I was watching DUCK DODGERS last night, and i caught something....
The fact that Tom Jones and The Flaming Lips are doing the theme song.
Now, as Jones has a good sence of humor, i imagin he was laughing his ass off doing it. Good for him!
According to Mel Brooks, Frankie Lane was not aware, of what he was singin', when he did the title song for BLAZING SADDLES.
I don't have to even mention THE GREEN SLIME , do i?
Sooooo....
What examples of a lusty, sometimes overwrought singing performance, comes to mind when you think B-movies? Heck, i'll allow A pics.
And how long did you laugh or plotz when your ears stopped ringing?
All that Joan Baez stuff in Silent Running comes to mind. The movie is about a guy slowly going insane, with his zany little robot sidekicks (Huey, Dewey and the late Luie), and the trees man, it's all about the trees. And then Joan kicks in and it's like...AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Wings Hauser singing the theme song to "Vice Squad." Ol' Wings gets into the vocals, but I cannot help but snicker whenever I hear it (or think of it).
Ah, yes...Joan B. That would drive anyone to Insanity.
The "Theres got to be a morning after " chick from POSIDON ADVENTURE.
Sure made me wanna roll over in a large body of water.
I have to go for the big theme song from "Flesh Gordon 2" and also the main song in "The NeverEnding Story 3." Wow, but those are both impressive.
How about Peter Fonda singing country music in the obscure 1970s action flick "Outlaw Blues." I actually bought the 33 1/3 RPM soundtrack record album!
Hey, did Tom Jones do THUNDERBALL? That sure counts....
Mr Hockstatter wrote:
> And then Joan kicks in and it's
> like...AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Yeah, baby! 70s dystopian sci-fi doesn't get much better than this!
Coleman Francis's epic "Night Train to Mundo Fine" (called "Red Zone Cube" for the MST3K version), featuring the title track sung by John Carradine "Night Train to Mundo Fine". It makes me blush every time I hear it.
Diablo44 wrote:
> It makes me blush every time I hear it.
Ok, what about Carry Fisher´s performance at the end of the "Star Wars Holiday Special" - when she´s singing about the Wookie´s Lifeday (urm, what the hell is that - christmas?!).One and a half minute of painful awkwardness.
Shirley Bassey and anyone trying to copy her style. Worst offender would be who ever sings that "He Loves Me Song" at the begining of Opperation Kid Brother . I believe it was Tom Servo who said it best, "That guy is never gonna live up to that song."
Best parody of Bassey has to be Werid Al Yankovick's theme to Spy Hard . I love the climax of it where he sings, "SSSPPPPYYYYY HHHAAARRRRDD. THIS MOVIE IS SSSSSPPPPPYYYY HHHHAAAARRRRDDDD. YYOOOOOUUURRRR WAAAATTTTCHING SSSSPPPYYYY HHHHAAAARRRDDDD. THIS IS THE THEEEEMMMMEEE TTTTOOOO SSSSPPPPYYYY HHHHAAAAARRRRDDDDD. IT'S CCCCCCAAAAAALLLLLLLEEEDDDDD SSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPYYYYYY HHHHHHHAAAAAAARRRRRRRRDDDDDDDD." It's sounds like the climax of the theme from Goldfinger .
A case where the overwrought vocals are done on purpose is at the end of the movie Orgazmo. It's called "Now You're A Man" by D.V.D.A (the band name makes sense if you watch the movie), and it's probably the funniest part of the movie for me.
Ozzey : ya forgot the "Blamm" at the end, when Weird Al's head explodes! I loved when he glances at his watch while holding that note...yee hee hee!...
Oh, lord....
The chick from WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS!
'THE WOOOOORDS, GET STUCK IN MY THROAT!...THE WOOOOORDS, GET .." I hope the monster chokes on her when he picks her up...but does he eat her? Noooooooo! He lets here live to sing another day!
Die, you useless green creep! Die!
Oh man, I was trying to remember the words to that song, but my mind suppressed the painful memory. Even as a kid, I wanted that Gargantua to eat her. Justice would have been served.
Makes you wonder what the writers were expecting. Probably that we'd fear for her, and be relieved. How little they knew. Then again, these are the people who put the musical number in there in the first place.
I doubt they would have anticipated the possibility that we would be rooting for the monster after the musical number, and be disappointed. But what if they did forsee that the monster might unintentionally win our favour by eating that annoying woman, that we might, indeed, forgive all his other people eating out of sheer gratitude? So, they corrected the situation by making him tease us, picking her up and then being thwarted in his attempt to eat her, and made us hate him all the more. Stupid incompetent monster. Ate everybody else, but he couldn't manage the one person we wanted eaten.
Nah! Couldn't be.