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Is there a single song in history with kids singing on it that has been any good?
Another Brick in the Wall is fine until the kids start.
Obvs
Sold millions, so must be good according to STW logic.
Anything off Matilda, Oliver and Les Miserables sounds ok..
Similarly Annie
Kriss Kross - Jump
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Michael Jackson could belt out a tune when he was a nipper.
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is the best kids' voices song of all time evah.
RHCP’s aeroplane?
I assume you’d consider Althea & Donna not to be kids.
"Ok you lot,.....Take it!"
"Well we wish it could be Christmas every day....."
This from the awesome clipping. will go down well with you lot...
Kids start at about 1:30
I'm sure there's a few more hip hop ones - didn't Jay-Z use/sample Hard Knock Life in an early track?
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is the best kids’ voices song of all time evah.
This. Great song
Struggling with this one..
Mmm-bop was quite jolly?
Here ya go squarez, you must like this
"Catastrophe Anthem" by Clark on his album "Death Peak".
KMD - Who me?
Cool G Rap and Polo - Erase Racism
Here's a 16 year old girl belting out one of my favourite cover versions of a song ever....
I'm not a massive fan of the rest of her songs but she nailed this one.
She was like, 16, iirc. She touched me last year, she's not 16 anymore, but it made me happy 😀
Good singing, but irritating as hell every Christmas.
And to think he got all the success off the back of The Snowman but he didn't actually sing it for the film! The kid that did had already broken his voice by the time it was being re-done for commercial use, so they got Aled to do it.
"Never Forget", Take That, unashamed fan
Admittedly limited involvement from the kids
I'm using one of Joss Stone's mum's old bar stools as a planter in my back yard.. and I chopped up another one and used it for floorboards in my camper van.
Which in my book, pretty much makes me one of the beautiful people.
This song has a "message" 🙂
Ooh yeah.. that's a corker
Big A Little A by Crass. Probably one of my favourite songs ever
Mike Oldfield - On Horseback
Big A Little A by Crass
Excelllent! Hmm..wonder if I've still got the 7"...
Don't think this really counts as it's ranting not singing, but it makes me laugh every time I hear it. Kid on the beginning & end:
I've got to be honest, I'm not sure he's actually singing on this one
Gary Numan track 'My Name is Ruin'. His 11 (at the time, now 13) year old daughter Persia on backing vocals.
How odd, my colleague asked me exactly that yesterday (and cited Brick in the Wall as a good'un).
I give you:
"You can't Always get What you Want"
Surely you can't beat Every Sperm is Sacred
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">I give you:</span>
“You can’t Always get What you Want”
Is that a different one from the Rolling Stones mentioned earlier?
It's clichéd to be cynical at Christmas - HMHB.
School's Out.
Theme from a teenage opera?
Not Career Opportunities......
I’ll just leave this one right here; her third single, but it didn’t get to the top of the charts until she was a year older...
Then there’s this one, written when she was thirteen, recorded three years later:
These siblings were all teenagers when they made their first recordings in their home-made studio, something like 11, 14 and 16:
Brian and Michael, the only reason I can remember who Lowry was, or was it Valerie Singleton John Noakes Peter Purrs
How could I have forgotten Let’s Eat Grandma?! 2 superbly bonkers albums from these 2. The first was when they were 14 or 15
Video features some serious MTB action 🙂
from the new one, now theyre a bit more growed up
This was just for the video version but I likes it
Good that, Northwind 🙂
Cry little Sister from the Lost Boys. Superb!
Jackson Five, "I Want You Back" - obviously.
individual kids are an exception. It's the squawking 'choirs' that I hate
This is good (well, I think so....)
Right at the end ..but this sounds good to me ..
I normally hate kids singing, but the bit they do on this I think is beautiful.
Not singing but this is ace......
e ya go squarez, you must like this
live at Manchester Opera house was ace
Does crying kind count?
Squawking kids? Check. Pretty good? Check.
thanks DezB. I had strop and stormed off the thread.
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is the best kids’ voices song of all time evah.
Pedant alert.
it was actually the London Bach choir singing on that classic track, not a bunch of kids.
Bill Wyman's pic of the choir on the day of recording below
Was it? Damn, you're right to be pedantic, however, if those sopranos at the start aren't young boys I'll erm, well, I'll be very surprised!
So, clipping. has to take the crown then 😆
XTC with "Dear God"
I found some more for ya! I own some of these 🙂
This is the best one by erm, Sex Mob
Adamski
Danny Brown
https://youtu.be/Nkh4wazRMi0
The Faint (their worst song!)
https://youtu.be/it9Jysyg6BE
Panic! At The Disco - (they start near the end)(it's horrible)
https://youtu.be/LMXrtYpEMFI
The Smiths - Panic!
Done.
EDIT: Oooh Dear God, great shout. And Playground by the very same, think its Holly Partridge singing on that.