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Film Actors Who Had Just One Top 40 Chart Hit (in UK or US)
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I know it's not UK or US, but:
Oliver Kahn was not only in the running for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his role in Deutschland: Ein Sommermaerchen, but also sang his stocking-tops off on Far Away In America, which, I think, scraped into the German Top 40 in 1994.Last edited by treibeis; 03-07-2020, 10:58.
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostIn one of those things I have no need or desire to remember but still do, I recall Ronnie Barker "doing" Buster Bloodvessel with a song that went "I got bad habits / I don't feed me mother's rabbits". In the way these things went the parody was probably years after Bad Manners' heyday so too late for a cash-in single.
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Really pushing the envelope here, but John " Nasty Nick " Altman, who appeared in Quadrophenia, and played George Harrison in Birth of the Beatles, had a number one in the UK as part of the "Ferry Aid " charity single.
Also Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer and Harvey Keitel were all sampled on Scooby Snacks by The Fun Loving Crimimals.
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Completing the alphabet:
Kiri Te Kanawa (played herself in Don't Let it Get to You, 1966), World in Union, No.4, 1991
Topol, If I Were A Rich Man, No.9, 1967
Norman Vaughan, Swinging in the Rain, No.34, 1962
Denise Welch, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, No.23, 1995
Jane Wiedlin, Rush Hour, No.12, 1988 (though later had a top 40 hit with the reunited Go-Gos, 1995)
Dooley Wilson, As Time Goes By, No.15, 1977 (also featuring credited voices of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman)
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Eat It, No.36, 1984
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All of the members of Toto Coelo, I Eat Cannibals Part 1, No.8, 1982The band was briefly featured in the unreleased horror film Grizzly II: The Predator , performing "Milk from the Coconut" in a few scenes of the rock concert
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Musicians in films are outside the remit if they are performing music or appearing in documentaries rather than being actors.
Eamonn Andrews squeezes in with a #18 hit and a TV movie of "Babes In The Wood"
Jane Wyman and Grace Kelly both had one-off hits in duets with Bing Crosby.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 03-07-2020, 23:53.
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Did Terry Wogan ever make a cameo film appearance?
Originally posted by pebblethefish View PostI can't believe that Tony Hawks has never appeared in a film, but apparently not, so I can't force Stutter Rap into this thread.
But you surely nobody wants to be recalling the awful pile of old poop that was Stutter Rap?
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostMusicians in films are outside the remit if they are performing music or appearing in documentaries rather than being actors.
Eamonn Andrews squeezes in with a #18 hit and a TV movie of "Babes In The Wood"
Jane Wyman and Grace Kelly both had one-off hits in duets with Bing Crosby.
Grace Kelly of course a cornerstone for a spinoff "top 40 hits named after actors". With Robert De Niro. No, stop it.....
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostDid Terry Wogan ever make a cameo film appearance?
One that got away (linked to Wogan), Lorraine Chase was famously not on the cash-in single for her "Luton Airport" Campari advert which did make the top 40, and then on the back of that she released her own single "It's Nice ere Innit" which failed to chart.
And in another link to Wogan, I thought I was onto something with brass bands and their connection to the film Brassed Off but again, nothing. The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band of course took The Floral Dance higher than he did, but weren't in the film. The Grimethorpe Colliery Band were in the film, but they valued cred over chart potential with their appearances, including When an Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease by Roy Harper and, er, an NCB advert with Max Bygraves. (Make note to crowbar into future thread somehow, Andy Cato of Groove Armada used to play trombone in the band).
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
Grace Kelly of course a cornerstone for a spinoff "top 40 hits named after actors". With Robert De Niro. No, stop it.....Last edited by Sporting; 04-07-2020, 15:08.
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