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Dazz Band Songs

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The Dazz Band is an American funk music band whose popularity exploded in the early 1980s. Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, the group's biggest hit songs include the Grammy Award-winning "Let It Whip" (1982), "Joystick" (1983), and "Let It All Blow" (1984). The name of the band is a portmanteau of the description "danceable jazz". Reggie Andrews produced five Dazz Band albums including: Let The Music Play (1981), Keep It Live (1982), On the One (1983), Joystick (1983), Jukebox (1984) under the Motown label. The album Hot Spot (1985) also under Motown, was produced by Bobby Harris. The Dazz Band was known for its high energy live performances, often proving more popular than the headlining act. After winning the Grammy in 1982, Keith Harrison (1983)(vocalist, keyboards) was added to the group. In 1985 both Eric Fearman and Sennie "Skip" Martin (trumpet, vocalist) left the group and were replaced by guitarist Marlon McClain; and the search began for additional vocalists that would match The Dazz Band sound. In 1986, The Dazz Band recorded Wild & Free (1986) which featured Jerry Bell as lead vocalist."Geffen Records.[6]The Dazz Band signed with RCA records in 1988 and released the album Rock the Room which charted with the single Anticipation featuring vocals from Juan Lively (vocalist). From 1994-2001 Terry Stanton (vocalist) contributed on the following albums including: Funkology (1994), and Under the Streetlights (1995) Lucky Records. After 20 years as lead vocalist with Kool & The Gang, Skip Martin returned to The Dazz Band in 1998, and shared lead vocals with Terry Stanton on Time Traveler (2001) on Major Hits Records. In 2015, Bobby Harris decided to return to the original four man front and added vocalists Donny Sykes and Johnathan Celestin as they prepare to release new music in 2016.

Below is a list of Dazz Band songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Motown 1609
chart position: RandB #1, US #5, US dance #2
written by: Reggie Andrews & Leon
album: Keep It Live
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Let It Whip
1982 Motown
2 record label: Motown 1760
chart position: RandB #9, UK #12, US dance #3, US #84
written by: Bobby Harris & Keith Harrison
album: Jukebox
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Let It All Blow
1984 Motown
3 record label: Motown 1775
chart position: RandB #12, UK #79
written by: Reggie Andrews and Bobby Harris
album: Wild and Free
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Heartbeat
1985 Motown
4 record label: Motown 1659
chart position: RandB #9, US Dance #52
written by: Reggie Andrews and Leon
album: On the One
comments: [disco funk]
Dazz Band On the One for Fun
1983 Motown
5 record label: Motown 1701
chart position: RandB #9, US #61
written by: Bobby Harris and Eric Fearman
album: Joystick
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Joystick
1984 Motown
6 record label: Motown 1725
chart position: RandB #12
written by: Reggie Andrews and Leon
album: Joystick
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Swoop (I'm Yours)
1984 Motown
7 record label: RCA Victor 8677
chart position: RandB #19, US Dance #38
written by: Ish Ledesma and Bobby Harris
album: Rock the Room
Dazz Band Single Girls
1988 RCA Victor
8 record label: Motown 1622
chart position: RandB #20
written by: Kenny Pettus, Michael Wiley, Reggie Andrews and Bobby Harris
album: Keep It Live
comments: [disco funk]
Dazz Band Keep It Live (On the K.I.L.)
1982 Motown
9 record label: Motown 1800
chart position: RandB #21, US Dance #33
written by: Keith Harrison, Marlon McClain and Bobby Harris
album: Hot Spot
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Hot Spot
1985 Motown
10 record label: 20th Century 2435
chart position: RandB #33
written by: D. Harris
album: Dazz
Kinsman Dazz Band Catchin' Up on Love
1980 20th Century
11 record label: Motown 1507
chart position: RandB #51, US #109
written by: Michael Calhoun and Pierre DeMudd
album: Invitation to Love
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Invitation to Love
1980 Motown
12 record label: RCA 7614
chart position: RandB #38
written by: Dan Hartman
album: Rock the Room
Dazz Band Anticipation
1988 RCA
13 record label: 20th Century 2390
chart position: RandB #46, US #104
written by: Kinsman Dazz
Kinsman Dazz Band I Might as Well Forget About Loving You
1979 20th Century
14 record label: Motown 1515
chart position: RandB #44
written by: Eric Fearman and Bobby Harris
album: Let the Music Play
comments: [love ballad]
Dazz Band Knock Knock
1981 Motown
15 record label: Geffen 6
chart position: RandB #44
written by: Marlon McClain, Bobby Harris and Jeff Lorber
album: Wild and Free
Dazz Band Wild and Free
1986 Geffen
16 record label: Geffen 28635
chart position: RandB #48
album: Wild and Free
Dazz Band L.O.V.E. M.I.A.
1986 Geffen
17 record label: Intersound 9286
chart position: RandB #58
album: Live... And Kickin'
George Clinton with the Dazz Band Ain't Nuthin' But a Jam Y'all
1997 Intersound
18 record label: Motown 1680
chart position: RandB #63
written by: Eric Fearman, Kwame Heshimu and Bobby Harris
album: On the One
comments: [funk]
Dazz Band Party Right Here
1983 Motown
19 record label: Motown 1500
chart position: RandB #65, US Dance #75
written by: Michael Calhoun
album: Invitation to Love
comments: [Motown Sound]
Dazz Band Shake It Up
1980 Motown
20 record label: Motown 1676
chart position: RandB #76
written by: Eric Fearman, Keith Harrison, Kenny Pettus, Kwame Heshimu, Bobby Harris, Sennie Martin and Steve Cox
album: On the One
comments: [disco funk]
Dazz Band Cheek to Cheek
1983 Motown
21 record label: Platinum Ent. 9338
chart position: RandB #81
album: Here We Go Again
comments: [slow jam]
Dazz Band Girl Got Body
1998 Platinum Ent.
22 record label: RCA 8793
chart position: RandB #83
written by: Keith Harrison, Kenny Nolan and Bobby Harris
album: Rock the Room
comments: [slow jam]
Dazz Band Open Sesame
1988 RCA
-- record label: Geffen
written by: F. Harrison, B. Harris
album: Wild And Free
comments: [disco funk album cut]
Dazz Band It's All Right
1986 Geffen
-- record label: Motown 1582
written by: B. Harris, K. Pettus, K. Kendrick
album: Let The Music Play
comments: [disco funk]
Dazz Band Let The Music Play
1981 Motown
-- record label: Motown 1507
written by: M. Calhoun, P. DeMudd
album: Invitation To Love
comments: [disco funk]
Dazz Band Magnetized
1980 Motown




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