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- From: bgonzal@math.rutgers.edu (Bil Gonzalez)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for YAZZ "Wanted" CD or tape
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.15.13.17.1993.27031@math.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:13:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.164032.8596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <mattm-200193101630@mcmelmon.apple.com> <1993Jan20.223238.26096@psych.toronto.edu>
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- paul@psych.toronto.edu (Paul Hastings) writes:
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- >In article <mattm-200193101630@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan20.164032.8596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>,
- >>rosario@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Rosario Gennaro) wrote:
- >>
- >>> I am looking for the only album of a group called YAZZ.
- >>> The album came out around 6-7 years ago and its title is "Wanted".
- >>> The hit from that album was "Stand up for your love rights" a song
- >>> with some kind of gay motif in it.
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- Also, "The Only Way is Up" was a big dance hit.
-
- >>In fact and without doubt, there are *two* albums by YAZZ(OO) -
- >>the post-Depeche-Mode pre-Andrew-Bell with Alison-Moyet brainchild
- >>of Vincent Clarke. Very cool.
-
- >I dunno, *X*, is Rosie really talking about Yaz (one 'z'), the same
- >band? In which case he certainly has neglected 'Upstairs at Eric's'
- >as one of their albums. However, I'm not familiar with "Wanted",
- >and Yaz had certainly disbanded by 1986, the date he sticks on the
- >song.
-
- You are indeed talking about two different groups.
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- Yazz, featuring a girl with short white hair, whose name I cannot remember,
- indeed had an album "Wanted" featuring "Stand Up..." and "The Only Way...".
- Domestically, it was out about 88/89. I think that the songs were first
- released in Britain at least a year earlier. I think that the CD was
- available, but I think has been long discontinued. It was bright yellow
- with squiggly blue and pink writing. I recall the lead singer going solo
- after the project, recording under her real name.
-
- Yaz, in the US, and Yazoo, elsewhere, is the "group" that Vince Clark formed
- with Alison Moyet circa '81-83, post-Depeche Mode, pre-Assembly,
- pre-Paul Quinn, pre-Andy Bell/Erasure. They had two albums,
- "Upstairs at Eric's" and "You and Me Both", both of which are usually
- available for a "Nice Price". They had a few other singles, unavailable
- on albums depending on which country you live in; most notably,
- "The Other Side of Love".
-
- There is also an old, defunct (I think funk) group called Yazoo in the US,
- which is supposedly the reason why Vince Clark shortened the name to "Yaz".
- Two groups cannot have the same name.
-
- BG
- bgonzal@math.rutgers.edu
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