What's your favourite piece of "fictional music"?

I remember watching this when I was a kid. "Glub, Glub, Glub" sticks to my memory. Is that really Richard Dreyfuss singing?

 

I'm a little confused about the criteria, but if I interpret right, all the songs from the recent "Star Is Born" should qualify, right?

If so - bingo bango, sugar in the gas tank:

 

Paranoia Ceilings, composed by Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Paul McCartney in London, 1966.

 

Hollywood's idea of psychedelic rock

 

Glenn Campbell? Another one I wasn't aware of the credited vocals. I've always liked Twitch. In my early teens a buddy and I re-worded Twitch to match another friend's family home. I won't share those words here as it was a shot at their living arrangements.

 

That pre-dated the movie by four years and was even a Top 10 hit in real life in late 1974.

 

The band was called Ming Tea, featuring Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet.

 

Another from "ASIB" 2018:

 

I am aware of that. It was attributed to a fictional artist "Alice Bowie", was part of a "fictional" skit on the album, and was a spoof song, but I don't want to start arguing semantics.

 

I'd like to know where the info that Campbell sang "The Twitch" came from. I did some poking around and found semi-rumors that he did it but no actual confirmation...

 

Anything by these guys.

 

The Rutles, of course.

For me, songs like "I Must Be In Love," "Ouch," "Cheese And Onions" and "Piggy In The Middle" sit alongside their source material just fine.

 

Never Let Me Go by Judy Bridgewater.

The track was referenced in Kazuo Ishiguro's book of the same name, but no actual song existed. When they made the film version in 2010, they needed to write, record, and design cassette art for this track, as it plays a central role in the film. I thought they did a pretty damn convincing job. I had no idea the song wasn't from the 50s/60s until long after I saw the film and read the book. More on the song's creation here.

 

Voiced by Howard Morris, a.k.a. Ernest T. Bass.

 

From the movie In The Heat of The Night

"Foul Owl On The Prowl"

 

The first thing that comes to mind is Victor Banana "Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron" which is the soundtrack to a storyline in the comic book "Eightball" by Daniel Clowes. It came out as the 10 issue serialized story wrapped up in 1993, and was published in full. All of the songs are about scenes or characters in the story. One of my favourite albums of all time.

 

Sure - it was written by the characters in the reality of the movie, so it counts.

On a broadly related note: I wouldn't count anything by the Monkees - they straddled the fictional/reality line too much, and of course like Pinocchio they did become real...

 

More Rutles - "I Must Be In Love"...coulda been a hit in '64:

 

I'd have to say Julian Cope's novel "131" takes the "Most Ambitious Use of Fictional Music" award. In preperation for (and during the writing of) the book, which featured several fictional bands, he recorded whole albums/eps as these fictional bands to serve as inspiration and to release in the real world.

The One Three One Doorway – Music from One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel by Julian Cope

Several of these have been released in limited quantities, while others may or may not have been recorded in the first place.

 

As something of a fan of wrestling, there have been some good themes over the years, but a track that stands out is With My Baby Tonight, which was presented as a hit by Jeff Jarrett who had a country singer gimmick at the time. In reality it was written by Jim Johnstone and sung by Jarrett's manager The Roadie (later Road Dogg).

It has always stuck in my mind as it sounds like a perfectly credible 70s country-rock song, although from the mid 90s.