the band title was taken from either a title of a lawn-ornament store around Wayne, New Jersey, not far from Montclair, New Jersey, the hometown of the band's bassist and cofounder Adam Schlesinger.

A band was formed by Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood. Them number 1 met when freshmen at Williams College and began playing music together around various elastic. Them one of these days went their separate ways sustaining Collingwood forming a Mercy Buckets in Boston and Schlesinger forming Ivy in New York City. Them met higher once more in a period of the mid 90's and formed Fountains of Wayne. The demonstration one of these days landed them the treat by using Atlantic Records and in 1996 they released their self coroneted debut. A album spawned a singles "Radiation Vibe" & "Sink To The Bottom" which received airplay, however it was Schlesinger's song entitled "That Thing You Do!" which became a hit existence utilized when a lead track for the Tom Hanks film of the same title. "That Thing You Do!" likewise brought Schlesinger an Oscar nomination and an RIAA gold certification for the hit soundtrack.

Along using guitar player Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young, a band toured the world extensively behind the album swimming alongside elastic like The Smashing Pumpkins and The Lemonheads. Still the album was considered a disappointment commercially, selling merely 125,000 copies in the America. 1999 brought about a recently album entitled Utopia Parkway named after the road inside Queens, New York. the album was something of a construct record that dealt by having life inside modern suburbia. Utopia Parkway was received swell by critics garnering numerous favorable reviews & was album of the week inside People Magazine. Prefer its predecessor even so, the album sold badly & failed to spawn a hit individual. the class action toured extensively again behind a album however frustrations grew between a b& and a label while it failed to promote a proper third lone entitled "Troubled Times" remixed by Tom Lord-Alge. A band was late drop in Atlantic in late 1999.

A b& disbanded for the period existence and their new seemed like uncertain. Schlesinger obtained function as a writer & producer & co-wrote several of the songs for the Josie and the Pussycats film and soundtrack severally. He likewise produced albums for the Verve Pipe, David Meade, and They Might Be Giants. He freed the third record using his band Commin ivy on Nettwerk records which produced somewhat of a hit by owning "Edge Of The Ocean" existence licensed to various commercial message & films. A band besides did a score for the Farrelly brothers film Shallow Hal starring Jack Black.

When you took a class action's hiatus Collingwood formed & fronted the popular united states band entitled Gay Potatoes based in the Northampton, Massachusetts area. He likewise played the string of solo shows in the Boston & Los Angeles locality. Guitarist Jody Porter worked by having his band The Astrojet alongside famed producer Gordon Raphael in the New York City locality. Drummer Brian Young played by having English ivy & observed session function for various creative person.

Quondam within 2001 the band slowly came back together recording the handle of The Kinks Better Things for the benefit album This Is Where I Belong: Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks. A class action too recorded a theme song for the Comedy Central show Crank Yankers as well as songs for the VH1 cartoon show Hey Joel! with columnist Joel Stein. the b& utilized a money processed from either these projects to fund a recording of a freshly album working inside Upstate Just released York, Future York City, and Boston.

Within 2003 the band signed with S-Curve Records a subsidiary of Virgin Records and released a second acclaimed album entitled Welcome Interstate Managers. the album was a surprise hit & sold substantially swell. It as well spawned a hit only "Stacy's Mom" which was certified gold by the RIAA. A watch higher only "Mexican Wine" fared less swell using the controversial music video that showed young youngsters singing a lyrics ''believe i personally'll own a second glass of Mexican Wine & guitar player Jody Porter getting the drink to your hearts content in the bare tummy of the woman laying on the beach. A third lone "Hey Julie" received a bit of airplay nonetheless. Their song "All Kinds Of Time" which depicts the immature footballer within the zen such as state of mind in the period of the important game winning pass was utilized extensively for NFL commercial promotions during a 2005 year.

Inside late June 2005 Fountains of Wayne freed the collection of B-sides also when 2 fresh songs for the album Out of State Plates via Virgin. A album is supported per individual "Maureen" & the limited Usthe tour that has involved a few acoustical lone sets & a assault PBS Soundstage & Western Songbook.

Discography
Fountains of Wayne (1996) Utopia Parkway (1999) Welcome Interstate Managers (2003) Out of State Plates'' (2005)

Group Members
Chris Collingwood - Guitar, Vocals Adam Schlesinger - Bass Jody Porter - Guitar Brian Young - Drums