<P> Cher's "Walking in Memphis" subsequently made a rapid UK chart descent dropping out of the Top 100 after a #68 ranking dated 9 December 1995 to return to the UK Top 100 charts dated December 20, 1995 (#97) and January 6, 1996 (#100), the single evidently boosted by Cher's performance of the song on ITV's The Caballe Family Christmas special broadcast Christmas Eve 1995 . It would be Cher's follow - up single to "Walking in Memphis": "One by One", which would provide the singer with her most significant UK hit off It's a Man's World, as "One by One" spent two weeks at #7 in January 1996 with a four - week Top Ten tenure . Although never issued as a single in North America, "Walking in Memphis" did afford Cher a minor Canadian hit in the autumn of 1996, the album cut receiving enough radio airplay to reach #60 on the 100 Hit Tracks chart in RPM magazine . </P> <P> Despite being a comparative failure for Cher, "Walking in Memphis" would be included in the set list for the singer's 1999 - 2000 Do You Believe? Tour, the first Cher tour subsequent to her recording of the song: in introducing the number Cher would wryly overstate how low was the impact of her take on "Walking in Memphis", first citing Marc Cohn's original as "a huge hit", then her own version as "a huge bomb...not exactly in the infomercial category, but very close to it" (referencing her early - 1990s stint as spokeswoman for several infomercials which Cher would tell EW in 1995 she'd realized was "just devastating to my career".) "Walking in Memphis" has since remained a staple of Cher's live shows . </P> <P> The episode of the paranormal Fox - TV series The X-Files entitled "The Post-Modern Prometheus" - broadcast November 30, 1997 - concluded with a portrayal of Cher performing "Walking in Memphis": the scene was written in expectation of Cher herself making a cameo, Cher having expressed an interest in guesting on the series, but on learning the nature of the proffered role she declined it - "(quote) I wanted them to ask me to come on and act - then they just wanted me to come on and sing" - instead authorizing her recording of "Walking in Memphis" to be heard while celebrity impersonator Tracey Bell - groomed as Cher and filmed in longshot or from the back or overheard - ostensibly performed the song onstage . (Cher would express regret for not appearing in the episode herself: "Had I (foreseen) the quality of (it) I would have done it in a heartbeat .") </P> <P> AllMusic called this cover rousing . Jim Farber stated that it "must be heard to be believed ." </P>

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