Hang On Little Tomato - Pink Martini ft. China Forbes | Wolf Trap - 2021

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Pink Martini is on tour in 2022! Tickets are on sale now at:
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From Pink Martini's August 11, 2021 concert at the legendary Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center near Washington DC, this live performance features one of the band's most popular, indelible hits, "Hang On Little Tomato", a perfect hopeful anthem for our times. Written by bandleader Thomas M. Lauderdale, lead singer China Forbes, and their friend Patrick Abbey, the song was the title track of the band's second studio album, 2004's "Hang On Little Tomato", and has been an audience favorite ever since its debut. The song's concept and message were taken from a 1964 "Life" Magazine ad for Hunt's Catsup. This performance features Pink Martini trombonist Robert Taylor playing the introductory solo, which was originally played on the album by clarinetist, former Oregon Symphony Pops conductor, famed jazz arranger, and dear friend Norman Leyden.

LYRICS

The sun has left and forgotten me
It’s dark, I cannot see
Why does this rain pour down?
I’m gonna drown, in a sea... of deep confusion

Somebody told me, I don’t know who
Whenever you are sad and blue
And you’re feelin’ all alone and left behind
Just take a look inside and you will find

You gotta hold on, hold on through the night
Hang on, things will be alright,
Even when it’s dark, and not a bit of sparkling
Sing-song sunshine from above, spreading rays of sunny love – just

Hang on, hang on to the vine
Stay on, soon you’ll be divine
If you start to cry, look up to the sky
Something’s coming up ahead
To turn your tears to dew instead

And so I hold on to this advice
When change is hard and not so nice
If you listen to your heart the whole night through
Your sunny someday will come one day soon to you


LINEUP:

Thomas M. Lauderdale, piano and bandleader
China Forbes, lead vocals
Phil Baker, upright bass
Dan Faehnle, guitar
Nicholas Crosa, violin
Thomas Barber, trumpet
Robert Taylor, trombone
Andrew Borger, drums
Brian Davis, percussion
Miguel Bernal, percussion
Timothy Nishimoto, percussion


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