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From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Great opening and closing film credits
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 09:30:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 09:30:34 1985
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 >[Watching] "Kentucky Fried Movie".  As far as we were
 >concerned, the movie bombed.  However, as the crowd left
 >during the closing credits, we sat there doubled over in
 >laughter at the performance of the closing music behind the
 >credits.  If I remember correctly, a woman was performing
 >her version of "At the Copa Cabana".  It was an exceptional
 >performance when you consider that she was purposely making
 >mistakes; dropping lines, forgetting words, singing out of
 >key, etc...  To top it off, her pianist did a great job
 >staying with her while making mistakes of his own.  The next
 >time you see the movie around go see it, if only for the
 >closing credits......

Does anyone know the original recording of this song?  I really had the
impression that this was it.  The only mistake I noted was the
restarting of a line, but that line was "It has a meter that is
tricky."  I thought it was a sort of self-illustration.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper