Tin Tin

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This article is about three musical groups. For the Belgian comics character, see The Adventures of Tintin.

Multiple musical groups use (or have used) the name TinTin (or Tin Tin):

  1. An Australian pop/rock band
  2. A British pop band
  3. An American progressive rock band from Colorado

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[edit] Australian group

Tin Tin was an Australian pop/rock band. The band was formed in 1966 by Steve Groves and Steve Kipner, who named the band after the popular cartoon character Tintin. Through a friendship with Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, who would later produce both of their singles and both of their albums, the duo was signed to a one-album contract with music producer Robert Stigwood's organization. Maurice produced their 1969 debut album and played on about half the tracks, which bore a marked resemblance to the tight harmonies of the Bee Gees. The LP sold poorly until the dreamy ballad "Toast and Marmalade for Tea", with lead vocals by Kipner was belatedly released a single in the spring of 1971, hitting #20. The song featured These four lines of nursery rhyme lyrics are repeated five times over eerily distorted piano and synthesizer backing. The song gradually builds in intensity adding acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, a string orchestra, and finally brass instruments, and is now Tin Tin's best-remembered song.

After the single's unexpected success, Tin Tin toured with the Bee Gees on their 1972 American tour. Further releases sold poorly and the duo broke up shortly afterward. Toast, while seldom played on oldies radio today, is regarded by some critics as one of the finest and most ambitious singles by a one hit wonder, and a late psychedelic classic.

After Tin Tin disbanded in 1973, Kipner went on to write and produce songs for Chicago, Olivia Newton-John, Christina Aguilera, 98°, and Dream.

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[edit] Singles

  • "Toast and Marmalade for Tea" (#20, 1970)
  • "Is That the Way" (1971)

[edit] British group

An unrelated British pop group of the same name was formed in 1982 by Stephen Duffy (formerly of Duran Duran and subsequently to form The Lilac Time) and several other musicians; they had a dance hit with "Kiss Me".

[edit] American group

Another unrelated group of the same name was formed in 2002 by Sean Merrell, Patrick Selvage, and Neal Williams in the town of Boulder, Colorado. The band formed with an aim to create music which was more to the out-side of what they had been hearing on the radio and in the burgeoning Denver underground scene. Their mutual abilities to write as a unit -- along with the help of some rough song ideas -- enabled them to compose a series of songs which were recorded and produced by Keith Cleversley at his Playground Studio in Chicago, IL. Reception of that album (self-titled) was quite good upon its release, and with the assistance of an alliance of independent music stores TIN TIN was able to reach a humble Nielsen SoundScan count of over a thousand -- all with very little promotional effort otherwise. At an independent record store in their area had total sales reach nearly three-hundred units in a period of less-than two years; that number did not come from a band which played a lot of shows in the area or had good P.R., but rather as the most desirable selection out of a great number of rotating listening-stations. Those numbers enabled a local/independent record label which the band is affiliated with to open communications with a major label in hopes of acquiring distribution. Most journalists (very favorable reviews were offered by Skyscraper Magazine, Westword, and many other nationally-acclaimed publications) engaged the band as an entity with great potential; when the debut record was recorded the band had only been together for 6 months, and certainly had their sights set much higher.

A year passed, and their song writing process intensified and concentrated to the point where they were producing numerically less songs, yet their compositions were more melodic and temporally dense. The band has planned to release their sophomore effort in late 2007; a record which promises to be a radical departure from their pop-tinged debut.

In 2006 Williams relocated to his home state of Georgia to pursue his solo project, Possible Selves, and released his debut self-titled album before his departure.

[edit] Members

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[edit] Albums

  • Tin Tin (2004 from Sao Bento Music)

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