Album covers by famous people you didn't know tried their hand in music.

[Hardbopjazz]

I did not know.

[sidewinder]

[A Lark Ascending]

Pope Francis rocks: this ain't no dinner-party album

Expect Pope Francis on 'Strictly' or 'I'm a Celebrity' very soon. 

Edited November 30, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[duaneiac]

The CD from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, titled appropriately,

[Hardbopjazz]

8 hours ago, duaneiac said:

The CD from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, titled appropriately,

 Is this one for real?

[duaneiac]

13 hours ago, Hardbopjazz said:

 Is this one for real?

It is indeed and I have a copy of it somewhere.

[fasstrack]

1 hour ago, duaneiac said:

It is indeed and I have a copy of it somewhere.

Why?

[Hardbopjazz]

[Hardbopjazz]

[mikeweil]

[Hardbopjazz]

 

[Hardbopjazz]

[gmonahan]

On 11/29/2015 at 10:33 AM, duaneiac said:

The CD from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, titled appropriately,

 

 

gregmo

[duaneiac]

A couple more from my collection --

While they weren't exactly Steve & Eydie, this album does have a certain charm, especially if you happened to grow up when this show was such a hit.

I guess I knew that Gene Barry could sing because I heard him on the Original Cast Album of "La Cage Aux Folles", but I never knew he had previously recorded an entire album.

 

[Hardbopjazz]

[duaneiac]

I have this one too --

At long last, you can hear Hoss, Little Joe and Papa Ben Cartwight sing all your holiday favorites  Pernell Roberts apparently wanted nothing to do with this bit of merchandising, for even though he is pictured on the cover, it is explained that Adam had to be away somewhere on that particular Christmas.  The album is actually kind of  a story with music as friends and neighbors (who as I recall, carry a lot of the singing duties) of the Cartwights come over to the Ponderosa for a Christmas Eve party.  There's even some funny old spinster who flirts with Ben.  It's the next best thing to having to endure sitting through an entire episode of this show (which I hated, but my dad loved so we ended up watching it every week -- this was way back in the old days, kids, when most homes only had one TV set).  I guess this album came before the pinnacle of Lorne Greene's "singing" career, the classic, "Ringo".

While doing an image search for the above album, I also came across this --

Apparently, it was a single released only in Germany and the Netherlands.

Edited August 23, 2016 by duaneiac

[duaneiac]

This one is actually a favorite of mine:

Calling this "a dramatic reading" is the understatement of the year.  This, my friends, is ACTING!!!!  I like to picture Mr. French getting Buffy and Jodie all tucked in bed and then getting them ready to doze off on a pleasant trip to slumberland by reciting for them something like this:

Why couldn't all the famous TV domestic servants have recorded an album like this?  I'm sure there would have been a market (me, at the very least) for say,  Ann B. Davis Sings Tom Waits or The Best of Jack Kerouac as Read by Shirley Booth