Songoftheday 6/10/20 - You were so nervous and yet oh so comfortable, as we explored your image of love...
from the albums Az Yet and The Nutty Professor (Original Soundtrack) (both 1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 25
Today's song of the day comes from the male soul vocal group Az Yet, who in its original incarnation came together in Philadelphia at the close of the 1980s. After a series of personel changes, which included recruiting original Boyz II Men member Marc Nelson, the quintet got signed to Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds' LaFace record label. Their first single in the spring of 1996, "Last Night", was a downtempo harmony treasure in the likes of Shai and Boyz II Men from the beginning of the decade. It was also included in the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy treatment of The Nutty Professor movie, and released as a single behind three top-40 hits in Case's "Touch Me, Tease Me", Monica's "Ain't Nobody", and Montell Jordan's "I Like", as well as rapper Jay-Z's breakthrough single "Ain't No N***a". The song, produced by Babyface himself with Take 6's Mervyn Warren, which explains the stellar treatment of their vocals, was written by Babyface with Keith Andes, and the seductive booty call anthem pushed all the right buttons...
"Last Night" became Az Yet's first big hit, reaching the top ten on the American pop chart in October of 1996. The song also spent a week at #1 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Australia (#2), New Zealand (#6), and the Netherlands (#8), while making the top-40 in Sweden (#18) and the UK (#21).
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Here's the group performing the song on Australian televsion, by then Nelson had already left the act...
Up tomorrow: Indiana rocker heads southward.
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