Top 100: Songs sung by adults that feature a children's choir

1. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2
2. Manu Chao - Merry Blues
3. Pato Banton - Go Pato
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
5. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
6. Guts - Want It Back
7. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
8. Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes
9. King Creosote - Bluebell, Cockleshell, 123
10. Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band - Sunshower
11. Martika - Toy Soldiers
12. Radiohead - 15 Step
13. Justice - DANCE
14. The Smiths - Panic
15. Cornershop - Staging the plaguing of the raised platform
16. Ride - I don't know where it comes from
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane
18. Smog - No Dancing
19. Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War v. 2

Here's a spotify list of what I've got so far:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/1jTwU1FUfeUPMrGE2hhwdF

Missing: Smog, Radiohead.

20. Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man

21. Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (duh)

21. Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (duh)

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive)

not a children's choir?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can't_Always_Get_What_You_Want

London Bach Choir not children.

Although 'Ride - I don't know where it comes from' was based on the RS song and that one does feat a children's choir.

Hmm, the soprano voices sound qualitatively like boy sopranos though. Wonder if there's a definitive source saying there weren't children singing with the choir?

Red Hot Chili Peopers-Aeroplane

Bob Dylan-They Killed Him

Pat Benatar-We Belong

Aeroplane was already mentioned.

21. Bob Dylan-They Killed Him
22. Kanye West - We Don't Care
23. Pat Benatar - We belong

Hmm, the soprano voices sound qualitatively like boy sopranos though. Wonder if there's a definitive source saying there weren't children singing with the choir?

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive),

Don't know how official it is but this guardian article reassures it's not a children's choir.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/12/children-choirs-singing

24. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

I think they're both awful so I'm not including them on the 'top 100' whatever that means but but other songs with children's choir I remember right now:

Passion Pit - Little Secrets
Terrorvision - Tequila

25. Cramps - people aint no good

I can't find any credits that confirm this: Sonic Youth - Little trouble girl? Is it a children's choir or just Kim's vocals overlayed?

"Little Trouble Girl" definitely doesn't have a choir on it

BTW, my sister-in-law was the "alien" in the video for it!

Another one which makes a great use of a children's choir:

26. Gotan Project - Rayuela

"Little Trouble Girl" definitely doesn't have a choir on it
BTW, my sister-in-law was the "alien" in the video for it!

― beamish13

That's really cool :) Isn't the opening chorus (and the subsequent chorus) sung by a choir? I'm hearing like 3 or 4 voices in there. What I can't define if it's children singing it or a Kim Deal recording of the same part several times.

27. Talk Talk - Happiness Is Easy.

28. Denim - It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry
29. Denim - Grandad's False Teeth

30. Take That - Never Forget

31. The Clash - Career Opportunities (Sandinista Version)

Pretty sure the children's choir on "Panic" is actually Morrissey's voice treated in some way. Or perhaps I'm thinking about "Bigmouth Strikes Again"

32. Talk Talk - Time it's Time

33. Mew - Sometimes Life Isn't Easy

Xxpost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_(The_Smiths_song)

Nope, it says they're schoolchildren (doesnt specify which one tho)

34. Gucci Mane - Lemonade
35. Trick Daddy - I'm a thug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

36. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

37. Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will

Not really children I think it might be a high pitch version of the original Gaye song but sounds like children

Circle research - stop listen to your heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv8y6lrCOi0

Great thread. A couple obvious ones that haven't been mentioned

School's Out by Alice Cooper
Youth of the Nation by P.O.D.

Is the choir in "Move Along" by The All American Reject's a children's choir? I dunno.

Delgados - no danger - kids choir mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIKx0HRSCuk

Christian Rich, DWNTWN & Now Faith Apostolic Church - Better To

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)

as well as the shitty remake by Neil Diamond

The Church — 'It's No Reason'

46. Juca Chaves - take me back to piaui

47. Tokyo Jihen - Souretsu (Live at Budokan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDotMg5_cA4

48. múm - Weeping Rock, Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSi_6DdPqxU

(the liner notes credit the 'la la las' to 'Girls from Austurbæjarskóli', but they are obviously a ghost choir. I love how the song ends with their collective inhalation of breath)

50. Kid Creole And The Coconuts - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down
51. The Housemartins - Bow Down

(both featuring St. Winfreds School Choir, of "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" infamy)

(though that was a few years earlier so presumably it wasn't the same actual children)

Lou Reed - The Kids
(sort of)

49. Soul II Soul - Get a Life

53. Big Boi - Shoes for Running

54. Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful

55. Alan Parsons Project - To One In Paradise

56. Genesis - Supper's Ready

57. Sia - Cheap Thrills

58. Talk Talk - I Believe In You

59. Madonna - God Control

60. Thom Yorke - Twist

61. John Cale - There Was A Saviour (alternatively, one of the other songs from the Falklands Suite of Words For The Dying)

62. Pastor TL Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir - Like A Ship... (Without A Sail)
- maybe the best thing listed
63. Gaz Coombes - Wounded Egos
- not so much

64. Austra, Cecile Believe - Mountain Baby

65. Neil Young - The Way

66(6). Elena Tsagrinou • El Diablo

The first single from our new album ‘We Will Always Love You’ (ft. Blood Orange) dropped a year ago today.

Tony recorded the backing vocals with The Australian Boys Choir / Auburn Uniting Church , Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/mBuvrYNB0P

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) February 18, 2021

I suppose ABBA’s “I Have A Dream” is the designated elephant in the room, I will play along

oh yah i guess mine was

67. avalanches - we will always love you

James Brown: "Say It Loud-I'm Black And I'm Proud"

69. Paul Janz - Believe in me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PucGFRAWIrE

To answer a question from 2015, "Little Trouble Girl" has Kim Deal, Lorette Velvette and Melissa Dunn on b-vox. Also, doesn't it show up in (and maybe was written for) Alison Anders' movie "Grace of My Heart"? It would explain the Shangri-Las quote.

70. Lost boys soundtrack / Gerard McMahon - Cry Little Sister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMLMV6E4CM

71. There's no choir or other vocalists credited, but I would count the voices that come in singing something about "le petit soldat" in "A Life (1895-1915)" by Mark Hollis.

72. "Grace Darling" by the Strawbs (you can hear the kids being coached before the song begins).

73. Kenny Loggins - I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdEvuQE6t5c