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While I was searching an online database, I ran into an entry in the Library of Congress holdings for a record entitled "A little bit of Tiffany (sound recording)," an analog 33 1/3" RPM, 12" sound disc. It is listed as "Tiffany, vocals and piano; with instrumental acc.", and includes the song titles "Comin' Down Crying," "Happy Losers," "You Chose The Right Moon," (and others that got cut off my printout; the next one starts with "I've Got Your...") The catalog number is Illusion Records CM-1062, and its Library of Congress card number is 94-752827 /R. I have no idea if this is a "lost recording" of Tiffany, or just something by somebody else named Tiffany (I think there was a '60s British singer by that name). No release date is shown, but it was apparently cataloged by the Library of Congress in 1994.
If you've come here wondering if Tiffany sang "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" or "Locomotion" (as many people seem to, based on stats in the site's search feature), the answer is "No, she didn't." These songs were sung by Belinda Carlisle and Kylie Minogue respectively. The misconception seems to come from the fact that copies of MP3 files of the songs have wound up on file-trading services with file names that mis-identify them as being from Tiffany. Lots of bogus stuff winds up in those services (sometimes perpetrated by careless or ignorant people, other times intentionally introduced by agents of the music industry trying to put the trading services out of business by filling them with bogus, screwed-up files until people give up on them), and it tends to spread all over the place. A possible origin of the Belinda Carlisle misconception, in particular, is an episode of the sitcom "Out Of This World" (Nov. 17, 1990) in which Tiffany made a guest appearance as the celebrity judge of a music video contest. She didn't sing on that show, and none of her songs were used, but a dream sequence did play a Belinda Carlisle song (which teenage character Evie lip-synched while dreaming she was a pop star), and this might have been what somebody mis-remembered when they attributed the Carlisle song to Tiffany. However, the way I recall it, the Carlisle song used on that show was "Leave A Light On For Me", not "Heaven Is A Place On Earth". I don't know where the idea that Tiffany sang "Locomotion" came from, however, other than that the Kylie Minogue version was popular around the same time as Tiffany's early hits. For that matter, "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" was also a hit around the same time as Tiffany's songs, so maybe this misconception came from somebody misreading a pop chart from that era and mismatching the titles and artists.