Songs with the chorus sung by a bunch of kids

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Bands that ARE a bunch of kids don't count

Captain Sensible 'Happy Talk', Dizzee Rascal 'Dream'
Pink Floyd 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)'
John Lennon 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'
St Winifreds School Choir 'There's No-One Quite Like Grandma'
Martika 'Toy Soldiers', Eminem 'Like Toy Soldiers'

and my personal favourite:

So Solid Crew 'Colder'

what others?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Busta Rhymes- "Get Out"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

smog 'bloodflow'

― mark h, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hefner - The Day Thatcher Dies

(although that's more of an outro or refrain if you want to be picky)

― Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the video version of "Back to School" count? That makes me cringe no end.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Talk Talk - 'Happiness Is Easy'

I absolutely love the contrast between Hollis's cynicism and the kids' absolutely disarming innocence on that.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Of a slightly lesser order of magnificence...

Brian & Michael - 'Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs'

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Clash - "Career Opportunities" on Sandinista. But I think there's only a yelp by Strummer; other than that it's all kids.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem is a wicked wicked man, cos I now can't get the fucking Frog Chorus out of my head...

Sir Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Staging the plaguing of the raised platform - cornershop.

I saw tijinder singh in a pub on his own in stoke newington last summer, and i really wanted to go up and say 'alright mate?' cause he looked dead miserable.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ma$e - Welcome Back!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything by The Go! Team :)

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

wish it could be chrismas every day

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really a bunch of kids, but produced in such a way to sound like them: "Panic", by the Smiths.

― darren (darren), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugsy Malone soundtrack to thread, especially the film version of the whiz-bang closer "You Give a Little Love". Had this one all ready to go for a planned karaoke finale for my friend's bday this week, but we all got too smashed at Zeitgeist to walk two blocks to the karaoke bar. Only turn 21 once.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny (maybe it isn't actually) but Tjinder Singh always seems to look like that. Smog (again) "No Dancing"

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Faith No More "Be Aggressive"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonne Nuit - France Gall
Keith West - Excerpt From a Teenage Opera
Beatles - Bungalow Bill

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Have to say, "Happy Talk" Captain Sensible was not a bunch of kids, but the "Dolly Mixtures", some fully grown girls.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

In return, "Hard Knock Life" Jay-Z

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mannie Fresh - Nothing Compares To Love

I usually hate this shit but this is a cool tune.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

smog 'bloodflow'
-- mark h (goldsound...), January 26th, 2005.

Don't mean to be an anal twat - but aren't they cheerleaders singing on Smog's Bloodflow?

― maracas (maracas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

........a troupe called 'The Dongettes'(?)

― maracas (maracas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oneida "Turn it up (loud)"

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Trick daddy to thread!

ALso, Rubberban Man might count.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I imagining it or didn't the 'We Don't Need Another Hero' theme from Thunderdome have this too?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Badly Drawn Boy:"Year of the Rat". A terrible song my wife listens to all the freakin' time.

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't believe anyone else remembered "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats & Dogs." In addition:

"Dear Mr. Jesus"

"Grocer Jack"

and the coda to Grace Slick's "Seasons."

P.S. I'm pretty sure you're right on "We Don't Need Another Hero," though I haven't heard that since the mid '80s.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Clive Dunn - "Grandad"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

And of course http://www.incorrectmusic.com/projects/images/langleycd.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh! The Carpenters, "Sing" and Three Dog Night, "Black & White"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kanye West - "We Don't Care"
Diplomats f/ Juelz Santana - "S.A.N.T.A.N.A."
P.O.D. - "Youth of a Nation" (towards the end)
The LOX - "We'll Always Love Big Poppa"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the Diplomats one is actually only one kid.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown - "Say it Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)"

― Steerpike, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(I always pondered how James Brown never actually said "I'm Black and I'm Proud" once during that song)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry by Denim.

― Ourwulliewallpaper, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Nas - "I Can"

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Living Years" - Mike & The Mechanics

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Smog: "No Dancing."

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Maypole" from the soundtrack to the wicker man.

I love it - the lyrics go something like...

"....And on that tree
There was a limb
And on that limb
There was a branch
And on the branch there was a nest
And in that nest
There was a bird
And from that bird
A Feather came
And on that feather was.... A BED!

And on that bed
There was a girl
And on that girl
There was a man
And from that man
There was a seed
And from that seed
There was a boy
And from that boy
There grew a man
And on that man there was a grave
And on that grave there was .... A TREE!!!"

― chris sallis, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will (horrible, as I remember)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

How many is "a bunch"?

I mean, one could go with Musical Youth, "Pass the Dutchie."

Or Hanson, "MmmmmmBop."

Or "Hard Knock Life" from the Annie soundtrack.

― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cramps - People Ain't No Good.

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Delgados - No Danger (Single Version)

― strophic (strophic), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The two extra tracks ('Stories Of Johnny' and 'Love Letters') that feature the Westminster City School Choir on Marc Almond's 'Stories of Johnny' album.

Now I have to open a box of cassettes that hasn't been touched in years to find this.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink - "Humble Neighborhoods".

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Carole King, "Alligators All Around"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Dylan, "They Killed Him." (Kris Kristofferson cover).

Terrible.

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cramps - People Ain't No Good.

-- Garibaldianne (kategaribaldiann...), January 26th, 2005.

which version?, if my memory serves me right this is just lux interior singing, isn't it?

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"quand on aura 20 ans en l'an 2001" pierre bachelet.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 27 January 2005 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

bucks fizz" a land of make beleive
bonnie tyler " total eclipse of the heart"
all tracks on erasure " i say i say i say"

― shoplifter united club, Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Stewart's entry is void:

"Bands that ARE a bunch of kids don't count"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Reed - Berlin
Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Department Of Yoof by Alice Cooper

― Bretty, Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember the song.. Lloyd Cole had one .. and he said recently that one of his biggest regrets was having kids sing on the chorus, rahter than having a bunch of his mates from a bar sing the chorus.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the new Gorillaz tune

― bolloxx, Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Faust - I've Got My Car and My TV
Junior Byles - Thanks We Get

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

my answers on this somewhat similar thread-

Songs with kids singing in em

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

KISS - "Great Expectations"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Does "Bungalow Bill" count?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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