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I'm not having "Amarillo" either - at least not by Tony Christie, the pride of Sheffield.
Lady in Red - Chris De Burgh
Tainted Love - Soft cell - must be their version as I like Imelda May's version
and from Frozen - Let it go could quite easily get into that list
However, that musicians union rule about bands re-recording their songs to mime to was almost universally ignored in the end. There are many anecdotes about how bands got around this, I think it was Elvis Costello who told the story about their manager taking the sound engineer to the pub while the band "recorded" their backing track which, of course, just involved them making a copy of the original studio recording.
I never really understood what the point was anyway. I thought the whole idea was to help session musicians who generally just got paid for the one recording. But, with a few exceptions, by the 1970's most bands were playing their own instruments on the original recordings anyway, so I don't see how making the band re-record a song helped anyone.
Of course the worst scenarios were where it was a solo artist and they had to wheel out the TOTP orchestra who almost without exception made a hash of the whole thing. The worst example I can think of was when Althea and Donna were at number one with "Uptown Top Ranking". The orchestra manfully tried to replicate the original track the girls sang to (which I think was basically Sly and Robbie) and it was toe curling awful.
I think what we didn't appreciate at the time that guys like John Carter, Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Tony McCauley, etc were really clever musicians who had learned their trade, and what we heard in 2-3 minutes was the end result of a lot of hard work. it's just too easy for folk with no musical ability to produce a song these days.
Kissing with confidence by Will Powers
Country House Blur
Roll with it Oasis