Elisabeth Shue

Loved her in Hamlet 2. Loved her in Leaving Las Vegas. And LOVED her in Adventures In Babysitting. Yes folks, Ms. Elisabeth Shue and the kids she's babysitting get stuck in a Chicago blues club while being chased by gangsters, and they hafta SING their way out! Her character comes up with a good ditty on the spot: "Babbysittin' Blues."

A rare track from a truly 80's moment.

Here's a tease...

UPDATE: 11/22/15

Looks like back in 2013, AIBS got a blu ray release in 6 Track stereo!!! Even the "Babysitting Blues" track on the LP soundtrack release recording is in mono, so now I got a job to do: extract the audio from the blu ray and convert it into an mp3. Off to work!

Kate Capshaw

Another Mrs. Spielberg found her way onto a movie soundtrack when Kate Capshaw did a Mandarin version of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. (Love the dress!) There seems to be some discrepancy about whether or not she's dubbed, but a little research soon proved fruitful. Apparently, the translation goes something like this:

Yi wang si-i wa ye kan dao
Xin li bian yao la jing bao jin tian zhi Dao 

Anything goes!

But, also apparently, her pronunciation isn't the best. To quote a recent Yahoo! message board:

I just listened to it but had you not mentioned chinese I would have thought she was singing gibberish. I can't recognize anything at all. :\  (Source: Native Chinese)

So my theory is that, if the pronunciation of the Mandarin ain't all that good, it's gotta be Kate. Right? Otherwise, they'd have gotten a singer with a native Chinese tongue; and imagine Kate trying to lip sync to that! :P

Amy Irving

Indelibly making her mark on popular culture as Sue Snell in the DePalma directed Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel, Amy Irving went on to stage work, an Oscar nomination and marriage...to Steven Spielberg no less. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the former Mrs. Spielberg supplies the singing voice of Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner supplied the speaking voice). "Why Don't You Do Right" was also covered by Sinead O'Conner only a few years after Amy gave us her rendition: a restrained, trained, jazz vocal approach.

Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals sings the Hell out of "One Girl In A Million" from the 1991 neo-noir flick Blood & Concrete. She sings in a low, earthy register accompanied by Ukranian oompah sounds not too dissimilar from bands like Gogel Bordello. Raw.

Ms. Beals (along with Pam Grier) sings tracks on the L Word soundtrack, but these posts are strictly about movie releases.