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!

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.

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.

I Get a Kick Out of You

Dingo (LP 1974)

Gary Shearston

Cole Porter on Quaaludes

The Sound of Music

Gorilla (LP 196?)

The Bonzo Dog Band

Juile Andrews on acid

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

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

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".

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.

Carmen

Spike Jones is Murdering the Classics (LP 1971)

Spike Jones and His City Slickers

No comment is necessary.

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.

Go to the next show ("God's Greatest Hits").
Go to the previous show ("Deconstructing Ocasr")
Return to the Stage Left Calendar.
Visit the KDHX Home Page.