As far as I know or can remember, the credits of only two features have credits that are sung offscreen — Pasolini’s The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) and Preminger’s Skidoo (1968).

Pasolini’s credits come at the beginning of his feature, Preminger’s at the end of his. Pasolini’s credits are much wittier than Preminger’s.

Rather than conclude that it’s only coincidental that these two films appeared only two years apart, I’m more partial to the possibility that Preminger and/or his writers saw Pasolini’s film and then decided to have its own credits sung. But it’s also worth noting that the mid-1960s was an unusually free and reckless period when the frivolous notion of setting credits in the form of sung lyrics would have been especially feasible. [12/15/2023]