When the theme song from Neverending Story was getting a lot of airplay, I thought it was sung by a woman. And I was picturing a hot babe to go with that sensuous, sultry voice.
One day, I walked into a record store, and saw a poster, with the words “Limahl”, “Neverending Story”, and a picture of the ugliest chick I have ever seen in my life. A chick with an Adam’s apple, and a five o’clock shadow.
It was not as bad as The Crying Game, but that is not a nice thing to do to a heterosexual.
Sex advice columnist and radio show host Isadora Alman has an incredibly sexy voice. When I used to listen to her “Ask Isadora” show in the 80s, as a teenager, her voice gave me some pretty lusty thoughts.
When I saw her on a TV show I was surprised to see someone closer to my 2nd grade teacher than the bodacious hottie of my dreams.
What did you expect? He’s very good-looking. Did you expect an ugly man? A black man? A younger man? I’m not being sarcastic; I really want to know, because I like him and have several of his CDs.
I also was surprised to find out Limahl was a dude… Primarily from Neverending Story, but also his time with Kajagoogoo.
Also, I was shocked to discover Victor Brox, who sings Caiaphas in the original album of Jesus Christ Superstar was white - in my brain, he was a black guy (not surprising since Brox is a blues singer, really) - one of my favourite things about the 2000 movie was the casting of Frederick B Owens as Caiaphas, since he finally matched my mental picture!
Not knowing who he was, I actually introduced myself to him at a function, he shyly replied “I’m Van” and a week later a friend told me who he was. I couldn’t believe it.
And I could never approach him when I saw him again.
And he is one of my musical idols.
Actually, that IS a chick singing. Limahl did the music, but Beth Anderson sang the vocals.
I have no idea why, but when I first heard “Get This Party Started” I pictured Pink as a young light-skinned black woman. The first time I saw a poster of her (shot in blue light with heavy shadows), I thought, “Man, that lighting effect makes her look really white. I wonder if it was deliberate.” 
Well I learned something today.
Paul Brandt doesn’t look like he should be able to go as low he can.
The Sensations (of Let Me In fame).
I would have expected this:
Rather than this:
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No, Limahl sang lead, Anderson sang the chorus with him. You may be thinking of the fact that the video subbed in a different woman (Mandy Newton) in Anderson’s place (but still had Limahl doing the lead).
Here’s him performing it live, last year. His voice has changed some (it had been 27 years), but it’s clearly still the same guy singing. (Oh, hey, here’s him doing it live in 1996, on Norwegian TV.)
I always pictured Frank Black as being heroin-thin.
Turns out, he looks a lot more like the gay guy who used to do movie reviews on The Daily Show.
Black, youngish and ultra-hip but not handsome. I was listening to him do the station promos for a defunct standards station in LA for years without seeing a photo of him. It just came as a surprise.
Frank DeCaro. And yes, Frank Black looks a bit crazy, but not as crazy as you might expect him to from his music.
Yeah, it’s weird to see Dennis Day on Jack Benny’s TV show, when he’s playing the same character as on radio, except you can’t hide that by this time, he was a middle aged man. He really was in his early 20s when he first appeared in 1939, and they just stuck with it because he was so good in the role.
An addition to radio actors who’s looks don’t match their voice- Walter Tetley, the actor who played Sherman in the Mister Peabody segments, Leroy on the Great Gildersleeve, and Julius on Phil Harris-Alice Faye was an adult man. How he wound up with that voice is rather disturbing.
When I heard that song from Batman I pictured Seal as more of a Nat King Cole type, not someone who looks like he went face-first through a windshield in an auto accident and got patched up by a really drunken doctor using old inner tubes to replace his skin.
Interviewer Terry Gross.
The first time I heard Robert Randolph and the Family Band, I was taken by the voice of an old bluesman who’d been kicking it around for decades. I thought, why haven’t I been listening to this guy all of my life? Turns out he about 25 years old.
Dude. You just raped my childhood.
I remember, as a teen, calling my older sister into the living room the first time I saw an Eminem video. Neither of us could believe he was white.
A part of me is still convinced that “Laughter in the Rain” is a lesbian love song.
Wow… for 34 years, I’ve thought that song was sung by a woman, and now I see it’s a ugly, skinny Canadian.
