# Bakers Dozen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4121 "2011-03-11T15:25:39Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4122 "2011-03-11T15:46:08Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son
8. The Rainmaker (Grisham-Damon movie, not Lancaster-Hepburn)

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4123 "2011-03-11T15:58:46Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son
8. The Rainmaker (Grisham-Damon movie, not Lancaster-Hepburn)
9. The Trial (a Beavis and Butt-head episode)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4124 "2011-03-11T16:01:29Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son
8. The Rainmaker (Grisham-Damon movie, not Lancaster-Hepburn)
9. The Trial (a Beavis and Butt-head episode)
10. My Cousin Vinnie

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4125 "2011-03-11T16:15:51Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son
8. The Rainmaker (Grisham-Damon movie, not Lancaster-Hepburn)
9. The Trial (a Beavis and Butt-head episode)
10. My Cousin Vinnie
11. Adam’s Rib

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4126 "2011-03-11T17:06:01Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son
8. The Rainmaker (Grisham-Damon movie, not Lancaster-Hepburn)
9. The Trial (a Beavis and Butt-head episode)
10. My Cousin Vinnie
11. Adam’s Rib
12. The Fountainhead

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4127 "2011-03-11T17:08:35Z")

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Fictional works containing a trial:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Trial
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Dosadi Experiment (by Frank Herbert)
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Twelve Angry Men
7. Native Son
8. The Rainmaker (Grisham-Damon movie, not Lancaster-Hepburn)
9. The Trial (a Beavis and Butt-head episode)
10. My Cousin Vinnie
11. Adam’s Rib
12. The Fountainhead
13. Kramer vs. Kramer

Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)

ETA: others feel free to add youtube links; I can’t from work.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4128 "2011-03-11T17:13:23Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4129 "2011-03-11T17:37:05Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_

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**Author:** ![EristicKallistic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@EristicKallistic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EristicKallistic)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4130 "2011-03-11T17:46:39Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4131 "2011-03-11T19:46:31Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4132 "2011-03-11T20:04:36Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4133 "2011-03-11T20:04:58Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
7. Telly Savalas ([If](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNVvlLAvswg))

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4134 "2011-03-11T20:11:19Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
7. Telly Savalas (If)
8. Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4135 "2011-03-11T20:17:48Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
7. Telly Savalas (If)
8. Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)
9. [Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can’t Fix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FtI3cmZ38)

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4136 "2011-03-11T20:30:16Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
>
> ETA: others feel free to add youtube links; I can’t from work.

Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. [Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-MSZSLC5w))
2. [Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48RmW5EKiY)
3. [Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jG30y2qcVY)
4. [William Shatner (The Transformed Man)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hTtsqiFCc)
5. [Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2deTJpNOuo)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
7. [Telly Savalas (If)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNVvlLAvswg)
8. [Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hawOAtZcW9o)
9. [Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can’t Fix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FtI3cmZ38)

Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a video of Jack Webb singing. So instead here’s [Joe Friday interrogating Roman Polanski](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZ_wEXiAoc).

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4137 "2011-03-12T01:20:20Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
>
> Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a video of Jack Webb singing. So instead here’s [Joe Friday interrogating Roman Polanski](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZ_wEXiAoc).

Okay, my memory was a bit off–he doesn’t actually _sing_ it per se. But it’s still [sort of musical, and definitely bad](http://www.silverstatechronicles.com/wordpress/music/try-a-little-tenderness-by-jack-webb), so I guess it still counts. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4138 "2011-03-12T01:36:31Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
7. Telly Savalas (If)
8. Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)
9. Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can’t Fix
10. Lucille Ball (_Mame_)

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4139 "2011-03-12T01:53:04Z")

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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections\_
4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
7. Telly Savalas (If)
8. Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)
9. Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can’t Fix
10. Lucille Ball (Mame)
11. Sylvester Stallone (Paradise Alley)

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvPe58Qqs74)

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4140 "2011-03-12T02:59:26Z")

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> [@Infovore](#):
>
> Okay, my memory was a bit off–he doesn’t actually _sing_ it per se. But it’s still [sort of musical, and definitely bad](http://www.silverstatechronicles.com/wordpress/music/try-a-little-tenderness-by-jack-webb), so I guess it still counts. 🙂

I wasn’t disputing the singing part. I just couldn’t find a video of it at all.

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