# Duets from Hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811 "2012-02-05T00:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/21 "2012-02-05T15:11:13Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > William Shatner and Liza Minelli OTOH, [Shatner’s duet with Henry Rollins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-eJQ1mTVzA) is pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/22 "2012-02-05T15:13:56Z")
Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/23 "2012-02-05T17:21:28Z")
> [@BeaMyra](#): > > Kim Carnes and Rod Stewart. You couldn’t tell them apart 🙂 “…without you have a look at them. And then you’d have a job!” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/24 "2012-02-05T21:23:54Z")
Roseanne Barr and Steven Tyler singing the National Anthem together. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/25 "2012-02-05T22:03:39Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [Florence Foster Jenkins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlVoQ0e5c) and . . . anybody. Florence Foster Jenkins and [Mrs. Miller.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Elva_Miller) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/26 "2012-02-05T22:07:27Z")
Björk and Yoko Ono. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/27 "2012-02-05T22:20:51Z")
Me and **Taomist’s** cat. or Rebecca Black and Billie Holiday. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/28 "2012-02-05T23:04:01Z")
Johnny Cash and Fiona Apple was mess. I’m shocked they actually used that track on the album. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/29 "2012-02-06T00:23:20Z")
Shirley Temple (as a tot) and Lou Rawls. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/30 "2012-02-06T01:04:25Z")
Julie Andrews and Bobcat Goldthwaite. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/31 "2012-02-06T03:55:31Z")
**Nat King Cole** and his daughter **Natalie Cole** , _but it has to be recorded after his death_. And it must be a creepily inappropriate track like, oh, [del]Unforgivable[/del] Unforgettable. Come to think of it, this may the only nomination so far that might literally come from hell. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/32 "2012-02-06T05:11:04Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [Florence Foster Jenkins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlVoQ0e5c) and . . . anybody. I was going to say a yodeler and anybody, but then again, I actually like yodelers. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/33 "2012-02-06T08:58:10Z")
Kelly Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne Paris Hilton and Rebecca Black Alanis Morissette and Trent Reznor Sarah Brightman and Gerard Butler (oh yeah, I went there). Gerard could never sing _at all_. And although Sarah was great in her heyday, listening to her live now… it’s like she’s _just_ lagging behind on every. single. note. It’s particularly noticeable in [this duet she did with Jackie Evancho](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlkxA1y6Qqw). ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/34 "2012-02-06T12:05:17Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Me and my cat. > > Tom Waits and Kim Carnes. > > Sober, of course. Drunk, they’d be great! > > I mean them, not the audience. > > Ok, what the hell, everyone can drink and it’d be an awesome show. > Everyone could sing along, all sounding like a crowd of people gargling flaming charcoal. > > Except my cat. He’s not allowed to drink. > > psst…I love Tom Waits, and have nothing against Kim Carnes, but you have to admit they both sound like ‘Before’ commercials for some Cold and Flu remedy. Nothing to add other than I now love you and am crushing on you hard because of this magnificent post! ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/35 "2012-02-06T13:40:54Z")
[Dame Joan Sutherland](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRq62oYZOyE&feature=related) & [Boxcar Willie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUaGlOJYC5o&feature=related) [Enrico Caruso](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozan4D5FyEU&feature=related) & [Sheb Wooley](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4ycvr9Txc&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/36 "2012-02-06T13:57:40Z")
…of course, if we can include a trio: [Chubby Checker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyaxcvHSyZY&feature=related) & The [Twinnies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmDAu_47OE&feature=fvwrel) ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/37 "2012-02-06T14:04:41Z")
Barry White and [Joe Pasquale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_efEsSPNs). (Pasquale actually sounds less squeaky than normal in that clip). ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/38 "2012-02-06T14:11:19Z")
Celene Dion and Slim Whitman. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/39 "2012-02-06T14:56:22Z")
Tiny Tim & Janis Joplin Joe Cocker and Carol Channing ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811/40 "2012-02-06T14:58:08Z")
Oh, how about Clay Aiken and kd lang doing a love ballad together… just picture those two trying to sound as if they’re crazy about each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duets-from-hell/611811.md?page=3)