George Tobin is an American musical artist and record producer who has produced albums for a long list of musical artists including

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, Smokey Robinson,

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, and PC Quest. He is best known, however, for discovering, managing, and producing the teenage singer Tiffany and showcasing her in malls across the country. From the 1980s, Tobin owned a large recording studio complex in

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, which was frequently rented by people making demo tapes and radio commercials. Tiffany was recording a demo at the studio at age 12 when Tobin heard her and decided that she could be a star; soon, he was managing and producing her. Under Tobin's management, Tiffany released two very successful albums ('' Tiffany'' and ''

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''), and toured for two years with

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. Although Tiffany separated from Tobin's management in 1989, the two briefly reunited to record the 1993 album ''

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'' which Tobin produced. Ultimately, the album only saw release in Asia before Tiffany and Tobin went their separate ways again. In the 1990s, he pursued business ventures in

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, including buying radio station KMMK and changing it to

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the Edge. By 2005 his businesses, George Tobin Music and Headliner Records, were based in Las Vegas and Boca Raton, Florida. In 2005 Tobin re-released Tiffany's album ''Dreams Never Die'' with an additional six tracks taken from early Tiffany recording sessions at Tobin's studio and made it available to a wider audience than it had seen previously.

Selected albums and songs produced by Tobin

, ''

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'' (Produced in association with Mike Piccirillo) - single " More Love" #10 *

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, ''Happy Love'', (Produced in association with Mike Piccirillo) *

, ''Robert John'' - (Produced in association with Mike Piccirillo) - single " Sad Eyes" #1 *

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, '' All For Love'' - single "With You All The Way" #7 R&B * PC Quest, '' PC Quest'' & '' Directions'' - (Produced in association with Mike Piccirillo), single "After The Summer's Gone" #41 * Smokey Robinson, '' Being With You'' (Produced in association with Mike Piccirillo) - single " Being With You" #1 R&B, #2 pop (3 weeks) * Smokey Robinson, ''Yes It's You Lady'' (Produced in association with Mike Piccirillo) - single "Tell Me Tomorrow" #1 R&B, #33 pop * Tiffany, '' Tiffany'' - singles " Could've Been" #1, "

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" #1, " I Saw Him Standing There" #7 * Tiffany, ''

'' - single " All This Time" #6 * Tiffany, ''

'' - single "If Love is Blind"

References

External links

A note from George Tobin
(about his experiences with Tiffany) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tobin, George Living people American record producers Year of birth missing (living people)