# Most Bizarre Musical Duet or Collaboration **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014 "2001-04-15T01:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/1 "2001-04-15T01:06:49Z")
Maybe this question is inspired by those commercials where they have a very odd assortment of celebrities preparing dinner like they’re a family. (i.e. Mr. T/Loni Anderson/Mary Lou Retton/George Hamilton, Sally Jesse Raphael/Chuck Woolery/Little Richard/Pat Morita) Maybe this question is inspired by the pairing of Elton John and Eminem. Anyway, what do you think would be the oddest or most bizarre musical duet or collaboration? For instance…imagine Morrissey cutting an album with Snoop Doggy Dog, or some saccharine pop diva like Jewel joining up with some metal or hard rocker like Glen Danzig, or some twangy male country singer teaming up with a techno rave band like Jesus Jones, the Shamen, or EMF…what is the most bizarre and twisted musical collaboration that the human mind could imagine, and what would it sound like? ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/2 "2001-04-15T01:24:33Z")
Not that I’d be caught dead watching it, but I’ve recently seen a commercial for a musical concert on VH1 featuring a duet between Aretha Franklin and Kid Rock. /shudders If there are any worse, I don’t even want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/3 "2001-04-15T01:45:37Z")
Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Singing _Little Drummer Boy_. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/4 "2001-04-15T02:11:02Z")
I’d have to say that if anyone wrote music for a tuba and a violin, that’d be pretty weird. Oh…but you’re talking about pop music? In that case, I’d go with the little kid who had that country song (you know who he is…he had the hit last fall and he sings really high…“one life”, “one heart”, “one prayer” - the title was something like that) and Ozzy. Preferably, in the video, Ozzy would encounter some chickens. And then, for fun, we’d throw Madonna in there. OH! The title of that kid’s song is “One Voice”! (I think.) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/5 "2001-04-15T03:13:01Z")
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias (that’s Enrique’s dad) - “To All the Girls We Loved Before” ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/6 "2001-04-15T03:20:23Z")
Salvadore Dali and the Marx Brothers. This actually happened, although it never got beyond the stage where Dali suggested a bunch of bits, like Groucho as a multi-armed Hindu God (Shiva?) answering a multitude of phones. He also presented Harpo with a harp tuned with barbed wire. There’s a great gag photo of Harpo, bandages on his fingers, staring daggers at Dali who’s answering with a “whad ya expect?” shrug. pesch ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/7 "2001-04-15T04:01:02Z")
**Term** : (can I call you **Term**?) That was from SNL, right? Or am I just hallucinating? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/8 "2001-04-15T04:34:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\*That was from SNL, right? Or am I just hallucinating? \*\* Yes, SNL did have a parody with Matthew Perry playing Julio Iglesias, but he (Julio, I mean) really did sing with Willie Nelson and that really was the name of the song. He also did a duet with Diana Ross but I can’t remember the name of the song. ---
**Author:** ![dodge\_this](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dodge\_this](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dodge_this)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/9 "2001-04-15T08:17:42Z")
I believe Willie Nelson also did something with Sinead O’Connor…can’t remember the song though, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/10 "2001-04-15T12:24:06Z")
One I’d personally like to see: Old school riot grrl Courtney Love and Britney Spears ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/11 "2001-04-15T12:43:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dodge\_this \* > \*\*I believe Willie Nelson also did something with Sinead O’Connor…can’t remember the song though, sorry. \*\* Willie Nelson did at least one album full of duets. My father has a copy, I think… ::Goes to get it:: It’s called (Get this) ‘Half Nelson’, and while it doesn’t have the Nelson/O’Connor duet that dodge mentioned, it has Willie and Julio doing To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before (Track 7), as well as (None really as strange as that): Pancho and Lefty, with Merle Haggard; Slow Movin’ Outlaw, with Lacy J. Dalton; Are There Any More Real Cowboys? with Neil Yoing; I Told a Lie to My Heart, with Hank Williams; Texas on a Saturday Night, with Mel Tillis; Seven Spanish Angels, with Ray Charles; They All Went to Mexico, with Carlos Santana; Honky Tonk Women, with Leon Russel; and Half a Man, with George Jones. Scary thing is…Most of them predated this album… ---
**Author:** ![scampering\_gremlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@scampering\_gremlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scampering_gremlin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/12 "2001-04-15T14:39:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gunslinger \* > \*\*Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Singing _Little Drummer Boy_. :eek: \*\* And they were good! ::double eek:: ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/13 "2001-04-15T14:44:28Z")
how about ol’ Blue Eyes and Bono? eruf…! My personal fave, though (that actually happened) would have to be Ozzy Osbourne and Kim Bassinger for a Was (Not Was) track. ---
**Author:** ![dodge\_this](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dodge\_this](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dodge_this)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/14 "2001-04-15T15:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dodge\_this \* > \*\*I believe Willie Nelson also did something with Sinead O’Connor…can’t remember the song though, sorry. \*\* Okay, my own question was bugging the hell out of me so I had to go look it up. The Nelson/O’Connor song was Willie’s very own ‘Don’t Give Up’. Another one - not that bizarre, but I thought Trent Reznor’s backup vocals on Tori Amos’ ‘Past the Mission’ was pretty darn cool. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/15 "2001-04-15T17:01:00Z")
Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page, doing a “cover” of Kashmir. I called my uncle Mark back in Ohio just to tell him to turn on the television and watch this, because I couldn’t believe it. And I’m glad someone already mentioned that f’ed up duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Have you seen the SNL parody of that? Jimmy Fallon is playing David Bowie, and when he gets to high-pitched over-song (there’s got to be a musical term for that), he sings, “Why am I doing this? This is messed up…” Elton John and Eminem has got to be right up there, too. ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/16 "2001-04-15T17:43:58Z")
Luciano Pavarotti and Loretta Lynne joined up on an ill-fated, mercifully short-lived revival of “Omnibus.” ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/17 "2001-04-15T20:36:01Z")
The Spice Girls and Pavarotti doing “Viva Forever” ---
**Author:** ![lestrange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@lestrange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lestrange)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/18 "2001-04-15T20:43:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dodge\_this \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by dodge\_this \* > > \*\*I believe Willie Nelson also did something with Sinead O’Connor…can’t remember the song though, sorry. \*\* > > Okay, my own question was bugging the hell out of me so I had to go look it up. The Nelson/O’Connor song was Willie’s very own ‘Don’t Give Up’. > > \*\* No, it was Peter Gabriel’s very own ‘Don’t Give Up.’ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/19 "2001-04-16T05:21:58Z")
The duet itself is not odd, the material is. Dweezil Zappa and Ozzy Osbourne doing a cover of “Staying Alive.” I laughed until I cried. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014/20 "2001-04-16T06:02:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nocturne \* > \*\*The duet itself is not odd, the material is. > > Dweezil Zappa and Ozzy Osbourne doing a cover of “Staying Alive.” > > I laughed until I cried. \*\* You thinks **THAT’S** bad??? Frank Zappa and the London Symphony Orchestra blew my mind! Now then, personally, I thought it was **FANTASTIC**! But, I’ve been told before that I tend to be a Zappa Freak 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-musical-duet-or-collaboration/62014.md?page=2)