Songs honoring Cult Actors....

[RCMerchant]

 Of Course there's BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD by Bauhaus....but here's some more I like...

The BALLAD of DWIGHT FRYE-

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n_5cjJppmqs

Now...don't get me wrong...I LIKE John Wayne....but I also like MDC...and the crazy song JOHN WAYNE WAS A NAZI>>>

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LfQsXrhF2X4

....so....any songs you can think of to ad...?  I got some more...but I don't wanna hog 'em all up!

[zombie no.one]

Royal Trux - Song For Stevie - (dedicated to steven segal)

there is also a band called 'Gay For Johnny Depp'...

[Allhallowsday]

ROXY MUSIC have a tribute on their first eponymous album, a track called "HB" about HUMPHREY BOGART. 
THE EAGLES have "James Dean" on their album On The Border. 
I'd guess you thought of "Candle In The Wind..."

[RCMerchant]

Howzabout BETTE DAVIS EYES?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eja-popojUo

...and of course...an old drinking bar song (at least in Van Buern County it was-) the CURLY SHUFFLE!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FKAfXdb5LsA

[Allhallowsday]

Yeh, I held off on KIM CARNES so as not to be greedy either! 

[JJ80]

Perhaps,

            "Robert De Niro's Waiting" by Bananarama,
            "Just Like Fred Astaire" by James,
            "The Ballad Of Chasey Lane" by The Bloodhound Gang.
       

[ToyMan]

it's not about him, near as i can tell, but gorillaz became popular with their radio hit "clint eastwood".

[Derf]

How about:
Joan Jett's "Ridin' With James Dean"
Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere" (Yeah, it's more about Elvis's singing, but the guy did do movies, too.)
The Dead Milkmen's "I Tripped Over the Ottoman (One too many Times)" about Dick Van Dyke

Then there's the band called The Mr. T Experience

[JJ80]

"Let Robeson Sing" - Manic Street Preachers
"Scarlet Johansson" - The Teenagers

[frank]

Hammer Horror - Kate Bush

Lady D'Arbanville - Cat Stevens (not really a cult actress...)

Grace Kelly Blues - EELS

Not about an actor, but a comedian: Man on the Moon - REM

[HappyGilmore]

Vampira by The Misfits

Not sure if this counts, but:



And:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EaGFPdP0-ug
Ralph Wiggum by Bloodhound Gang.  It's a 'cult' tv character.  They took different lines Ralph's said over the years on the Simpsons and put them to music. 

[Rev. Powell]

I seem to remember some alt-country band in the late 90s wrote a song about Sam Pekcinpah and Warren Oates. 

While searching for it online I found this 41 minute instrumental jam by an experimental jazz band instead:

http://glowsinthedark.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/warren-oates-suite-online/

(They also have a song entitled "Five Deadly Venoms": http://glowsinthedark.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/thursday-410-at-the-boot/)

But if anyone knows the alt-country song I'm thinking of, please post for karma.

[frank]

I seem to remember some alt-country band in the late 90s wrote a song about Sam Pekcinpah and Warren Oates. 

While searching for it online I found this 41 minute instrumental jam by an experimental jazz band instead:

http://glowsinthedark.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/warren-oates-suite-online/

(They also have a song entitled "Five Deadly Venoms": http://glowsinthedark.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/thursday-410-at-the-boot/)

But if anyone knows the alt-country song I'm thinking of, please post for karma.

Did a little online search myself. Could it be this?

"Warren Oates" by Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes
(Couldn't find any lyrics, though...)


I think there is also a song called "Lon Chaney"....

[AndyC]

Ian Thomas (brother of Dave 'Doug McKenzie' Thomas) did a couple of songs about stars of old movies. Not sure if they qualify as 'cult' but definitely for film buffs.


From 'Right Before Your Eyes'

Don't know the right things to say
So I pretend away,
that I'm Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain
And things will never be the same
And then just like Greta Garbo you'll stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of
And right before your eyes I'll fall in love with you


And the lyrics to 'Goodnight Mrs. Calabash'

They're all alive, in old movies
See them, even though they're gone
Can you remember Jimmy Durante?
His eyes glisten in the lights
Mrs. Calabash, goodnight, wherever you are
You can't be gone, you can't be gone, well not on my T.V.

Time just stands still in old movies
Love them, even though they're gone
Jack Benny's 39
Bogart's doing time
Wallace Beery's just the same
Still bugging Marjorie Maine
Oh, Marjorie Maine
You can't be gone, you can't be gone
Well not on my T.V.

His eyes glisten in the lights
Mrs. Calabash, goodnight, wherever you are
You can't be gone, you can't be gone, well not on my T.V.

[Rev. Powell]

I seem to remember some alt-country band in the late 90s wrote a song about Sam Pekcinpah and Warren Oates. 

While searching for it online I found this 41 minute instrumental jam by an experimental jazz band instead:

http://glowsinthedark.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/warren-oates-suite-online/

(They also have a song entitled "Five Deadly Venoms": http://glowsinthedark.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/thursday-410-at-the-boot/)

But if anyone knows the alt-country song I'm thinking of, please post for karma.

Did a little online search myself. Could it be this?

"Warren Oates" by Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes
(Couldn't find any lyrics, though...)


I think there is also a song called "Lon Chaney"....

Frank, I found a 30 second sample and I don't think that was the song I was thinking of.  It's an Australian band, and not particularly alt-country.  It actually sounds quite good.  Karma for trying.

I only heard the song once and didn't catch the name.  It seemed to have a plot about Peckinpah and Oates driving into the desert together (possibly never to return).