Building a playlist: '80s singles or album tracks that feature a choir of some kind

Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands on Me
Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
Band Aid Artists - Do They Know It's Christmas?
USA for Africa - We Are the World

Give me more.

Talk Talk - I Believe In You

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

It came out in '96, but I'd say they're an '80's band:

The Blue Nile - Happiness

Housemartins -- I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like A Shelter)

The Church — It's No Reason

The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word

Madonna - Like a Prayer

The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word

Tuomas, do you have a handle on this song's remix history? It seems like there's a remix credited to Larry Levan that actually isn't his, but was instead a Walter Gibbons mix. I just spent 10 minutes reading up on it and I know less now than I did before.

Linda Ronstadt - Cry Like a Rainstorm

Kate Bush, Hello Earth

Donna Summer – State of Independence

Talk Talk - I Believe In You

oops, I was thinking of 'Happiness Is Easy'

Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror

(...but 'I Believe In You' has a choir too. guess I was thinking of both - xpost)

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down

Buried in the original mix, highlighted in the extended version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymW7N3cUd0k

Billy Joel - The Longest Time
The Cars - Drive

The Longest Time is, iirc, all Billy doing doowop parts with himself. For the video, he had to teach the band to lip sync it.

I thought that the Will to Power Freebird/Baby I Love your Way Mashup had a choir, but I may be misremembering.

I Wanna Know What Love Is is totally the grandaddy of this category.

mike & the mechanics - the living years

U2--I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Rattle and Hum version

xpost The Longest Time. Completely forgot about Billy doing all the vocals himself.

A substitute then: Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town.

The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word

Tuomas, do you have a handle on this song's remix history? It seems like there's a remix credited to Larry Levan that actually isn't his, but was instead a Walter Gibbons mix. I just spent 10 minutes reading up on it and I know less now than I did before.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, July 4, 2015 5:01 PM (Yesterday)

Okay, so after some detective work, it appears the track that's always been credited as Levan's remix is actually the original version from the 1982 private press LP that the church released to its own congregation, the one that was discovered by Walter Gibbons and that Levan later incorporated into his dj sets. He didn't do any kind of remix to it, though. In fact, that version isn't even The Joubert Singers, but is actually The Celestial Choir of First Baptist Church of Crown Heights. When they recorded a version in 1985 for Next Plateau, they did so under the name The Joubert Singers, but the mix was completely different and honestly not as good as the original (which is the one everyone seems to know and is mis-credited to Levan).

Phew!

Sorry, I didn't notice your post until now, but yeah, I had to do the same detective work for the disco poll, and came to the same conclusions. Except that the re-recorded version is not "the everyone seems to know and is mis-credited to Levan". The version most people know is the original version (which has a piano-led, stripped-down arrangement), and that's the one that's usually credited as a "Larry Levan remix", or even a Larry Levan production, even though it wasn't produced by either Levan or Gibbons.

This is the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sncDrO7YIgU

(Apparently it was actually produced the choir leader(?) Phyliss Joubert and a guy named George Rodriguez, who had mixed some other 80s disco/boogie tunes, by artists like Karen Silver and Jocelyn Brown.)

The re-recorded version was produced Tony Humphries and was released on the 1985 single. It has a less minimal, more mainstream 80s boogie sound with synths and all (still quite good though).

This is the re-recorded version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MsPSSKAMY

Sorry, I misread your post, you did actually say that the original version is the one usually mis-credited to Levan. Sorry about that.

Also, for whatever reason the original version of this tune was not released on any official CD before 2012, and the original single had become quite pricey as well. Back in the day I had to buy a bootleg "Larry Levan's Greatest Hits" comp just to get this one tune. Thankfully a French label reissued in 2012, so it's much easier to get it now.

But I think part of the reason why this tune's history became so obscure was because most people had just heard it as a part of a DJ set, and didn't have a copy of the original (where the credits are clearly stated, and there's no mention of Larry Levan).

Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister

Eurythmics - Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
George Michael - Father Figure
Carly Simon - Let The River Run
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - Time Of My Life

Hear N' Aid "Stars"

Sisters of mercy - this corrosion

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDIYOiQUi2s

Dare i mention...

Foreigner - I want to know what love is

Madness - Wings of a Dove.

"Whoa-Whoa .. "

Peter Gabriel - "Biko"

The album version of the song is book-ended by a recording of the South African song "Senzeni Na?" as sung at Biko’s funeral.[2] The single version is bookended by "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", also sung at Biko's funeral. One line of the lyrics reads "Yehla Moya" which in Xhosa means "Come Spirit".

Paul Simon - "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"

Yeah was gonna say loads of Graceland era Paul Simon.

Bob Dylan - "They Killed Him"