"Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo" Sophia Loren (1961)

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Usually, actors make lousy singers. And singers usually make lousy actors. And often, what's beautiful visually needs a LOT of studio gimmickery to pass for acceptable aurally.

There are exceptions.

Sophia Loren looked gorgeous AND could carry a tune, as she did in this 1961 classic.

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"A Cosmic Telephone Call" Kali Bahlu (World Pacific/Liberty, 1967)

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"Shake Baby Shake" Sodsai Chaengkij (1968)

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Sodsai Chaengkij was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s....in Thailand. She was also one of the few Asian pop stars who recorded pop songs with the original English lyrics, as she covered this 1958 Jesse Lee Turner classic... 

"Bras On 45" Ivor Biggun & The D-Kups (Dead Badger, 1981)

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In 1981, a Dutch group called Stars On 45 made a horrifying disco-fied medley of Beatles songs that actually was a worldwide smash hit in June of that year (don't laugh, it actually went to #1 in the US.)

This is still the longest song title ever for a 45 RPM single at 41 words....

Bear in mind, these weren't the original Beatles recordings stringed together (EMI would NEVER have allowed that), but the Stars On 45s were pretty good imitators (or at least significantly better than anything you hear at the karaoke bar down the street) and they did fool quite a few people.

The success of Stars On 45 made them ripe for parody, which UK TV personality Ivor Biggun   did with "Bras on 45". Ivor Biggun's parody on reached #50 in the UK and never charted in the US, but it was widely played on The Dr. Demento Show.