Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth as a side project from Talking Heads. Their best known songs include the UK top 10 hit "Wordy Rappinghood" and the US top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from their 1981 debut album, and a cover of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" that reached the UK top 30. == History == === Formation and debut === Originally established as... [more on Wikipedia]
Top songs: #1: Suboceana - #2: Wordy Rappinghood - #3: Sunshine and Ecstacy - #4: Genius of Love - #5: Under the BoardwalkDate  | Title | Points | Charts Peaks | Links | Comment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1981-1982 | Tom Tom Club | 170 | MP3  | ||||
| 1. | 06/1981 | 82 | US 105 • US dance ✫1 • UK 7 | MP3 | charted as Wordy Rappinghood / Genius of Love in US dance charts [novelty] [Sire 50067] written by Adrian Belew, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Monte Browne, Tyrone Downie & Uziah "Sticky" Thompson | |||
| 2. | 09/1981 | 57 | US 31 • US dance ✫1 • US R&B 2 • UK 65 | MP3 | charted as Wordy Rappinghood / Genius of Love in US dance charts [Sire 49882] written by Adrian Belew, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Monte Browne, Tyrone Downie & Uziah "Sticky" Thompson | |||
| 3. | 08/1982 | 31 | US dance 31 • UK 22 | MP3 | [Warner 29930 (Sire)] written by Kenny Young & Arthur Resnick | |||
| 2. | 1983 | Close to the Bone | 20 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 08/1983 | 20 | US 106 • US dance 4 • UK 82 | MP3 | [Sire 29549] written by Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Alex Weir, Wally Badarou, Tyrone Downie, Raymond Jones, Rupert Hine, Steve Scales, Lani Weymouth & Laura Weymouth | |||
| 3. | 1988-1989 | Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom | 104 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 10/1988 | 5 | UK 79 | MP3 | written by Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz | |||
| 2. | 04/1989 | 100 | US dance 4 • US alt. 10 | MP3 | written by Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz & Laura Weymouth | |||
| 4. | 1992 | Dark Sneak Love Action | 75 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 06/1992 | 75 | US dance 9 • US alt. 15 | MP3 | written by Chris Frantz, Bruce Martin, Mark Roule & Tina Weymouth | |||
Adrian Belew • Alex Weir • Bruce Martin • Chris Frantz • Lani Weymouth • Laura Weymouth • Mark Roule • Monte Browne • Raymond Jones • Rupert Hine • Steve Scales • Tina Weymouth • Tyrone Downie • Uziah "Sticky" Thompson • Victoria Clamp • Wally Badarou
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