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Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing Off | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 16344
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 70187
UPC: 081227018726
EAN: 0081227018726
ASIN: B0000032C1
Release Date: May 1, 1992
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: brand new, inventory g30
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| Tracks:
| • | Proud Mary - Fogerty, John | | • | It Ain't Me Babe - Dylan, Bob | | • | Blowin' in the Wind - Dylan, Bob | | • | Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - Lennon, John | | • | A Whiter Shade of Pale - Brooker, Gary | | • | I Can See for Miles - Townshend, Pete | | • | Try a Little Tenderness - Campbell, Jimmy [Vo | | • | Twist and Shout - Medley, Phil | | • | House of the Rising Sun - Campbell, Jimmy [Fi | | • | Mr. Tambourine Man - Dylan, Bob | | • | You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Wonder, Stevie | | • | Like a Rolling Stone - Dylan, Bob | | • | White Room - Brown, Peter [1] | | • | If I Had a Hammer - Hays, Lee |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Songs sung by really unique people. March 29, 2008
Dennis Bainbridge (Kentucky)
I have enjoyed this c.d. because it has some of my favorite songs sung by people who do not sing for a living. I will say this I hope these people stay at their regular jobs.
 The ultimate deal-breaker August 29, 2007
The Mouse (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played this album for my roommate. She didn't kick me out. I gave a copy to my boyfriend shortly after we began going out. He played it for all his friends and they died laughing. (One noted Leonard Nimoy's output and asked, "Who the *expletive* let him do seven albums? Why didn't they stop him?") I've played it for co-workers, friends and family members. This record is the perfect way to find out who your true friends are. Anyone who's still your friend after hearing this album is a friend worth having.
Hilarious and surprisingly entertaining! August 26, 2007
Bevy McM (San Francisco, CA United States)
Once upon a time, there used to be "Variety Shows" on television -- each network had two or three, with the foremost being the Ed Sullivan Show. Appearing on the variety shows were famous celebrities as well as new upcoming acts. In addition to the Variety Shows, there were numerous "Talk Shows," like Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas, where celebrities would also perform. Back then, they figured, "if you can act, you can sing," so actors would be pressed into performing the current hit songs on these shows. From these comes "Golden Throats" -- songs sung by actors whose voices would be better left in the shower. These renditions are so over the top, one might suspect that we were being punked, however, the performers are earnestly trying their best to make their way through some of these classics. The outcome is hysterically funny, and these have become some of our favorites -- much in the way that William Hung made famous his performance of "She Bangs" on American Idol, which through its naive ineptness is so much better than the original!
My personal favorites are the Sebastian Cabot (Mr. French on Family Affair) selections -- there is nothing better!
Mostly junk food with some surprises... April 20, 2007
JAG 1 (New England)
I pride myself on having a rather pretentious collection of music (Classical, Jazz, Folk, World Music ect.); but sometimes it is good to sneak in a little candy or "junk food". A CD like this is one of my guilty pleasures. After all, You can't be pretentious all of the time.
P.S. The Bob Dylan covers are actually quite good, such as Sebastion Cabot's dramatic readings of Bob Dylan as "poetry"; Eddie Albert's rockin' version of "Blowin' in the Wind"; and William Shatner's intense and psychodelic rendition of "Mr. Tambourine Man".
 My ears are bleeding November 2, 2006
Charles H. Levenson (new jersey)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
All but one of the celebrities on this album should be ashamed of themselves...Not only can they NOT sing,but laws ought to be passed so that something like this can NEVER be perpetrated upon the listening public again...Sebastian Cabot is perhaps the worst offender(and the least remembered)of the celebrities who appear on this album...At the time Cabot,a small,rotund englishman,was playing a jeeves-like butler on an american sitcom along with actor Brian Keith(who does NOT sing on any album that I am aware of)and two snotty kids..Cabot's renditions of two early Bob Dylan tunes are enough to cause glass to shatter(in protest,and not because Cabot's voice has the strength of ,say,Ella Fitzgerald)...Jack Webb's first wife,Julie London COULD sing(and very well,too)..Maybe her vocal success made the great stoneface jealous...or maybe he just got tired of being known for his"just-the-facts-mam" monotone on"Dragnet"..in any event,his rendering of"Try a little tenderness"proves the old saw that every INTELLIGENT person knows and resprects his/her limitations..Joel Grey can sing,well,sort of...He was the star of the original"cabaret",both on broadway and in the movie version...But sounding like a gremlin with a hollywoodesque nazi-accent for his role in"Cabaret"is not the same as doing"White Room"...I mean,in"Cabaret"we all knew that Grey's charecter,and his vocals,weren't to be taken seriously....Mae West had one foot in the grave and the other on a bannana peel when she inflicted her version of"Twist & Shout"on the listening public..She had also recently completed filming her worst film appearance ever in"Myra Breckinridge")..taken together West's final choices do much to sink the star-status impression which was hers in the 1920s and 1930s...Andy Griffith,Mayberry's amiable policeman,can navigate his way through old time hymns,as evidenced by his numerous gospel efforts,but singing pop is quite beyond his ability..singing"House of the rising sun"is something akin to scooby doo attempting"Ave Maria"...Shatner and Nimoy of "Star Trek"fame also appear on this disc,but any discussion of thier utter lack of vocal ability would require page after page(and numerous expletive deleted references)and is perhaps better attempted elsewhere...Finally we have Eddie Albert,WW2 war hero,actor,writer,Star of"Green Acres" and,YES,a decent vocalist ,who at one time did sing with the 1940s big bands...Alas,Eddie's talents are better suited to such ballads as "jenny Kissed Me"(one of his 1950s hit singles)than to doing"Blowing in the wind"..As a goof,this album is sort of funny the first time that it is heard,but like a topical joke it becomes very stale thereafter
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