Liam Neeson’s “Bare Gun” finish credit tune was a last-minute ‘shock addition’

Pamela Anderson isn't the one one exhibiting off their singing chops in The Naked Gun.

Liam Neeson steps behind the mic — his first time, apparently, in knowledgeable recording studio, as he says mid-song — for the top credit monitor "My Candy Beth." The ballad is a tribute from his character, Frank Drebin Jr., to a "very particular woman," as he sings: Anderson's Beth Davenport. Over the course of the movie, the 2 strike up a relationship as he investigates her brother's dying.

The tune, director Akiva Schaffer reveals to Leisure Weekly, was a "last-minute thought." He was getting ready to indicate a closing edit of the film to some 90 family and friends members — however one factor was lacking.

"I all the time knew I wanted to do one thing within the credit, and at last we had been picture-locked and we had been within the edit room and I simply [recorded the song] into my laptop computer, put it within the film, and two hours later we screened it and it did rather well," he explains. "Then I changed [my vocals] with Liam… I'm very happy that we obtained that in on the buzzer, that we snuck in there."

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Neeson says it was certainly a "shock addition" — one closing gag he was down for.

"I assumed, yeah, positive," the actor remembers. "It's not alleged to be Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett, so we had a little bit of enjoyable with it."

How can one not with lyrics like: "Beth, ooooh / Prime-shelf curves, and brains as well / And boots that will high my mind's top-10 listing / Aboot boots, and the curvy brains that purchased them / Additionally, breasts / My candy Beth."

If the foolish lyrics weren't sufficient, Frank turns into distracted in the course of the recording session — harking back to Lionel Richie and Diana Ross' "Countless Love" — taking part in round on the bass drum and guitar he finds within the music studio.

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"My Candy Beth" isn't the primary time Neeson has sung for a film — he additionally did in 1986's Duet for One.

"A lot to my embarrassment, I sang to Julie Andrews," he says. "I performed Julie Andrews' lover, and I'm a third-rate British membership singer. I sang Tom Jones' basic 'Inexperienced Inexperienced Grass of House' in entrance of Julie Andrews. Terrified, f‑‑‑ing, terrified."

Take heed to Neeson sing "My Candy Beth" above.

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