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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.

Tracks in library
12
Average BPM
118.5
Catalog years
1984 - 2014
Total plays
113

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.

  1. Looking For Love (1986) 17 plays Baby Records
  2. Real Men (1985) 13 plays Merak Music
  3. Change Your Mind (2011) 11 plays Flashback Records
  4. Illusions (I Venti Remix) (2014) 15 plays I Venti D'azzurro Records
  5. Nobody Loves Me (I Venti Remix) (2014) 26 plays I Venti D'azzurro Records
  6. Runaway (1994) 8 plays One Way Records
  7. Only One (1986) 4 plays Heaven Records
  8. Feeling Okay (1988) 4 plays Baby 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 13
Help Me 1986 97.98 Baby Records Italy 2
Looking For Love 1986 117.95 Baby Records Italy 17
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 4
Runaway 1994 129.65 One Way Records Italy 8
Change Your Mind 2011 125.78 Flashback Records Italy 11
Illusions (I Venti Remix) 2014 122.30 I Venti D'azzurro Records Italy 15
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 26

Cover gallery

All 10 unique single covers in the Tom Hooker section of the library (identical covers shown once).

Cover of Give It To Me Cover of Real Men Cover of Help Me Cover of Looking For Love Cover of Only One Cover of Atlantis Cover of Feeling Okay Cover of Runaway Cover of Change Your Mind Cover of Illusions (I Venti Remix)

Catalog by decade

2010s: 4 tracks 1990s: 1 track 1980s: 7 tracks

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

98.0
Min BPM
118.5
Average
134.0
Max BPM

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

113
Total plays
0
Last 7 days
0
Last 30 days
23 Aug 2026
Last played

Plays per week across the Tom Hooker catalog (last 8 weeks):

Most-played tracks:

  1. Nobody Loves Me (I Venti Remix) 26 plays 2014
  2. Looking For Love 17 plays 1986
  3. Illusions (I Venti Remix) 15 plays 2014
  4. Real Men 13 plays 1985
  5. Change Your Mind 11 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 (113 plays). Every transition is beat-matched within the station's ±3 BPM window and is always 32 beats.

  1. Kriss - Hey Mister Mister after 3x 116.2 BPM 1988
  2. Donna - Dancin' after 3x 123.3 BPM 1987
  3. Del Faro - Bandiera La Playa Del Sol before 2x 118.3 BPM 1987
  4. G & M - Don't Let You Down before 1x · after 1x 119.7 BPM 1988
  5. J.D. Jaber - Don't Stop Lovin' before 1x · after 1x 120.0 BPM 1983
  6. Premio Nobel - Sugar Love before 1x · after 1x 120.6 BPM 1987
  7. Joe Maran & The D.J. Girls - King Of The Radio before 2x 120.8 BPM 1983
  8. Savage - I'm Loosing You (Euroenergy Remix) before 1x · after 1x 123.8 BPM 1988
  9. Dr. Morbius - I Love You Tonight before 1x · after 1x 124.0 BPM 2015
  10. Jean & Jill - Blue Blue Eyes after 2x 121.1 BPM 1988

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.

Genres & labels

Genres in the database:

FunkHappyItalo DanceItalo DiscoNew GenerationRemix

Dominant labels:

  • Baby Records (4 tracks)
  • I Venti D'azzurro Records (3 tracks)
  • Sensation Records (1 track)
  • Merak Music (1 track)

Frequently asked questions

How many Tom Hooker tracks are in the MixPerfect Radio library?
12 tracks are part of the library, spanning 1984 - 2014.
What is the average BPM of Tom Hooker tracks?
The average tempo is 118.5 BPM, ranging from 98.0 (Help Me) to 134.0 (Nobody Loves Me (Energy Mix)) BPM.

Similar artists

Artists in the MixPerfect Radio library sharing genre tags with Tom Hooker.

Den Harrow Scotch Koto Ken Laszlo Radiorama Fred Ventura Fun Fun Cappella Albert One Kirlian Camera

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.

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