We Got The Beat

Album: Beauty And The Beat (1980)
Charted: 2
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Charlotte Caffey
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 4

  • Michael from UsaRespect to The Go Go's as being the first all girl band to write their own songs, play their instruments to hit number 1 on the Billboard album charts they made history. I would not compare The Bangles with The Go Go's at all because the big hit singles by The Bangles they didn't even write those songs. Manic Monday was written by Prince and Walk Like an Egyptian wasn't written by The Bangles either. The Dixie Chicks didn't write all their own songs either so neither band should be mentioned. Now The Runaways completely different story those girls were teenagers, played their instruments very well and wrote the majority of their own songs but sadly didn't get the credit they deserved and it didn't help they had a corrupt pervert pig for a manager Kim Fowley.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this in 1982 {April 4th} "We Got The Beat" by the Go-Gos peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} on Billboard's Top 100* chart, the three weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those three weeks was "I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts...
    Just under two weeks later on April 17th "We Got The Beat" peaked at #3 {for 1 week} in Canada...
    Between 1981 and 1984 the Los Angeles quintet had seven records on the Top 100 chart, two made the Top 10 with the above "We Got The Beat" being their biggest hit...
    Besides "We Got The Beat", their other Top 10 record was "Vacation", it peak at #8 {for 3 weeks} later in 1982 on August 15th...
    They just missed having a third #10 record when their "Head Over Heels" reached #11 for two weeks in May of 1984...
    * And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the Billboard's Top 10 for April 4th, 1982:
    At #3, "Charoits of Fire" by Vangelis
    #4. "Freeze-Frame" by The J. Geils Band
    #5. "Make A Move On Me" Olivia Newton-John
    #6. "Don't Talk To Strangers" by Rick Springfield
    #7. "Open Arms" by Journey
    #8. "That Girl" by Stevie Wonder
    #9. "Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins
    #10. "Do You Believe In Love" by Huey Lewis and the News...
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 23rd 1982, the Go-Go's performed "We Got The Beat" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    And on that very same day it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on April 4th, 1982 it peaked at #2 (for 3 weeks) and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100 (and 9 of those 19 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    It reached #3 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart...
    The three weeks it was at #2, the #1 record during that time was "I Love Rock ‘N Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
  • Guy from Woodinville, WaGreat energy! Interesting that this and Joan Jett's "I Love Rock and Roll" Were #1 and #2 at the same time in 1980. You go, girls!
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