Robert De Niro's Waiting...

Infobox Single
Name = Robert De Niro's Waiting...


Artist = Bananarama
from Album = Bananarama
B-side = "Push!"
Released = February 1984
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = December 1983
Genre = Pop, New Wave
Length =
Label = London Records
Writer = Sarah Dallin
Siobhan Fahey
Keren Woodward
Jolley & Swain
Producer = Jolley & Swain
Last single = "Cruel Summer"
(1983)
This single = "Robert De Niro's Waiting..."
(1984)
Next single = "Rough Justice"
(1984)"Robert De Niro's Waiting..." is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was the second single released from their self-titled second album in 1984.

At the time of the track's release, the members of Bananarama were receiving a lot of criticism from the UK music press, who labelled the trio as a "cover versions" band whose producers and writers controlled their output.Fact|date=September 2008 The "talking Italian" line in the chorus was added by producer Steve Jolley to give the song a more "pop" feelFact|date=September 2008 and Bananarama members Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward "hated" it, but eventually kept the line in to end the arguments about it.Fact|date=September 2008

As a result of the song's popularity, the group eventually met with actor Robert De Niro who contacted them after hearing it.Fact|date=September 2008

The single is one of the group's strongest performing releases, peaking at number three in the UK singles chart (the single to date stands in a three-way tie as Bananarama's highest-charting UK hit). It made a brief appearance on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-five.

Bananarama re-recorded the song with Latin instrumentation on their 2001 album "Exotica".

Siobhan Fahey noted on her official website that the song was originally penned as "Al Pacino's Waiting" but changed to Robert De Niro.Fact|date=September 2008

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