Editor’s Note: I always find it interesting the songs that Miss M has turned down or had to withhold due to whatever reason. Here is an article that talks about two songs written for Midler, but ended up being on the Tom Tom Club’s latest record. I’ll post the 2 songs if there is enough interest….
The album has been about two and a half years in the making “We weren’t even thinking at the time of doing a new Tom Tom Club record,” Tina explains. “We were working on a retrospective, like a greatest hits because so much of our stuff was out of print. That got killed, legal business, and we’d done these two songs which were originally written for, of all people, Bette Midler. “Who Feelin It” and “Happiness Can’t Buy Money” we started for Bette. She came by and she liked the songs but they weren’t finished, I mean instrumentally they were what you hear on the album, but the lyrics weren’t finished because we had been trying to get her back into song writing. We said ‘come on, we’ve got to get you to write’ but she just didn’t have the time, so we said ‘OK, we’re going to finish them up for ourselves.’ When the retrospective project was killed by lawyers we said well they’re such good songs, what we’ll do is we’ll make a new Tom Tom Club record and we’ll start with these two.”
Who Feelin’ It (Songwriters: Christopher Frantz / Tina Weymouth)
Who feels it, knows it
Who loves it, shows it
Who feels it, loves it
Who knows it, shows it
Wicky-wicky, here comes my genius
Killin' me wicked with his stylus
Slap it on the turntable, DJ
Won't you play for me Marvin Gaye?
Invisibl Skratch (n) Piklz
Beastie Boys, thrills and tickles
Beat Junkies, make it funky, please
Fela Kuti is no Zombi!
Scratch it up, here comes my genius
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious
Nasty licks, they are serious
'The Message, ' delirious!
Do Boy's a genius chameleon
Afrika Bambaataa holds dominion!
Fugees on the scene like a Felini dream
Salvation's here ?la Al Green!
Who feels it, knows it
Who loves it, shows it
Who feels it, loves it
Who knows it, shows it
Do you wanna get jiggy with a genius?
Hardest workin' man in the business
Shufflin' grooves from the underground
Nobody move, must be James Brown!
Wu Tang, mix it up sinuous
Big Baby Jesus is a genius
My Manu D'Bango
Rockin' the mic like Chango!
Ya, ya, wo, wo, wo. . .
Sticky-sticky finger on a fader
A-slippin-and-a-slidin with the Raida
Here is transportation to heaven
Props to the chops of the X-men!
Wally Badarou is a genius
DJ Babu, spontaneous
Bernie Worrell, a visionary
Play for me Lee Perry
Tra la la la la! Tra la la la la!
Pass the Peas to the JBs!
Whatcha gonna do with a broken heart?
Sip Cristal, burn up the chart
Whatcha gonna do when they put you down?
Move to the tip, groove underground
Whatcha gonna do when you miss your mark?
Chill out, choose a brand new start
How does it feel to be back on top?
It's good, un-huh, and you don't stop!
Who feels it, knows it
Who loves it, shows it
Who feels it, loves it
Who knows it, shows it
Who feels it, knows it
Who loves it, shows it
Who feels it, loves it
Who knows it, shows it
Oops! Yo' mama!
Ya, ya, wo, wo, wo. . .
No one can sing quite like Otis Redding!
Whatcha gonna do with a broken heart?
Sip Cristal, burn up the chart!
Whatcha gonna do when they put you down?
Move to the tip, groove underground!
Whatcha gonna do when you miss your mark?
Chill out, choose a brand new start!
How does it feel to be back on top?
It's good, un-huh, and you don't stop!
Ya, ya, wo, wo, wo. . .
Who feels it, knows it
Who loves it, shows it
Who feels it, loves it
Who knows it, shows it
Who feels it, knows it
Who loves it, shows it
Who feels it, loves it
Who knows it, shows it
Happiness Can't Buy Money(Songwriters: Christopher Frantz / Tina Weymouth)
Up and down, the people wanna bounce to the funky sound
You got yo' radios blarin' and the deejays flarin' all over town
'Nuf respect is just what you gonna get when you jam and wind
But happiness can't buy money
On and on the party keeps rockin' on 'til the break of dawn
And the people next door must be wonderin' what it is we're on
If it makes you happy, you can party on 'til the end of time
But happiness can't buy money
So make my day
Don't be passé
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Everybody agree, happiness is free, so whatcha gonna do
Say goodbye to the old cliché's, say hello to the new
You can turn it on, whatever gets you goin', it's a state of mind
But happiness can't buy money
So make my day
Don't be passé
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Everybody, hold on, relax
This is just like in the movies
Everyone will be a shooting star
And all will make lots of money
Money, money, money, money, money, money
Happiness can't buy money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Come on, get real, come on
Give me money
Come on
Give me money
So make my day
Don't be passé
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
Happiness can't buy money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
So what's the deal?
Give me money
Come on, come on, get real
Give me money
Happiness can't buy money
