There was a pop star called Tracey Tracey, wasn't there?

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Was there - in the very early eighties? I seem to remember her having a hit (although I can't find any references on the www), and the video for the song was on the BBC's Top of the Pops at the same time as "Convoy", with Kris Kristofferson, was showing on ITV. Tracey meant her first name and Tracey meant her second name - a kind of antanaclasis.

― D> D>, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes. The Primitives.

Not to be confused with Mary Mary.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Their big hit was in 1988

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

You might be confusing early 80s Paul Weller protegé, Tracie
http://www.geocities.com/charliewoolfe/forsale/tracie.jpg

with mid-80s Primitives lead singer Tracey Tracey
http://home.cogeco.ca/~sarvajnatman/mbothers/tracey.gif

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Yes I was, thanks!
Yes I was, thanks!

― D> D>, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.crashsite.org/images/image75.jpg

There she is in the middle. Perkins, actually.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, but, yes, it was actually Tracie who I meant. "Far From The Hurting Kind", it seems was her album (googled). Wonder what that is like ... to listen to

― D> D>, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Don't bother

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Tracie Young began her singing career at a mere 17 years of age, when she was discovered by Jam leader Paul Weller through a newspaper ad for his new Respond label. Young sang on the final Jam single, "Beat Surrender," and on Weller's first few Style Council singles as well. Her debut album, Far From the Hurting Kind, was released in 1984 under the name Tracie, and featured production, backing, and songwriting from Weller as well as an Elvis Costello song written especially for her, "(I Love You) When You Sleep." The album was reissued in Japan in 1996.

- Steve Huey, All Music Guide

― D> D>, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I actually really like 'I love you when you sleep'! I didn't know it was a Costello song, though.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, check "Joe Porterhouse" from Goodbye Cruel World ....

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

She's no Lisa Lisa.

― Guayaquil, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Wow, this is a trip. I haven't thought of Tracie in years.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

She was no Tracey Hand.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

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