Whitney Houston had a monster hit with Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" from The Bodyguard. The song still plays on pop radio to this day.
The film was a big box office hit but still got terrible reviews as I recall.
And Dolly had an even better version in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which may also qualify as a turkey. Maybe. Perhaps a Royal Palm turkey, one of the least turkeyey turkeys.
Fits all the criteria - so timeless it has its own Wikipedia entry, it's a turkey film in its purest form (even the song is about a turkey!), and I had to endure it.
Fits all the criteria - so timeless it has its own Wikipedia entry, it's a turkey film in its purest form (even the song is about a turkey!), and I had to endure it.
So...
Now it's your turn.
This only counts if the OP counts songs written well-before the film. Apparently, "Turkey in the Straw" is a folk song.
DINNER AT EIGHT, 1935, gave us "I'm in the Mood for Love"
Do you mean DINNER AT EIGHT, 1933, David O Selznick's sparkling and hilarious adaptation of the Edna Ferber play with two of the Barrymores and Jean Harlow? Not forgettable and not forgotten - highly regarded to this day.
The more obvious choices are 2 from Michel Legrand. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending . . .
I wouldn't call The Happy Ending a turkey. It was ahead of its time in some ways: a serious examination of a woman's discontent in an outwardly successful but confining marriage. Jean Simmons, enacting some of her own experiences with writer-director-husband Richard Brooks, was deservedly Oscar nominated. Agree that Brooks -- a better director than writer -- did author some cringe worthy dialogue.
The song played over the opening credit montage, in which the middle-aged John Forsythe and Simmons enacted (not very convincingly) their collegiate courtship years. I thought the music rather gooey and was surprised years later to learn that it had become a pop standard.
While MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME is one of my all-time favorite movies, I know others might call it a turkey, WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO is an enduring song.
Fits all the criteria - so timeless it has its own Wikipedia entry, it's a turkey film in its purest form (even the song is about a turkey!), and I had to endure it.
So...
Now it's your turn.
This only counts if the OP counts songs written well-before the film. Apparently, "Turkey in the Straw" is a folk song.
Yeah, it's a joke. As in, it's another way to interpret the OPs thread title.
I was writing about the experience of enduring a song from a turkey film.
DINNER AT EIGHT, 1933, David O Selznick's sparkling and hilarious adaptation of the Edna Ferber play with two of the Barrymores and Jean Harlow? Not forgettable and not forgotten - highly regarded to this day.
And not a musical. So it was a typo. It's actually EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT.
ROSE OF THE RANCHO (1936), that historically-important, artistically-dazzling, unforgettable film, taught in all the cinema schools. Anybody heard of it?
If not, you've probably heard "If I Should Lose You" by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger which is from the score, and still played by the jazz-ers.
ROSE OF THE RANCHO (1936), that historically-important, artistically-dazzling, unforgettable film, taught in all the cinema schools. Anybody heard of it?
If not, you've probably heard "If I Should Lose You" by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger which is from the score, and still played by the jazz-ers.
Not so much a turkey...mixed reviews from critics but a box office success: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with the hit song (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.
Not so much a turkey...mixed reviews from critics but a box office success: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with the hit song (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.
THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946): Having just seen it, it's.... well, about as forgettable as any of the other sentimental musicals made in this period. History has generally forgotten it, except for Vera Ellen's last.
Soooo..... how about "You Make Me Feel So Young", the song Myrow and Gordon wrote for it?
THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946): Having just seen it, it's.... well, about as forgettable as any of the other sentimental musicals made in this period. History has generally forgotten it, except for Vera Ellen's last.
Soooo..... how about
I'll even make the case for TWO standards coming out of it, since my jaw dropped open when I heard that this song was written for it, and not one re-used from the early 1900's:
Anybody heard of it?