Robert De Niro's Waiting...

"Robert De Niro's Waiting..."
Single by Bananarama
from the album Bananarama
B-side"Push!"
Released20 February 1984 (1984-02-20)[1]
GenreSynth-pop[2][3]
Length3:43
LabelLondon
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jolley & Swain
Bananarama singles chronology
"Cruel Summer"
(1983)
"Robert De Niro's Waiting..."
(1984)
"Rough Justice"
(1984)
Music video
"Robert De Niro's Waiting" on YouTube

"Robert De Niro's Waiting..." is a song written by Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, Steve Jolley, and Tony Swain, recorded for English girl group Bananarama's eponymous second studio album. Produced by Jolley & Swain, it was released as the album's second single on 20 February 1984. It namechecks American actor Robert De Niro. The single is one of the group's strongest-performing releases, peaking at number three in the UK Singles Chart. It made a brief appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 95. Billboard ranked the song at number 74 on their list of the "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time".[4]

An extended version of the song is available on the 12-inch single. The B-side of both 7-inch and 12-inch singles is a song called "Push!". The version of "Push!" on the 12-inch single is not extended but preceded by an unlisted alternate version of the brief track that would be called "Link" at the end of side one of the Bananarama album. Bananarama have re-recorded "Robert De Niro's Waiting..." twice, in 2000 for the G-A-Y compilation and the next year another new re-recording was included on their eighth studio album Exotica (2001).

  1. ^ "New Singles". Music Week. 18 February 1984. p. 18.
  2. ^ Graeme Virtue (14 November 2017). "Bananarama review – hi-NRG poignancy as pop trio return for first proper tour". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  3. ^ Billboard Staff (10 July 2017). "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time: Critics' Picks". Billboard. Retrieved 17 May 2024. One of the more subversive girl-group songs of the 1980s, "Robert De Niro's Waiting" distracts with a breezy of-the-moment synth-pop...
  4. ^ "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time: Critics' Picks". Billboard. Retrieved 11 July 2017.