Great post, rickegee. You can't go wrong with Elton, and although this isn't one of his best tracks (none of his later work is), the huge handheld fluid master shot of Robert Downey lipsyncing really makes it.

Isn't real.

He's lipsyncing. You can see it in several places. What he was doing it singing to his version of it...and this is just the vocal from the recording played without the background music. I mean, this is the EXACT vocal that's on the original recording.

Yes, it's very beautiful and haunting. But no, he wasn't singing this live acapella.

well it's not really live, it's lipsync.

These Dudes run Collegehumor.com and did an Awesome Lipsync video a few months back...

Followed by 10,000 very lame videos

Odd that they're lipsyncing to the album version of the song, since this *long* predates the music video. Cool song anyways.

I wasn't trying to push limits or anything. I thought the very beginning with this scary guy standing up in the buff was a little much, but didn't think too graphically over the line. The main thing I wanted to share was the song, but that freaky-deaky guy was an added bonus I discovered when I first found the video (I first heard it on the radio). That's cool though. I've reposted the song reincarnated as a funny lipsync: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9111

The reason the title was lopped off is that the quotes were not converted to " (with htmlentities) so the html for such a title would look like title="Gunther - "My Ding Ding Dong"" causing the second " to end the string in the eyes of the user agent. Easily fixed.

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