Pop and rock arrangements – 1980–2000

Ain’t Nobody Chaka Khan

SSA

Level I

“Ain’t nobody loves me better, makes me happy, makes me feel this way”

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All Around the World Lisa Stansfield

SSAAA with alto solo · SSATB · SSAATB · SSAAB · SATTB

Level IV

Lisa Stansfield’s first smash hit

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All I Wanna Do Sheryl Crow

SSA with solos and piano or guitar

Level III/IV

The catchy song that made Sheryl Crow famous

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Back to Square One Bob Zimmerman

SSATB · SATTB

Level IV/V

A very funky composition by Bob Zimmerman, originally written for Montezuma’s Revenge

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Black or White Michael Jackson

SSAA with piano · SSAB with piano

Level II

Michael Jackson’s complaint against racism

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Bottom Zap Mama

SSAA with solo · SATB with solo · SSAB with solo · TTB with solo

Level I/II

The earth is going down the drain, but no one seems to notice

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Brand New Day Sting

SSAA with piano · SSAB with piano

Level III/IV

The grooviest piece by Sting with challenging rhythms

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Busy Vocal Ease

SSATB · SATTB

Level IV/V

A hectic song about the pressure of the busy lives we lead today

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Celebration Kool & the Gang

SSATTB

Level III

A hit with a lovely combination of soul and disco

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Cornflake Girl Tori Amos

SSAA with double bass

Level III/IV

Tori Amos is singing about the venom between groups of girls in school

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Crazy Seal

SATB with alto solo · SATB with tenor solo · SSSAA with combo · SSAB with tenor solo · SSAB with alto solo

Level IV

The first hit by Seal

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Don’t Stop Believin’ Journey

SSA

Level III

Power ballad by Journey

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Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic The Police

SSATB with piano · SATTB with piano · SSAB with piano

Level II

A powerful song

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Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears

SSAB with piano · SATB with piano · SSAA with piano

Level II/III

A cheerful-sounding synth-pop hit with a dark undertone about power and control

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Fred Astaire The Mo

SATB · SSA with piano · SSAB

Level III

A great little tune by a Dutch eighties band, highly danceable

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Freedom George Michael

SATTB with alto solo · SSATB with alto solo · SSATTB · SSAA with solo and piano

Level IV

Funky arrangement, a wonderful final song or encore in an a cappella program

Goldmine Take 6

SSATB

Level IV/V

The Take 6 piece, but made easy so that mortals are capable of singing it

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Hazy Shade of Winter Simon and Garfunkel

SSAA with piano or guitar · SSA with piano

Level III/IV

This arrangement is based on the cover of The Bangles

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I Need to Know Marc Anthony

SAB with tenor solo and band

Level I

Delicious Latin pop

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I’ll Be There for You Friends

SATB with alto solo · SSATB · SATB with tenor solo · SATTB · SSAB with solo

Level IV

The energetic theme of “Friends”

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I’m Outta Love Anastacia

SAT with solo and band

Level I

An absolute bus-stopping disco funk dancer

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Kiss Prince

SSATB with tenor solo

Level III

Probably the most catchy Prince song

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Let Me Entertain You Robbie Williams

SSAA with piano or band · SSAB with piano or band

Level III

A nice rock song from the 90s

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Material Girl Madonna

SSATB with solo · SSAAB with solo

Level IV

An arrangement in a 1960s Latin style

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Nah Neh Nah Vaya con Dios

SATB with piano · SSAB with piano

Level II/III

A cheerful song in a gypsy style

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Name and Number Curiosity Killed the Cat

SSATB · SATTB

Level IV

...Hey, how ya doin’? So sorry you couldn’t get through!...

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Opposites Attract Paula Abdul

SSATTB with piano

Level III

The delicious hit of Abdul, arranged with the men versus the women

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Part-time Lover Stevie Wonder

SSA · SSAB

Level I/II

Stevie Wonder sings about cheating

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Sign o’ the Times Prince

SSATB with vocal percussion

Level IV

The most impressive Prince song, in the Montezuma’s Revenge arrangement

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Sunday Bloody Sunday U2

SATB with solo · SSATB · SSA with solo

Level III

This rock song from the eighties in a dance like arrangement

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Under Pressure Queen and David Bowie

SSATB · SATTB · SSAA with piano

Level IV

Queen and Bowie sing about the desperate unemployed man in the street

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Uptown Girl Billy Joel

SSATB with piano or band · SATB with piano or band

Level II/III

This arrangement follows Billy Joel’s original, but now the melody is in the alto

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Virtual Insanity Jamiroquai

SSATB with solo · SSAAB with solo

Level III/IV

Jamiroquai is really super funky

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Wannabe The Spice Girls

SSATB · SSAA with bass guitar · SATTB

Level III

The first Spice Girls hit, with their energetic girly rapping

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Way to Your Heart Soulsister

SSATB · SATB with alto solo · SATTB · SSAB with alto solo

Level III

The delicious hit of the Belgian band Soulsister

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name Cheers

SSATB with solo

Level III/IV

A funky arrangement of this lovely eighties song

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You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette

SSATB · SATB with alto solo · SATTB · SSAB with alto solo

Level IV

Raw pop from a nearly hysteric Alanis Morissette

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You’re the Voice John Farnham

SATB with band · SSAA with band · SSAB with band · SSATTBB · SSATTB · SSAATB

Level II/III

The grand complaint against war by John Farnham

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