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other uses2|TamsInfobox musical artist| name = The Tams| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta , Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia , United States | genre = Rhythm and blues|R& B , Soul music|Soul | years_active = 1960–present| label = Arlen Records ABC Records|ABC-Paramount Probe Records|Probe Virgin Records|Virgin | associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Charles Pope Robert Lee SmithLittle Red| past_members = Joseph Pope Horace KeyFloyd Ashton The Tams , sometimes later billed as 'The Joe Pope Tams' are an United States|American list of vocal groups|vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta , Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia , who enjoyed their greatest record chart|chart success in the 1960s, and the 1970s, and most improbably in the 1980s. Two separate versions of the group continue to perform and record. One version features original member Robert Lee Smith - 'The Original Tams with R. L. Smith', and the other under the leadership of Charles Pope, brother of founder Joe Pope.
Career
They were originally formed in 1960, and took their long lasting name from the Tam o'shanter (hat)|Tam o'shanter style of hat that the group choose to wear on stage (theatre)|stage . By 1962, they had a hit record|hit single (music)|single on Arlen Records. "Untie Me", a Joe South composition, became a Top 40|Top 20 United States|US Rhythm and blues|R& B success. Follow-up releases largely failed until 1964, when " What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) (song)|What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) ", reached the Top 40|Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . The song spent three weeks at number one on the Cash Box R& B chart.
" Hey Girl Don't Bother Me " was also a modest US hit the same year. The Tams had only one further major US hit (in 1968) when " Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy ", peaked on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard R& B chart at #26, and subsequently made the United Kingdom|UK Top 40 in 1970.cite book | first= Jo | last= Rice | year= 1982 | title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits | edition= 1st | publisher= Guinness Superlatives Ltd | location= Enfield, Middlesex | page= 140 | isbn= 0-85112-250-7
Their 1965 sound recording and reproduction|recording "I've Been Hurt" was their biggest regional hit (based on sales and airplay (radio)|airplay ) prior to 1980.
However, the group stunned many (including themselves), by flying to the Chart-topper|Number one slot in the UK Singles Chart in September UK No.1 Hits of 1971|1971 , with the re-issue of "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me", thanks to its initial support from the then thriving UK Northern soul scene.
They were destined to not chart again until sixteen years later, when a further UK Top 40 entry came about because of the band's association with a dance craze known as the Carolina shag , which featured heavily in the subsequent 1989 film , Shag (1989 film)|Shag . It secured a further lifeline to the group, giving The Tams a #21 UK hit with their song, "There Ain't Nothing Like Shaggin'". However, the track was subject to an airplay ban by the BBC because the word "shag" means "to have sexual intercourse " in colloquial British English . http://blog.masterton.co.uk/2007/12/twenty-year-nostalgia-part-2.html James Masterton chart blog, December 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A753527 BBC - h2g2 - The Origins and Common Usage of British Swear-words
Still quite popular in the Southeastern United States , they continue to record new music and perform at well-attended concert s. In 1999, they were featured performers with Jimmy Buffett on his Compact disc|CD , Beach House on the Moon , and also toured with him around the country.
The United States|American singer-songwriter , Tameka Cottle|Tameka Harris , was born in 1975, to Dianne Cottle-Pope and Charles Pope in College Park, Georgia .cite book|last=Miller|first=Zell |title=They Heard Georgia Singing|publisher=Mercer University Press|year=1996|pages=285|isbn=0-86554-504-9
Main personnel
Joseph Pope - born Joseph Lee Pope, November 6, 1933, Atlanta, Georgia & mdash; died March 16, 1996
Robert Lee Smith - born March 18, 1936
Horace Key - born April 13, 1934, Atlanta, Georgia
Charles Pope - born August 7, 1936, Atlanta, Georgia
Floyd Ashton - born August 15, 1933 (1960–1963)
Little Red - son of Charles Pope
Chart hits
"Untie Me" (1962) - Hot R& B/Hip-Hop Songs|US R& B #12, Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #60
" Hey Girl Don't Bother Me " (1964) - Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #41
"It's All Right (You're Just in Love)" (1964) - Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #79
"Silly Little Girl" (1964) - Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #87
" What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) (song)|What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) " (1964) - Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #9 ( ABC Records|ABC-Paramount )
"You Lied to Your Daddy" (1964) - Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #70
"I've Been Hurt" (1965)
" Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy " (1968) - Hot R& B/Hip-Hop Songs|US R& B #26, Billboard Hot 100|US Pop #61
"Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy" (1970) - UK Singles Chart|UK #32
" Hey Girl Don't Bother Me " (1971) - UK #1 - ( Probe Records|Probe )
"There Ain't Nothing Like Shaggin'" (1987) - UK #21 - ( Virgin Records|Virgin )
cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 549
See also
List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
Beach music
List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States
Bibliography
The New Musical Express Book of Rock , 1975, Star Books, ISBN 0-352-30074-4
References
reflist
External links
http://www.thetams.com/ The Original Joe Pope Tams website
http://www.BeYoungBeFoolish.com The R.L. Smith Tams website
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