Hang On Little Tomato by Pink Martini

Hang On Little Tomato, Pink Martini's second studio album, came out on October 19, 2004, on Heinz Records, the Portland, Oregon band's own label. Pianist Thomas Lauderdale founded the group in 1994 as a little orchestra, and it plays like one, wandering from classical to Latin to jazz to the kind of traditional pop your grandparents slow-danced to, with Paloma Griffin's violin, Phil Baker's double bass and Martin Zarzar's percussion keeping the whole cocktail-hour caravan on the move.

It's gloriously out of step with the rest of the record racks, and it found its crowd anyway, most of all in Europe. It went gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey, later double platinum in France, and its worldwide tally stood at 750,000 copies by October 2013. The title track is the song from it that turned up on the countdowns.

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