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{{Infobox song
| name       = Tingly
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| type       = single
| artist     = [[Pop! featuring Angie Hart]]
| album      =
| B-side     = "Tingly" (Ang-elic), "Tingly" (I Wish My Brother George Martin Was Here), "Tingly" (Hartless), "Zoo" (Instrumental 8-track demo)
| released   = 9 October 1995<ref name=amr>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/uhWbUAA.jpg|title=Australian Music Report No 1104 – 9 October 1995 > Singles: New Releases|publisher=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Music Report]], via Imgur.com|accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>
| recorded   = Toyland<br><small>([[Melbourne]])</small>
| studio     =
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| genre      = [[Indie pop]]
| length     = 3:33
| label      = White
| writer     = [[Flower/Richards]]
| producer   = [[Pop! and Anthony Horan]]
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}}"'''Tingly'''" is a song recorded by [[Pop! featuring Angie Hart]]. It was written by Amy Flower (formerly known as Tony Stott) and John Richards of About Six Feet, and released as Flower's solo side project. Recorded in an hour on Good Friday 1995, the vocals were performed by [[Angie Hart]], who was then in the highly successful band [[Frente]]. It was released on October 9, 1995<ref name=amr/> and became a popular song on the radio, making it on to [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1995]]. The single peaked at #92 on the Australian [[ARIA Charts|ARIA]] singles chart in December 1995.<ref name=aus>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/z19dkla.jpg|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 28 Jan 1996|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]], via Imgur.com|accessdate=2 June 2016}} N.B. The HP column displays the highest position reached.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia|edition=pdf|page=221}}</ref>  It was also featured in dozens of episodes of ''[[Neighbours]]'' and ''[[Home and Away]]'', and was featured on the first ''Home and Away'' soundtrack album.

Named "Single of the Week" in both ''Beat Magazine'' and ''3D'', and "Single Of The Year" in the ''Sydney Telegraph Mirror'', "Tingly" was particularly loved by [[Triple J|JJJ]]'s [[Richard Kingsmill]]. Kingsmill was instrumental in its release, having played it repeatedly when it was sent to him as a demo recording. He was originally asked to stop playing it by White Records, home of Frente, who had not given permission for Hart to make the recording. In the end, White - somewhat begrudgingly - released it as a 5-track single, but refused to make a video for it. There was concern in the company that the song would harm Frente's move to a more adult sound, which they were trying with the ''Shape'' album (released a year later in 1996). While never a hit, it received critical acclaim and sold well over a long period.

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Tingly, has a lush, retro Brit pop feel, a bit like [[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] - all open top cars, flowing scarves and endless motorways. Pretty special.
|Sue Yeap|[[The West Australian]]}}

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Picture (in black and white) [[Julie Christie]] skipping through English suburban streets happy with the thought that [[Terence Stamp]] is awaiting her arrival at the local as the strings swirl, the beat intensifies and the fragile vocal builds to a euphoric peak.
|Andrew Mast|[[Inpress]] Magazine}}

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A grandiose, enormous, hugely gorgeous pop epic reminiscent of [[Dusty Springfield]] meets the [[Pet Shop Boys]], Tingly is everything music should be. Gorge yourself on this pop feast because to miss out would be a crime.
|Kathy McCabe|Sydney Telegraph Mirror}}

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You see, Tingly is the genuine thing - a one-off pop project that came together for just one song. And it is totally brilliant - the most glorious old-fashioned pop song redolent of '60s [[Motown]], [[the Box Tops]], [[the Equals]], [[Dusty Springfield]], [[Kathy Kirby]], the British beat boom, all rolled into one litany of harmony and melody set over sweeping, coiling keyboards, tramping drums, a burbling bass and the most effervescent, perfect, vocal Angie Hart (of [[Frente]]) has delivered in her life. Guaranteed a place in the history of Australian music… for one of the classic pop songs of its and any time. Congratulations, to all involved. Simply, wonderful.
|Mike Gee|3D Magazine}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
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! Chart (1995)
! Peak<br>position
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! scope="row"| Australia ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref name=aus/>
| 92
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.inthe00s.com/archive/inthe90s/smf/1201969951.shtml Tingly lyrics] at inthe00s.com
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[[Category:1995 songs]]
[[Category:Australian pop songs]]