Dazz Band Discography Price Guide Recently Listed Email Alerts Refine. The group failed to have another hit and quietly faded away. Items below may differ depending on the release. Soon after its release, the band switched to RCA. That year they had their final charting album, Wild and Free. Below is a table of the meta data for Let It Whip. Let It Whip has a BPM/tempo of 132, is in the key A min and has a duration of 04:41. It is track 1 in the album Keep It Live (Expanded Edition). The Dazz Band switched labels to Geffen in 1986. Let It Whip is a song by Dazz Band released on 1st January 1982. While they never reached those heights again, the Dazz Band had a string of six consecutive Top 100 albums that ran until 1986 during that time, they scored two other Top 100 singles, "Joystick" and "Let It All Blow." In 1985, Fearman and Frederick left the band they were replaced by Marlon McClain and Keith Harrison, respectively. In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock-loving misfit finds a way of dealing with small-town misery after discovering a roller-derby league in nearby Austin. "Let It Whip," taken from their second album Keep It Live (1982), reached number five and won a Grammy Award for Best Performance by an R&B Vocal Duo or Group. With Sarah Habel, Shannon Eagen, Edward Austin Kelly, Mary Callaghan Lynch. Once the group veered away from the more melodic, pop-oriented dance music that dominated their debut and started playing a tougher, more groove-oriented funk, the Dazz Band began racking up the hits. Invitation to Love, the band's first release for the record label, was released in 1980. After Calhoun left they changed their name to the Dazz Band in 1980 and signed to Motown. 'Keep It Live' and 'Whip' both feature th. This album spawned 'Let It Whip,' and contains a mixture of 'Whip'-ish tracks and slow, tantalizing ballads.
Under that name, the group had two small hits in the U.S.A. Keep It Live (Expanded Edition) Dazz Band. Harris and lead songwriter/guitarist Mike Calhoun's concept for the group was "danceable jazz" he shortened the description to "dazz" and called the group Kinsman Dazz. After myriad lineup changes, the end result was an eight-piece band featuring Harris, Skip Martin III, Pierre DeMudd on horns and vocals, guitarist Eric Fearman, bassist Michael Wiley, drummer Isaac Wiley, keyboardist Kevin Frederick, and percussionist Kenny Pettus. Bobby Harris formed the group in the late '70s, merging two Cleveland funk bands, Bell Telefunk and Mother Braintree. The Cleveland-based Dazz Band was one of the more popular funk groups of the early '80s.