pearl, and 'The Kid'", ''Chicago Tribune'', March 19, 1972.</ref> Reynolds had started doing stage impersonations as a teenager; her impersonation of [[Betty Hutton]] was performed as a singing number during the Miss Burbank contest in 1948.<ref name=Chicago/>

Her 1992 holiday collaboration with [[Donald O'Connor]], ''Christmas with Donald and Debbie'', arranged and conducted by Angelo DiPippo, would be her final album release.<ref>{{cite book |title=Christmas with Donald and Debbie: Featuring Chrissy the Christmas Mouse |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/839430840 |via=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |oclc=839430840 |access-date=October 21, 2022}}</ref>

Reynolds was also a French horn player. Gene Kelly, reflecting on Reynolds's sudden fame, recalled, "There were times when Debbie was more interested in playing the French horn somewhere in the San Fernando Valley or attending a Girl Scout meeting....She didn't realize she was a movie star all of a sudden."<ref>"Mary Francis (Debbie) Reynolds (1932–2016)", ''The Horn Call'', February 2017, Volume XLVII, No. 2, p. 26.</ref>