Tease Me (album)

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Tease Me
Chaka Demus & Pliers Tease Me album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1993
Genre
Label Mango Records
Chaka Demus & Pliers chronology
Ruff This Year
(1992)
Tease Me
(1993)
For Every Kinda People
(1996)
Singles from Tease Me
  1. "Murder She Wrote"
    Released: 1992 / 1993
  2. "Tease Me"
    Released: 11th June 1993
  3. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
    Released: 1993
  4. "She Don't Let Nobody"
    Released: 1993
  5. "Twist and Shout"
    Released: 17 December 1993
  6. "Gal Wine"
    Released: 1994

Tease Me is an album by Jamaican reggae duo Chaka Demus & Pliers, released in 1993 by Mango Records. It peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart [1] and was a one-hit wonder there. All six singles from the album were Top 40 hits in the UK, with "Twist and Shout" reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

Track listing

Songs written by John Taylor (Chaka Demus), Everton Bonner (Pliers), Lloyd Willis, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, unless otherwise noted. [2]

  1. "Tease Me"
  2. "She Don't Let Nobody" (Curtis Mayfield, Dino Fekaris)
  3. "Nuh Betta Nuh Deh"
  4. "Bam Bam" (Frederick Hibbert)
  5. "Friday Evening"
  6. "Let's Make It Tonight"
  7. "One Nation Under a Groove" (Gary Shider, George Clinton, Walter Morrison)
  8. "Tracy"
  9. "Sunshine Day"
  10. "Murder She Wrote" (Bonner, Taylor, Willis, Dunbar)
  11. "Roadrunner"
  12. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
  13. "Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Berns)
  14. "Gal Wine"

Chart performance

Chart (1994)Peak
position
UK Albums Chart [1] 1

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References

  1. 1 2 "Chaka Demius and Pliers - Tease Me". Official Charts Company. 1993. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
  2. "Chaka Demus & Pliers – Tease Me (1993, CD)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.