Worst singing in a movie theme song?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I thought up this category the other night when my local PBS station showed the original version of The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was a fun movie, and I knew that its theme music was "Windmills of Your Mind" by Michel LeGrand, but I had heard the tune only as an instrumental. In that version, the tune was monotonous, but smooth and flowing like a river.

However, I heard it sung with words for the first time, and after the first few bars, all I wanted to know was, "Who IS that annoying singer?" The tempo and phrasing were just plain awkward.

Well, I watched the credits carefully and learned that the singer was Noel Harrison. Younger DUers may not know who that is, but he's the son of Rex Harrison (Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady), and for a while in the 1960s, he was being promoted as some kind of mod matinee idol in a turtleneck. Haing heard him sing that theme song, I now understand why his career never took off.

What movie theme song performances do you really dislike?

[merh]

1. The Poseidon Adventure

What was the blondes name? "There has to be a morning after"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Maureen McGovern?

:shrug:

[merh]

5. That's who sang the song.

Who was the annoying blonde that played the singer? Carol something.

[mykpart]

16. Carol Lynley played the singer.

But I always thought it was Karen Carpenter singing.

[CanuckAmok]

7. Ha! I just watched that a couple of weeks ago.

Maureen McGovern and her brother (who looked like a discount Sonny Bono--yes, even more discount than Bono himself) were paying their fare on the Poseidon by performing, and they were to be dropped off at one of the ports of call.

Pamela Sue Martin was in it, too, but she didn's sing.

Behold:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Maureen McGovern, I think.

Ghastly.

[merh]

9. Who was the blonde actress that played the singer in the movie?

She annoyed the hell out of me.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Was it Carol Lynley?

Her character was possibly the most vapid, insipid ninny of all time.
It takes a great actress to portray someone so shallow.

[merh]

12. That's her name, thank you.

Do you think she was acting? I got the impression from other roles she did that she wasn't. I could be wrong.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

29. You may be right...

I don't recall seeing her perform any other role.

[Placebo]

3. Anything Disney.

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the horror . . .

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the horror . . .

[elperromagico]

6. Any movie theme sung by Randy Newman.

It's not that he's singing the songs so much as that the songs, regardless of the movie, always seem to sound exactly the same.

It's a pity because he's actually a very good composer.

[roguevalley]

8. clint eastwood in the movie paint your wagon

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Ding!

My vote goes there...

The movie was so poorly altered from the Broadway show that it was a complete joke even without Lee Marvin.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Clint Eastwood singing...

I don't even have to hear that to conjure up the horror.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

18. Not only Clint E singing... Lee Marvin TOO!

a double whammy.

[Greyhound]

22. My first thought, n/t

[enigmatic]

14. Sylvester Stallone in "Paradise Alley"

Oy..

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. I don't know whether that's worse than Clint Eastwood, but

the mind boggles.

[Bucky]

15. The theme song to Don Knotts's "The Incredible Mr Limpett"

"Be careful how you wish, for wishes can come truuue
And you'll turn into a fish, to swiminthe ocean bluuuue"

I mean, that shit doesn't even scan.

[kodi]

17. ah, noel harrison, the poor man's richard harris

well since "beyond the valley of the dolls" was on tv this weekend, whoever wrote and sang that crap must take the cake. to think that it took a pound of weed, lsd and roger ebert put that out.

still, it was way better than any tv movie of the week in those days.

[madeline_con]

19. Liam Neeson and Patrick Swayze... "Brothers"...

from that movie about some guy from Kentucky avenging his brother's death. The bro may have been a cop, not sure.

Bad song.

[Tallison]

20. Swayze did another for the

Dirty Dancing soundtrack. "She's Breaking Wind" or some such. He should stick to looking dumb and sexy in tight pants...

[Greyhound]

21. How 'bout sticking that Bionce song into the credits in Chicago?!?

[terrya]

23. Duran Duran singing "A View to a Kill"

The WORST James Bond theme song. And Duran Duran was the reason why.

[MN ChimpH8R]

26. No Way, Dude

That's one of my favorite Bond themes, and I wasn't even that much of a Duran Duran fan. Tho their first single (Planet Earth) was pretty cool.

The theme and and Christopher Walken were the best things about that movie.

[MissMillie]

25. That would be none other than....

(you guessed it....) Frank Stallone



from the movie Staying Alive.


(You didn't specify that it had to be from a GOOD movie!)

[arwalden]

27. Ack... You're Right! "Windmills Of Your Mind" Was HORRIBLE!!

Besides having horrible pitch... It was almost as though he was making it up as he went along.

[derby378]

28. Probably Madonna in "Die Another Day"

She was almost monotonal in that performance. What was she thinking?

This is the same woman who brought us Frozen, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, and Ray of Light. Maybe she was just having a bad day.