A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

TONY WHO? What if I told you that there was a guy who was the lead singer on 5 Top 10 hits and that you had probably never heard of him?

Tony Burrows never had a hit record under his own name, but he managed the feat of having four records in the British Top Ten at the same time, all under different names. The British session vocalist was the lead singer of:

• Edison Lighthouse's Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes), which hit # 5 on the American pop charts in February of 1970,

• White Plains' My Baby Loves Lovin' (someone has set this song to a "Lost" theme), which peaked at #13 on the US Top 40 in May of the same year,

• The Pipkins' preposterous Gimme Dat Ding, which reached #9 in June of 1970, and

• The Brotherhood of Man's United We Stand, which hit #13 in May of the same year.

Burrows had another Top Ten hit in 1974 with the song Beach Baby, credited to First Class.

He also sang background on many of Elton John's early-'70s albums (especially Madman Across the Water). In fact, he sings background on ALOTT5MA fave Tiny Dancer (this clip taken from the memorable scene in "Almost Famous").