Baby love, my baby love, I need your Family
First preferences…
Has there ever been a more popular trio in pop history than The
Supremes? No wonder when a trio of our pols got together last
week – Tony Abbott, Chris Pyne and John Anderson – they decided to
release a cover of a Supremes song, Baby Love.

How odd of the compilers, then, of the Political Top 40 at Rehame not
to list them together. (Being Rehame they must have worked out
they can charge more if they put the three separately or something.)

Abbott, Pyne and Anderson weren’t quite singing completely in tune last
week, but they were certainly singing from the same songbook.
Together, they should have at least made number three on the charts
with a combined total of 1,352.

Baby Love was the song of last week and is still dominating the
airwaves even now. And look at the tributes and follow ups it
sparked. Barnaby Joyce, Sharman Stone and Steve Fielding wouldn’t
have made the top 20 if it wasn’t for their new version of the
Holland/Dozier/Holland classic.

Still, it is a little odd that in all their “Baby, baby” this and that the trio left out these lines:

“Baby, baby, ooh ’til it’s hurtin’ me

“’Til it’s hurtin’ me…”

And how strange of the three to state so categorically that they never,
ever intend to release a version of “He’s Having Your Baby”.

Still, that’s showbusiness. Or showbusiness for ugly people, as Pyne likes to call it.

Who’s hot, who’s not: The Rehame Top 40 Pols

Rank

 Name Mentions Mentions
Last Report		 Rank
Last Report
1

 John
Howard		 2082 3499 2
2 Mark
Latham		 1614 3593 1
3 Tony
Abbott		 756 160 25
4 Brendan
Nelson		 740 47 52
5 Peter
Costello		 512 805 8
6 Andrew
Bartlett		 479 277 17
6 Barnaby
Joyce		 479 713 9
8 Alexander
Downer		 468 860 7
9 John
Anderson		 364 164 23
10 Lyn
Allison		 325 134 28
11 Robert
Hill		 319 426 13
12 Kevin
Rudd		 263 641 10
13 Stephen
Smith		 260 1122 6
14 Chris
Pyne		 232 13 108
15 Ron
Boswell		 214 124 33
16 Sharman
Stone		 200 61 45
17 Mark
Vaile		 182 141 27
18 Kevin
Andrews		 180 192 20
19 Warren
Truss		 157 124 33
20 Steve
Fielding		 153 8 130
21 Helen
Coonan		 146 33 67
22 Wayne
Swan		 133 1353 3
23 Jenny
Macklin		 119 348 15
24 Bob
Brown		 106 95 38
25 Ian
Campbell		 100 113 36
26 Nick
Minchin		 81 22 85
27 Chris
Evans		 79 207 19
28 Philip
Ruddock		 70 163 24
29 Bronwyn
Bishop		 69 6 145
30 Martin
Ferguson		 67 20 90
30 Meg
Lees		 67 16 100
32 Julie
Bishop		 65 78 40
33 Peter
Andren		 64 23 83
34 Dick
Adams		 56 44 55
35 Eric
Abetz		 49 42 57
36 Kay
Patterson		 48 178 22
37 Brian
Greig		 46 18 95
37 Natasha
Stott Despoja		 46 55 49
39 Bruce
Baird		 45 4 151
39 Ian
Macdonald		 45 70 43
39 Tanya
Plibersek		 45 288 16