Science Fiction/Double Feature

Science Fiction/Double Feature is the opening song to the 1973 B-movie stage play The Rocky Horror Show, and its memorable 1975 film counterpart The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Like the story, the song is a tribute of sorts to the many B-movies that the film itself parodied. The movie version of the song is most memorable because of the whole song being preformed by a pair of red lips (which were the lips of co-star Patricia Quinn, although the song was sung by Richard O'Brien who wrote the story)

Lyrics

Michael Rennie was ill The Day The Earth Stood Still,
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man.

Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong.
They got caught in a celluloid jam.
Then at a deadly pace It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran.

Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet.
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.

I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills.

Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But When Worlds Collide, said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills, like a:

Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.
By RKO, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.
In the back row, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.