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Anything You Can Do |
Annie Get Your Gun (OC 1999) |
Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat |
A preview of the cast recording, due on shelves 4/20/1999. Yes, it's not as silly as the rest of the show. So sue us! |
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Turn Me Loose on Broadway |
Hollywood Hi-Fi (CD 1996) |
Bette Davis |
From Two's Company (1952), one of two attempts at a Broadway musical by Davis, despite a complete inability to sing or dance. It ran 90 sold-out performances despite being universally panned, after which Davis quit the show, allegedly because of an infected tooth. |
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The Four Gobs |
Fighting Clowns (OC 1980) |
The Firesign Theatre |
Sending up On the Town, among others. The LP was the group's only "cabaret" show and wasn't well received by some fans. |
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I Get a Kick Out of You |
Dingo (LP 1974) |
Gary Shearston |
Cole Porter on Quaaludes |
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The Sound of Music |
Gorilla (LP 196?) |
The Bonzo Dog Band |
Juile Andrews on acid |
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Piggy in the Middle |
The Rutles (LP 1978) |
The Rutles (Neil Innes, Ollie Halsall, Rikki Fataar, John Halsey) |
From the made-for-TV movie All You Need is Cash |
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In the Beginning/With a Little Help From My Friends |
Golden Throats IV: Celebrities Butcher Songs of the Beatles (CD 1997) |
George Burns |
From With a Little Help From My Friends (1968), apparently an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the Fab Four |
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She's Leaving Home |
Joel Grey |
One of Broadway's great performers demonstrates that he really doesn't get this song. It's from Black Sheep Boy (1969), which includes an equally clueless rendition of "White Room". |
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Spleen/Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds |
William Shatner |
From The Transformed Man (1967), which Shatner recorded after allegedly being led to safety by an alien after a motorcycle accident in the desert. Honest. |
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Carmen |
Spike Jones is Murdering the Classics (LP 1971) |
Spike Jones and His City Slickers |
No comment is necessary. |
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Oh, Streetcar! (The Musical) |
Songs in the Key of Springfield (CD 1997) |
Jon Lovitz and The Simpsons |
From A Streetcar Named Marge (10/1/1992), in which Marge is cast as Blanche DuBois in a local production of the musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire. |
| *Acronyms and other mysteries defined:
OC: unless otherwise indicated, the Original Cast recording of a Broadway show, along with the date. OS: unless otherwise indicated, the Original Soundtrack recording of a film, TV show, etc. |
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