Doctor Spin was a pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 used by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

 and record producer

Record producer

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  Nigel Wright for their 1992 hit

Hit record

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 single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 "Tetris". Their identities were not widely publicised at the time. In particular, Lloyd Webber was (and still is) more widely-known as a composer of musical theatre

Musical theatre

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"Tetris" itself was an early 1990s Eurodance

Eurodance

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 cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of the most famous tune in the Game Boy

Game Boy

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 version of the game Tetris

Tetris

Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

(which was in turn an instrumental

Instrumental

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 version of the Russia

Russia

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n folk song

Folk music

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, "Korobeiniki

Korobeiniki

"Korobeiniki" , also known as the Tetris song is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells of an incident between a peddler and a girl "haggling" over a price, with the details only being said in metaphor...

"). Tetris was the free game bundled with the Game Boy, Tetris was popular at the time, and the single reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart

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Doctor Spin itself may be considered a one-hit wonder

One-hit wonder

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 ("Tetris" was their sole entry on the UK Singles Chart, and there is no evidence of any other releases under that name). However, Lloyd Webber and Wright themselves have worked together on many other successful projects. Wright produced Bombalurina's 1990 hit cover of "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" is a novelty song telling the story of a shy girl wearing a revealing polka dot bikini at the beach, who in the first verse is too afraid to leave the locker where she has changed into her bikini; in the second, she has made it to the beach but sits...

" (which Lloyd Webber was also involved with), and has subsequently worked on a number of Lloyd Webber's cast album

Album

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