Sylvester Stallone told Jay Leno he will not be participating in the “Rocky” musical coming to Broadway early next year because his voice would turn it into “a haunted theater,” so in typical late-night talk show fashion, Leno showed the audience what Stallone was talking about.
“I sang with Dolly Parton, then I realized, ‘God what a fool I am,’” Stallone said of his “Rhinestone” performance in 1984. “Oh my God, seriously. If you ever want somebody to haunt a ship, get a record of that.”
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Of course, Leno did have a record, and Stallone, of course, acted surprised that it would be used to demonstrate his own point that he should never sing in public again.