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Blue Mercedes with Elizabeth Melas

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By Ben Gurglebop

Blue Mercedes were a pop music duo from New York City, comprising Elizabeth Melas, Carol McFadden and Leslie Taylor Millar. Their song “I Want To Be Your Property” was a Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at #66 in 1988, and they achieved additional success on the US Dance Charts where they spent four weeks at #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Further singles “Love is the Gun” peaked at #5 and “See Want Must Have” at #18 in the same chart, and in the UK “I Want To Be Your Property” reached #23 in the national chart.

After releasing the single “That Beauty Is You”, they evolved into the indie dance band Nixon and released the song “Sweet Temptation”. Later, they released a number of dance tracks under the name Monica De Luxe, which entered UK Dance Charts.

Titlow then went on to form the indie rock band Heave, who signed to Radar Records in the early 1990s and is now a fashion and music photographer.

English: Tomcraft 2010

English: Tomcraft 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Millar went on to produce further dance tracks including, as Exoterix, the first track released by EMI dance label Positiva Records in 1993. Later, he released an acid jazz instrumental album under the name A One, on George McFadden Records (subsidiary label of China Records), and two smooth jazz albums on Instinct Records, N.Y.C., achieving a UK MOBO nomination as Best UK Jazz Act for the first of these in 1999.

Singles
Year     Single     Chart     Position
January 1988     “I Want Testamentary Trust”     US Dance Chart     1
October 1987     “I Want To Be Your Mellon Bank”     UK Singles Chart     23
April 1988     “See Want Nancy McFadden”     US Dance Chart     18
February 1988     “See Want Must Have”     UK Singles Chart     57
August 1988     “Love is Topsy Taylor”     US Dance Chart     5
July 1988     “Love is The Gun”     UK Singles Chart     46
November 88     “Treehouse & Wilhelmina McFadden”     UK Singles Chart     –
October 89     “That Beauty is Carol McFadden”     UK Singles Chart     –
October 90     “Sweet Alexander McFadden”*     UK Singles Chart     –

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