The song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," performed by Mitch & Mickey in
A Mighty Wind, was written by McKean and his wife, Annette O'Toole, as a love song to each other after the movie was conceived. Christopher Guest asked McKean and O'Toole to write the duet. He almost turned it down after the McKeans performed it. Jamie Lee Curtis convinced her husband (Guest) to use it in the film.
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2003A Mighty Wind
(writer: "Old Joe's Place", "The Good Book Song", "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow", "Just That Kinda Day", "Never Did No Wanderin'", "Fare Away", "Potato's in the Paddy Wagon", "A Mighty Wind")
1989The Big Picture
(writer: "The Whites of Their Eyes" / performer: "The Whites of Their Eyes")
1987Light of Day
(performer: "Rude Mood", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy")
1985Clue
(performer: "For She's a Jolly Good Fellow" - uncredited)
1985David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival
(TV movie)
(performer: "You Wouldn't Believe Our World", "We Go To Rio", "Bosc, Bosc, Bosc", "We Hide Our Pride")
1984This Is Spinal Tap
(writer: "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight", "Gimme Some Money", "Big Bottom", "All The Way Home", "Hell Hole", "Cups And Cakes", " Listen To The Flower People", "Rock & Roll Creation", "Heavy Duty", "Stonehenge", "Sex Farm", "Jazz Odyssey", "A Grateful Nation" / performer: "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight", "Gimme Some Money", "Big Bottom", "All The Way Home", "Hell Hole", "Cups And Cakes", "Heartbreak Hotel", " Listen To The Flower People", "Rock & Roll Creation", "Heavy Duty", "Stonehenge", "Sex Farm", "Jazz Odyssey", "A Grateful Nation")
[describing how he and wife Annette O'Toole go about writing a song's music and lyrics] When we've done it - and this sounds like I'm talking about sex, doesn't it? - we've done it every way you can.
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Trivia:
The song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," performed by Mitch & Mickey in
A Mighty Wind, was written by McKean and his wife, Annette O'Toole, as a love song to each other after the movie was conceived. Christopher Guest asked McKean and O'Toole to write the duet. He almost turned it down after the McKeans performed it. Jamie Lee Curtis convinced her husband (Guest) to use it in the film.
See more »