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UK Chart Run: 58-23-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-4-9-18-38-61 (15 weeks)

Just missing out on a spot in the final is Cher with her 1991 #1 The Shoop Shoop Song. It's done pretty well to get this far though as the song is definitely of its time and isn't one you hear too often these days, aside from of course when Dragon performed it recently on the Masked Singer! I wasn't a huge fan of this at the time but I can definitely see the appeal in retrospect, a fun song that just about stays on the right side of the cheese line and a worthy top 3 finish.

Review by PCF:

"Cher is fabulous. This track though isn't as fabulous as most of her back-catalogue, and came from the film "Mermaids" and the catchy video introduced this song to another generation of kids and reminded older music fans of a song that didn't get a lot of oldies airplay in the UK. Originally released as a flop by Merry Clayton in 1963 under the sensible title It's In His Kiss, it was covered in 1964 by Betty Everett in an identikit clone version, and went to the top of the US charts using the gimmicky title Shoop Shoop Song. The Merry Clayton version is better, and Cher's version is also a carbon copy of it, albeit speeded-up a bit with Cher in full foghorn mode. In between, British folk/soul singer-songwriter Linda Lewis, the first black female British singer-songwriter artist to have well-deserved success, had a brief one-off diversion into disco during The Year Of Disco, 1975, when she covered the song under it's original title, a frantic, amazingly high-pitched romp that deserves to be remembered more than it is for a top 10 hit. For most of the UK public in 1991 this was the 'original' version. Cher, however, is the one everyone remembers, being as it was a retro monster smash. I reached saturation-point about two months into it's run and haven't really gone back to it. You want classic 90's Cher, go to Believe, One By One or many others...."


Soooooooooo that leaves us with just the two songs left! Yes, it's the final round! Some, including myself, thought we'd never actually reach this point! But here we finally are, time for Buzzjack to choose it's favourite from 1991...

Remember to vote for your FAVOURITE track in the final... go go go go go!