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<p><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41VxAHMdgKL._SX425_.jpg" alt="Hang On Little Tomato"></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Hang On Little Tomato</em></strong> is the second studio album by American band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Martini" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pink Martini</a>, released on October 19, 2004, by their own record label, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Heinz Records</a>. It has been certified gold in France, Canada, Greece, and Turkey.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Little_Tomato#cite_note-Maui-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[3]</sup></a> It was then certified <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_recording_certifications" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">double platinum</a> in France by the UPFI in 2013.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Little_Tomato#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[4]</sup></a> In 2014, it was awarded a platinum certification from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Music_Companies_Association" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Independent Music Companies Association</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Little_Tomato#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[5]</sup></a> denoting sales in excess of 400,000 copies across Europe.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Little_Tomato#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[6]</sup></a> As of October 2013, it had sold 750,000 copies worldwide.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Little_Tomato#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[7]</sup></a></p><h2>Overview</h2><p>As a change from their first album, Pink Martini's second album <em>Hang On Little Tomato</em> features mostly original songs written by band members, and sung in six different languages (French, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Spanish and English).</p><p>The song title is a reference to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt%27s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hunt's</a> Ketchup ad campaign "Hang On, Little Tomato!" in a 1964 issue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Life</em></a> magazine.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Little_Tomato#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[8]</sup></a></p><h2><br></h2><h2>Track Listings</h2><h2>1 Let's Never Stop Falling in Love</h2><h2>2 Anna (El Negro Zumbon)</h2><h2>3 Hang on Little Tomato</h2><h2>4 The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley</h2><h2>5 Veronique</h2><h2>6 Dansez-Vous</h2><h2>7 Lilly</h2><h2>8 Autrefois</h2><h2>9 U Plavu Zoru</h2><h2>10 Clementine</h2><h2>11 Una Notte a Napoli</h2><h2>12 Kikuchiyo to Mohshimasu</h2><h2>13 Aspettami</h2><h2>14 Song of the Black Swan</h2><h2><br></h2><p>Trivia</p><p><strong style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Pink Martini</strong><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> is an American band founded in 1994 by pianist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lauderdale" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thomas Lauderdale</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Portland, Oregon</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. Group members call it a little orchestra that crosses several styles, such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">classical</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">latin</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_pop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">traditional pop</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">jazz</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. The co-lead vocalists of Pink Martini are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Forbes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">China Forbes</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Large" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Storm Large</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">.</span></p><p><br></p><h1><br></h1><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pink_Martini_-_2012_Savannah_Music_Festival.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Pink_Martini_-_2012_Savannah_Music_Festival.jpg/250px-Pink_Martini_-_2012_Savannah_Music_Festival.jpg" alt="Pink Martini - 2012 Savannah Music Festival" height="140" width="250"></a></p><p>Pink Martini - 2012 Savannah Music Festival</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lauderdale" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Thomas Lauderdale</a> has worked in politics since his years in high school in his hometown of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Portland, Oregon</a>. He considered the music at most fundraisers loud and boring. So as a remedy he founded the band Pink Martini in 1994, crossing genres such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">classical</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">latin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_pop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">traditional pop</a>,jazz to appeal to a broad audience. During the following year, he called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Forbes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">China Forbes</a>, one of his colleagues from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Harvard University</a>, and invited her to join the band. Their first single, <em>Sympathique</em>, was released in 1997 and was nominated as "Song of the Year" at the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoires_de_la_Musique" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Victoires de la Musique</a> Awards" in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">France</a>.</p><ul><li>Forbes is monolingual but sings in 15 languages. "All of us in Pink Martini have studied different languages as well as different styles of music from different parts of the world", says Lauderdale. "So inevitably, our repertoire is wildly diverse. At one moment, you feel like you're in the middle of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">samba</a> parade in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Rio de Janeiro</a>, and in the next moment, you're in a French <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_hall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">music hall</a> of the 1930s or in a Palazzo in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Napoli</a>. It's a bit like an urban musical travelogue. We're very much an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">America</a>… the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world… composed of people of every country, every language, every religion" Featuring 10–12 musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout the world.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>