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"Genius of Love" is a 1981 hit song by American new wave band Tom Tom Club from their 1981 eponymous debut studio album. The song reached number one on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart , and was performed by Talking Heads (the group from which Tom Tom Club originated) in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense .
Tom Tom Club is the debut studio album by American new wave band Tom Tom Club, released in 1981, containing the UK hit singles "Wordy Rappinghood", which reached No. 7 in June 1981 and "Genius of Love", which reached No. 65 in October of the same year.
Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and as a side project from Talking Heads. [3] 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.
Built on a savory sample of Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love,” Carey’s “Fantasy” foreshadowed her deep dive into hip-hop. You can hardly find a track that features Carey sounding more ...
Byrne leaves the stage at one point for a costume change, during which the Weymouth–Frantz-led side-band Tom Tom Club perform their song "Genius of Love". The Tom Tom Club performance allows Byrne to don his "big suit", an absurdly large business suit that he wears for the song "Girlfriend Is Better".
After Carey began writing songs for her new album Daydream, she decided to include the hook from the Tom Tom Club song "Genius of Love" into an up-tempo song. Afterwards, Carey and Hall began incorporating the sample into the lyrics and melody she had already produced. [ 4 ]
That same year, Brown teamed with Harrell to make "Genius Rap", a well-received record which was one of the first hip-hop records to use a sample of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". [ 1 ] The pair ended their professional relationship in 1987, [ 1 ] but Mr. Hyde continued recording with Profile Records, recording the solo 12", "The Witch" b/w ...
"The Holiday" came out over 18 years ago, on November 29, 2006. It tells the story of two women from England and Los Angeles who switch homes for the holidays.