When Joliet Jake and Elwood are trying to put The Band back together in The Blues Brothers, a group of former band members has put together a lounge act (Murph and the Magictones), complete with amplifiers upholstered in thick red shag carpeting.
In one searchlight beam he sneaks around, a Vegas performer is singing The Love Boat theme.
In Airplane II: The Sequel, Stryker is trying to escape from prison and is dodging the guards' searchlights. Mars Attacks! ends with Tom Jones singing "It's Not Unusual" in his stage-act garb, which is a model for many instances of this trope but Tom Jones is a good singer. Downtown", in the movie That Thing You Do!. Freddy Fredrickson, singer of the lounge hit "Mr. Give 'Em Hell, Malone: Frankie the Crooner spends his time badly singing to either a disinterested club crowd or the senile residents of a retirement home. In Lost in Translation, Bob hooks up with a female lounge singer though shes not noticeably bad at her job. In The Stinger, he force-feeds the final batch to his assistant, who is transformed into a lounge singer. 
A subplot in Ernest Goes to Camp concerns a Lethal Chef with Mad Scientist tendencies trying to perfect a dish called "Eggs Erroneous" (which doubles as high explosives).
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