Favorite Intentionally Bad (Funny) Songs In Films

[James Fox]

(Not sure if this topic has already been covered. If it has, I apologize)



What are your favorites?



"This Is Spinal Tap" has some great ones. ("Stonehenge" is perhaps my personal favorite)



Also I love the scenes of porn stars from "Boggie Nights" in the record studio with their awful songs ("You got the touch/You got the power." LOL)



And of course the cringeworthy Warren Beatty/Dustin Hoffman songwriting scenes in "Ishtar." ("Hot fudge love/Cherry ripple kisses/Lip-smacking, back-slapping/Perfectly delicious" LOL)

[Timmy_Lea]

name='James Fox']

Also I love the scenes of porn stars from "Boggie Nights" in the record studio with their awful songs ("You got the touch/You got the power." LOL)

How dare you say that about the mighty Stan Bush tune The Touch, which was originally from the Transformers animated movie!



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764]YouTube - Stan Bush - The Touch[/ame]

[GoggleboxUK]

These 2 from The Pick of Destiny crack me up every time, Dave Grohl from Nirvana & The Foo Fighters as the devil is just fantastic casting.



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVl8u9wtMI]YouTube - Classico - Tenacious D the pick of destiny[/ame]



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jm3Zb-HSvo]YouTube - Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny Ending (spoiler)[/ame]

[dremble wedge]

No contest for me, the Elephant Man musical from The Tall Guy



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Df-bLBTfI]YouTube - "Here he comes, Mr Disgusting!" from Elephant - The Musical[/ame]



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-V7GjWffPs&feature=related]YouTube - Somewhere Up In Heaven There's An Angel With Big Ears[/ame]

[penfold]

The use of Bad Moon Rising in An American Werewolf in London ???

[woody123]

The spoof Shirley Bassey Bond-style Theme from Life Of Brian

[woody123]

name='penfold']The use of Bad Moon Rising in An American Werewolf in London ???

Excellent use of songs throughout AWIL.Herrick the chief vampire in BBC's Being Human sings a bit of Bad Moon to George the werewolf in the last episode in a nod to the best werewolf movie ever.

[wadsy]

One of the funniest I've seen is a young Richard Crenna "singing" in the film



It Grows On Trees 1952. He's brilliant!!

[will.15]

name='wadsy']One of the funniest I've seen is a young Richard Crenna "singing" in the film



It Grows On Trees 1952. He's brilliant!!

Intentionally bad singing isn't quite the same as intentionally bad songs, but another case of that is Alfalfa crooning in the Our Gang/Little Rascal shorts.

[Reeldigger]

In the movie 10, Dudley Moore tries to keep a straight face when minister Max Showalter, who fancies himself as a composer of pop tunes, demonstrates his questionable talents at the piano. Funniest scene in the movie. The music was actually composed by Henry Mancini; whoever wrote the painful, cornpone lyrics (I think it was Carol Bayer Sager) must have had a good time.

[James Fox]

name='Reeldigger']In the movie 10, Dudley Moore tries to keep a straight face when minister Max Showalter, who fancies himself as a composer of pop tunes, demonstrates his questionable talents at the piano. Funniest scene in the movie. The music was actually composed by Henry Mancini; whoever wrote the painful, cornpone lyrics (I think it was Carol Bayer Sager) must have had a good time.

LOL Forgot about that one. Love that scene!

[Gerald Lovell]

In "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", Michael Robbins as a drag artist butler (!?) sings an awful song in a nightclub, apparently dubbed by Julie Andrews.

[Briant]

Madeline Kahn singing' Im so tired' a la Dietrich in 'Blazing Saddles.'

[SirOllyBolly]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw[/ame]

[Briant]

'Two Hundred Years' (A patriotic song) by Henry Gibson from Robert Altman's 'Nashville.'

[will.15]

Some of the most dreadful songs of all time were the theme songs of TV sitcoms from the 1960's. Were they intentionally bad? I don't know. The opening songs for The Beverly Hilbillies and Gilligan's Island are all catchy in an irresistable guilty pleasure way. But the all time worst song was from the show called the all time worst (hey, as a kid I liked it) and that was my Mother the Car. I haven't seen it since it went off the air after just one season, but I can still recall the dopey tune and much of the lyrics:



We all come back sooner or later

From a pussycat to a man eating alligator

Now you may think my story is

More fiction than it's fact

But believe it or not my mother dear

Decided she'd come back

As a car

She's my very own guiding star

As a....(I don't remember the make and year)

That's my mother dear

She goes everywhere I go

And I'm so glad she's there

My mother the car



I looked at the show on youtube. It is not the worst show on television, just the worst idea. I didn't get all the lyrics right, but I came close.

[woody123]

Any of the songs from "Springtime For Hitler" in the Producers particularly "Springtime" itself and the Dick Shawn Hippy song "Love Power"

[will.15]

name='woody123']Any of the songs from "Springtime For Hitler" in the Producers particularly "Springtime" itself and the Dick Shawn Hippy song "Love Power"

Definitely Love Power...a hiarious, but real ramshacle ditty. Mel Brooks didn't write it. Shawn was using it in his stand-up act prior to the filming and performed it for Brooks as part of his audition. When Shawn died years later, it was while he was performing his one man show. At one piont, playing a politician, he said, "I will not lie down on the job." Later he suddenly fell face down on the stage. The audience roared with laughter, thinking it was part of the act. It wasn't. He had suffered a massive heart attack and was pronounced dead when paaramedics arrived.

[woody123]

name='will.15']Definitely Love Power...a hiarious, but real ramshacle ditty. Mel Brooks didn't write it. Shawn was using it in his stand-up act prior to the filming and performed it for Brooks as part of his audition. When Shawn died years later, it was while he was performing his one man show. At one piont, playing a politician, he said, "I will not lie down on the job." Later he suddenly fell face down on the stage. The audience roared with laughter, thinking it was part of the act. It wasn't. He had suffered a massive heart attack and was pronounced dead when paaramedics arrived.

What makes Love Power so funny for me is that I'm a big fan of late 60's psychedelic music and there's a very,very thin line between some of the stuff that's meant to be serious and spoofs like "LP"

[moviefreak]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADARBPqldsA]YouTube - The Three Amigos: My Little Buttercup[/ame]



a classic one... i love this movie!