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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.
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18 Sep 2026
“Organically grown”: the songs that sound like Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz’s entire record collection - Far Out Magazine
Read source ↗31 Jul 2026Tom Tom Club’s Six Studio Albums Collected In Let There Be Love Box Set - noise11.com
Read source ↗23 Jul 2026I’m in Heaven: Tom Tom Club Collect (Sort of) Complete Albums for New Box Set - The Second Disc
Read source ↗15 Jun 2026How Two Members of Talking Heads Hit Big With a Side Project Single Indebted to Hip-Hop - American Songwriter
Read source ↗10 Jun 2026Tom Tom Club Announce Career Spanning 7LP & 6CD Box Sets - rhino.com
Read source ↗23 May 2026Every song on the ‘Finding Emily’ soundtrack - NME
Read source ↗17 May 20265 One-Hit Wonder Love Songs From The '80s That Still Have Us Head Over Heels - grunge.com
Read source ↗3 Apr 2026Release Round-Up: Week of April 3 - The Second Disc
Read source ↗2 Apr 20263 One-Hit Wonders From the 1980s You Didn’t Know Were Sampled by Other Songs - American Songwriter
Read source ↗17 Oct 2025‘Wordy Rappinghood’: How Blondie inspired the Tom Tom Club to spin off from Talking Heads - Far Out Magazine
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