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Subject: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: whistledog on 11/02/08 at 1:00 pm

Year 1990 1990 1990 1990 1991 1991 1991 1991 1991 19921992 1992 1993 1993 1993 1993 1993 1994 1994 1995 1995 1995 1995 1996 1996 1996 1997 1998 1998 1999

Song Title Downtown Train This Old Heart of Mine <w/ Ronald Isley> It Takes Two <w/ Tina Turner> I Don't Want to Talk About It <New Version> Rhythm of My Heart The Motown Song Broken Arrow People Get Ready <w/ Jeff Beck> My Town <w/ Glass Tiger> Your Song You Are Everything Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Mathilda) Ruby Tuesday Shotgun Wedding Have I Told You Lately? Reason to Believe <Live> People Get Ready <Live> All For Love <w/ Bryan Adams and Sting> Having A Party You're the Star Leave Virginia Alone This Lady Luck So Far Away Purple Leather <w/ The Scottish Euro '96 Squad> If We Fall in Love Tonight Da Ya Think I'm Sexy <w/ N-Trance> Ooh La La Rocks Faith of the Heart

United Kingdom #10 #51 #5 - #3 #10 #54 #49 #33#41- #6 #11 #21 #5 #51 #45 #2 - #19 - - #56 - #16 #58 #7 #16 #55 #60

Canada #1 #2 - #19 #1 #1 #2 - #8#25#56 - - - #1 #3 - #1 #12 - #1 #4 - #8 - #32 #15 #29 - #24

United States #3 #10 --#5#10#20--#48- - - - #5 #19 - #1 #36 - #52 - - - - #54 - #39 - -




UK: 24 (14 Top 40)
CANADA: 20 (19 Top 40)
US: 13 (10 Top 40)


Rod Stewart qualified for Canadian Content on 4 songs:
'Broken Arrow' was written by Robbie Robertson
'Rhythm of My Heart' and 'This' were written by Marc Jordan/John Capek
'My Town' being a Glass Tiger song

At the time of release, 'All For Love' didn't qualify for CANCON, but since the rules have been amended, the song would now qualify as it was co-written by Bryan Adams


♦ The vocals on the N-Trance version of 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy' were only in sample form from Rod's original 1978 hit.  He was given full credit, and the song qualifies as a bona fide hit in his discography

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: Zeb on 11/06/08 at 12:43 pm

I would have to say "Rhythm of My Heart" by far!  That song came out when I was in early grammar school.  Every time I hear the words I imagine John Paul Jones on the Bonhommme Richard. 

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: Marty McFly on 11/06/08 at 3:28 pm

I'm not a big Stewart fan, but yeah I like "Rhythm of My Heart" and "The Motown Song" too (that one had a cool Simpsonslike animated video), they still sounded kinda 80s and catchy.

Even though, like I said I'm not much into him beyond a few songs, I do have some nostalgia for those songs now. He was one of the veteran "AC pop" singers in the '90s (along with, say Sting and Bryan Adams) that managed to be current with softer stuff, and I do kinda miss that.

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: midnite on 11/09/08 at 2:32 pm


I'm not a big Stewart fan, but yeah I like "Rhythm of My Heart" and "The Motown Song" too (that one had a cool Simpsonslike animated video), they still sounded kinda 80s and catchy.

Even though, like I said I'm not much into him beyond a few songs, I do have some nostalgia for those songs now. He was one of the veteran "AC pop" singers in the '90s (along with, say Sting and Bryan Adams) that managed to be current with softer stuff, and I do kinda miss that.


Yeah, I enjoy Rod's 70's and 80s stuff and that first album from early 1990s (with Rhythm of My Heart and Downtown Train).  Never got into the 90s or 00s stuff.  He sounds like "Grover" from Sesame Street to me.

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: Tanya1976 on 11/10/08 at 10:27 pm

I love "Downtown Train" like crazy.

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: whistledog on 11/10/08 at 10:32 pm


I love "Downtown Train" like crazy.


Here's some interesting trivia for you.  'Downtown Train' was written and first recorded by Tom Waits in 1985.  Patty Smyth then did a cover two years later and became the first to hit with it, charting at US #95 in 1987

Rod's version features Jeff Beck on slide guitar, and Beck also appears in the video.  Rod stewart was the vocalist for The Jeff Beck Group in the late 60s

:)

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: coqueta83 on 11/10/08 at 10:34 pm

The only 90's Rod Stewart songs I like are "Rhythm Of My Heart" and "Downtown Train".

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: Tanya1976 on 11/10/08 at 10:58 pm


Here's some interesting trivia for you.  'Downtown Train' was written and first recorded by Tom Waits in 1985.  Patty Smyth then did a cover two years later and became the first to hit with it, charting at US #95 in 1987

Rod's version features Jeff Beck on slide guitar, and Beck also appears in the video.  Rod stewart was the vocalist for The Jeff Beck Group in the late 60s

:)


Haha, yeah I knew it was a Tom Waits cover. But, I didn't know Patty did a version as well.


Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: nally on 11/18/08 at 11:45 am

I'm not really a fan of his, but I didn't mind listening to his cover of "So Far Away", and "If We Fall In Love Tonight," which probably hit the Adult Contemporary charts. I was an avid listener of Casey Kasem's American Top 20 countdown in '96 and I remember those two songs very well.

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: nally on 01/13/22 at 10:42 pm

I am also partial to his rendition of "This Old Heart Of Mine" (which is more of a re-recording than a cover, since it features Ronald Isley, who originally recorded it with his band The Isley Brothers in 1965; plus, Rod actually first covered the song in 1975 for his album Atlantic Crossing...which means the 1989-90 rendition is a re-recording for both performers!). :)

Subject: Re: Rod Stewart - 90s Hits

Written By: MarkMc1990 on 03/15/22 at 8:07 pm

The US missed out on It Takes Two with Tina Turner :(

I love Downtown Train, although I admittedly like the Patty Smyth version even more for its energy.

My favorite Rod Stewart song, though not from the ‘90s, is Forever Young. They used that in a vhs tape my third grade class got with montage of photos from the year as one of the background songs. Always loved it. And actually, the version they used might have been the 1996 acoustic re-recording, come to think of it!

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