Tom Tom Club is Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, both also known for being bandmembers of Talking Heads.-Biography:...

's first album, released in 1981, containing the UK

United Kingdom

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 hit singles "Wordy Rappinghood," which reached No. 7 in June 1981; "Genius of Love

Genius of Love

"Genius of Love" is a 1981 song by Tom Tom Club from their eponymous debut album.-Song:"Genius of Love" was Tom Tom Club's second single. Although the album had not been released in North America, over a hundred thousand copies of the single sold as imports from Island Records's UK, at which point...

," which reached No. 65 in October of the same year; and "Under the Boardwalk," which reached No. 22 in August 1982. When released in the U.S., "Genius of Love" peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. Both "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love" topped the U.S. dance chart.

The album was re-released on May 19, 2009, as a part of a two-CD deluxe package with the band's second album, Close to the Bone.

Side 2

1. "As Above, So Below"
2. "Lorelei" (Remix)
3. "On, On, On, On..."
4. "Under The Boardwalk
   Under the Boardwalk
   "Under the Boardwalk" is a hit pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964.-Premise:The lyric describes a tryst between a man and his beloved in a seaside town, who plan to privately meet "out of the sun" and out of sight from everyone else under a...
   
   " (Kenny Young
   Kenny Young
   Kenny Young is an American songwriter who has been an active writer, artist, and producer from 1963 to the present. His most famous song was "Under the Boardwalk," co-written with Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964 and by The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and many other artists;...
   
   , Arthur Resnick)

CD version

1. "Wordy Rappinghood" – 6:27
2. "Genius of Love
   Genius of Love
   "Genius of Love" is a 1981 song by Tom Tom Club from their eponymous debut album.-Song:"Genius of Love" was Tom Tom Club's second single. Although the album had not been released in North America, over a hundred thousand copies of the single sold as imports from Island Records's UK, at which point...
   
   " – 5:34
3. "Tom Tom Theme" – 1:24
4. "L'Elephant" – 4:51
5. "As Above, So Below" – 5:22
6. "Lorelei" – 5:05
7. "On, On, On, On..." – 3:33
8. "Booming and Zooming" – 4:35
9. "Under the Boardwalk" – 5:46
10. "Lorelei" (Remix) – 6:17
11. "Wordy Rappinghood" (Long Version) – 6:42
12. "Genius of Love
    Genius of Love
    "Genius of Love" is a 1981 song by Tom Tom Club from their eponymous debut album.-Song:"Genius of Love" was Tom Tom Club's second single. Although the album had not been released in North America, over a hundred thousand copies of the single sold as imports from Island Records's UK, at which point...
    
    " (Long Version) – 7:26

Personnel

• Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...
  
  : Guitar
• Monte Browne: Guitar
• Tyrone Downie
  Tyrone Downie
  Tyrone Downie is a Jamaican keyboardist/pianist who is most known for his involvement as a member of Bob Marley and The Wailers. He studied at Kingston College and joined the wailers in the mid-1970s, making his recording début with the band on Rastaman Vibration, having previously been a member of...
  
  : Keyboards
• Chris Frantz
  Chris Frantz
  Chris Frantz is an American musician and record producer. He was the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.-Career:...
  
  : Drums, Co-Producer
• Uziah "Sticky" Thompson: Percussion
• Lani Weymouth: Vocals
• Laura Weymouth: Vocals
• Loric Weymouth: Vocals
• Tina Weymouth
  Tina Weymouth
  Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club .-Profile:Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. Weymouth was a cheerleader in high school...
  
  : Bass, Vocals, Co-Producer

• Steven Stanley
  Steven Stanley
  Steven J. C. Stanley , is a Jamaican audio engineer, record producer and keyboardist who has worked in the reggae, dub and rock music genres since 1975, most notably with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and Black Uhuru....
  
  : Co-Producer, Engineer
• Benji Armbrister: Engineer
• Kendal Stubbs: Engineer
• James Rizzi
  James Rizzi
  James Rizzi is an American pop artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He currently resides and works in a studio/loft in the SoHo section of Manhattan.-Education and Technique:...
  
  : Cover art