0 points

 

Rod Stewart - Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)

 

Chart peak: 6

Dandy score: 3/10

 

This was a cover of a Tom Waits song from 1976. Like the original, it incorporates the Australian folk song 'Waltzing Matilda' which goes back to the 19th Century.

 

0 points

 

Tina Turner featuring Barry White - In Your Wildest Dreams

 

Chart peak: 32

Dandy score: 4/10

 

The album version of this song featured Antonio Banderas but he was replaced by Barry White for the single release.

 

 

0 points

 

LeAnn Rimes - But I Do Love You

 

Chart peak: 20

Dandy score: 5/10

 

This was featured on the soundtrack to the 2000 film 'Coyote Ugly' but wasn't a hit until 2002.

 

0 points

 

Seal - Get It Together

 

Chart peak: 25

Dandy score: 5/10

 

From 2003, this was Seal's final top 40 single.

 

No real losses with any of those tbh. Tina Turner remains my favourite to have dropped out so far.

0 points

 

Charlotte Church - Just Wave Hello

 

Chart peak: 31

Dandy score: 3/10

 

Charlotte Church was just 13 years old when this was released but already onto her second album. The song was prominently featured in the global campaign for the Ford Motor Company.

 

0 points

 

Rod Stewart - Ruby Tuesday

 

Chart peak: 11

Dandy score: 4/10

 

Ruby Tuesday was recently voted as Buzzjack's fourth favourite Rolling Stones song but Rod Stewart's cover version is shunned in this poll.

 

A lot of nil pointers already for a list of only 80 songs with 30 picks - I think there was a fair bit of quality polarisation in this!

0 points

 

The Squad - Three Lions 2010

 

Chart peak: 21

Dandy score: 0/10

 

A new recording of 'Three Lions' for the 2010 World Cup included Robbie Williams, Russell Brand, the soprano Olivia Safe and the ACM Gospel Choir.

 

0 points

 

Simple Minds - Kick It In

 

Chart peak: 15

Dandy score: 7/10

 

This was the third single taken from Simple Minds' album 'Street Fighting Years'.

 

 

 

0 points

 

Mike Oldfield - Tattoo

 

Chart peak: 33

Dandy score: 5/10

 

Tattoo was one of the tracks on Tubular Bells II, the 1992 sequel to Mike Oldfield's most well known album.

 

0 points

 

Seal - Violet

 

Chart peak: 39

Dandy score: 7/10

 

This was the fifth and final single taken from Seal's 1991 debut album with the eight minute album track reduced to four minutes for the single.

 

ooh I have some chart data on how some of these did in my charts, so a quick mention:

 

This Is Your Land 5/10, Kick It In 4/10, Tattoo 9/10, Three Lions 0/10, Just Wave Hello 2/10, LeAnn Rimes 4/10, Get It Together 9/10 and not listed Seal's flop Human Beings in 1998 is a 10/10.

63. 1 point

 

Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow - Shame

 

Chart peak: 2

 

Mango 1

 

Shame was one of the new songs on Robbie Williams' compilation album 'In And Out Of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990–2010'. It was the first time he had worked with Gary Barlow since he left Take That in 1995.

 

62. 3 points

 

Malcolm McLaren and the McLaranettes - Soweto

 

Chart peak: 32

 

dandy* 3

 

Having been a fashion designer and music manager, Malcolm McLaren decided to release his own album 'Duck Rock' based on music from around the world. Soweto was the second single taken from it.

 

61. 3 points (more votes)

 

Cher - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

 

Chart peak: 26

 

Mango 2, chartjack2 1

 

Although the Walker Brothers' version of this song is the best known, reaching number 1, it was first recorded by Frankie Valli in 1965. Cher's cover was one of the tracks on her twenty-first album 'It's A Man's World'.

 

Cher in the top 65 :magic:

Cher in the top 65 :magic:

:lol: (though I'm sure your comment will confuse people not in the know!)

If Heart and I from Robbie’s Greatest Hits was released as a single it would have scored very high points from me indeed. In fact, if there’s ever a Robbie rate that would be near the top for me.

60. 4 points

 

Barry Manilow - Could It Be Magic (1993)

 

Chart peak: 36

 

Mango 4

 

Inspired by Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in C minor, Opus 28, Number 20, this song was first recorded in 1971 by Featherbed, a group of session musicians which included Barry Manilow who then recorded it as a solo track in 1973 and then reworked it again in 1975. It wasn't a hit in the UK until 1978. This 1993 version was the opening track on his compilation 'Greatest Hits: The Platinum Collection', one year after a cover by Take That had been a top 3 single.