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Backstory:
Tin Pan Apple debuted in 1982 with a lot of noise. Charlie Stettler and Lynda West, then-owners of a New York roller disco, put together a six-minute gag cassette of street noise for homesick city dwellers. The recording was among the highest-selling Christmas stocking-stuffers, selling more than 250,000 at stores like Bloomingdale’s and Bendel’s. They next produced the Tin Pan Apple Rap & Breakdance Contest at Radio City Music Hall, the first major corporate sponsored (Coca Cola and WBLS) hip hop event. Three chubby Brooklyn teenagers calling themselves the Disco 3 were the rap winners. Stettler/West signed them and renamed them the Fat Boys and the rest is history.