"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte," Patti Page (1965)

It's pretty... and pretty terrifying

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David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is a standard-bearer for films that put lovely ballads in a creepy context. There’s a double whammy with Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams,” first when it soundtracks a bizarre lip sync and then when it plays under this lipstick-tinted madness. Then of course there’s the opening scene, where Bo…