Hey, what's that sound: children's choirs and kids singing

From St Winifred's School Choir to Hanson, are children's angelic voices really the most hated sound in pop?What is it? Children! Singing! Er, obviously. Singing kids have surfaced in one-off singles by many bands since Pink Floyd's 1979 youth-refusenik anthem Another Brick in the Wall Part II. The next year, St Winifred's School Choir proved that choirs of little angels could get codgers to prise open their wallets with the Christmas number one smash There's No One Quite Like Grandma. By 1983 w...

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