Tom Hooker
Tom Hooker is a dance-music act. Key releases appeared on Baby Records, I Venti D'azzurro Records, Flashback Records. Within the MixPerfect Radio library, 12 tracks are part of the rotation.
About
- Aliases: Lou Sern, Hooker Thomas Beecher
- Key labels: Baby Records, I Venti D'azzurro Records, Sensation Records, Merak Music (from the MixPerfect Radio catalog)
Tom Hooker is an American singer, songwriter and photographer born in Connecticut on 18 November, 1957. After moving to Europe at an early age, started playing drums at 10.
Notable tracks
Chart-tagged and most-played productions by Tom Hooker in the MixPerfect Radio catalog.
- Looking For Love (1986) 19 plays Baby Records
- Real Men (1985) 15 plays Merak Music
- Change Your Mind (2011) 15 plays Flashback Records
- Illusions (I Venti Remix) (2014) 19 plays I Venti D'azzurro Records
- Nobody Loves Me (I Venti Remix) (2014) 30 plays I Venti D'azzurro Records
- Feeling Okay (1988) 7 plays Baby Records
- Runaway (1994) 9 plays One Way Records
- Only One (1986) 4 plays Heaven Records
Tracks & releases
All 12 Tom Hooker tracks in the MixPerfect Radio database, with play counts (1984 - 2014).
| Track | Year | BPM | Label | Country | Plays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Give It To Me | 1984 | 105.98 | Sensation Records | Italy | 5 |
| Real Men | 1985 | 121.15 | Merak Music | Italy | 15 |
| Help Me | 1986 | 97.98 | Baby Records | Italy | 2 |
| Looking For Love | 1986 | 117.95 | Baby Records | Italy | 19 |
| Only One | 1986 | 115.75 | Heaven Records | Italy | 4 |
| Atlantis | 1987 | 119.33 | Baby Records | Italy | 4 |
| Feeling Okay | 1988 | 107.91 | Baby Records | Italy | 7 |
| Runaway | 1994 | 129.65 | One Way Records | Italy | 9 |
| Change Your Mind | 2011 | 125.78 | Flashback Records | Italy | 15 |
| Illusions (I Venti Remix) | 2014 | 122.30 | I Venti D'azzurro Records | Italy | 19 |
| Nobody Loves Me (Energy Mix) | 2014 | 134.00 | I Venti D'azzurro Records | Italy | 4 |
| Nobody Loves Me (I Venti Remix) | 2014 | 124.01 | I Venti D'azzurro Records | Italy | 30 |
Catalog by decade
Of these, 7 from the 80s golden era (1982 - 1988) and 1 from the 90s dance era anchor the classic MixPerfect Radio sound.
BPM profile
5 of 12 tracks fall inside the mix-friendly 119 - 129 BPM band, with Help Me (98.0 BPM) at the slow end and Nobody Loves Me (Energy Mix) (134.0 BPM) at the fast end. That places them within reach of the station's ±3 BPM beat-matching window, so they mix together comfortably in the non-stop mix.
Airplay
Plays per week across the Tom Hooker catalog (last 8 weeks):
Most-played tracks:
- Nobody Loves Me (I Venti Remix) 30 plays 2014
- Looking For Love 19 plays 1986
- Illusions (I Venti Remix) 19 plays 2014
- Real Men 15 plays 1985
- Change Your Mind 15 plays 2011
Play counts are generated live from the MixPerfect Radio airplay log and update continuously.
Mixed with on MixPerfect Radio
The tracks most often mixed directly before or after Tom Hooker's tracks in the MixPerfect Radio non-stop mix (133 plays). Every transition is beat-matched within the station's ±3 BPM window and is always 32 beats. The element badge marks transitions that also satisfy the engine's rule of no overlapping bass / melody / vocals.
- O'ryan - Everyday Man before 1x · after 2x 122.3 BPM 2006 element ✓
- Fancy - China Blue before 1x · after 2x 124.4 BPM 1987 element ✓
- Kriss - Hey Mister Mister after 3x 116.2 BPM 1988 element ✓
- Donna - Dancin' after 3x 123.3 BPM 1987 element ✓
- Del Faro - Bandiera La Playa Del Sol before 2x 118.3 BPM 1987 element ✓
- G & M - Don't Let You Down before 1x · after 1x 119.7 BPM 1988 element ✓
- J.D. Jaber - Don't Stop Lovin' before 1x · after 1x 120.0 BPM 1983 element ✓
- Premio Nobel - Sugar Love before 1x · after 1x 120.6 BPM 1987 element ✓
- Joe Maran & The D.J. Girls - King Of The Radio before 2x 120.8 BPM 1983 element ✓
- Savage - I'm Loosing You (Euroenergy Remix) before 1x · after 1x 123.8 BPM 1988 element ✓
Small sample - observed connections from the airplay log, not recommendations. A partner can be another track by this same artist: those were mixed consecutively on air. If no element data is recorded for a transition it is counted as BPM-only.
Genres & labels
Genres in the database:
Dominant labels:
- Baby Records (4 tracks)
- I Venti D'azzurro Records (3 tracks)
- Sensation Records (1 track)
- Merak Music (1 track)
Frequently asked questions
Similar artists
Artists in the MixPerfect Radio library sharing genre tags with Tom Hooker.
Sources
Factual information on this page was researched using the following sources:
The biographical text on this page is an original summary based on independently selected factual information; no source text has been reproduced. Release data (year, label, catalog number) comes from the MixPerfect Radio catalog. Facts may contain errors - see the legal information page for the full disclaimer.