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"We Got the Beat" is a song by the American rock band the Go-Go's, written by the group's lead guitarist and keyboardist Charlotte Caffey. The band first recorded the song in 1980 for a single on UK-based Stiff Records , and later rerecorded it for their debut album Beauty and the Beat on I.R.S. Records .
Charlotte Irene Caffey (born October 21, 1953) is an American guitarist and pianist, best known for her work in the rock band the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing "We Got the Beat". Career [ edit ]
Beauty and the Beat is the debut album from California new wave band the Go-Go's.Released July 14, 1981 [2] on the I.R.S. Records label, the album reached number one on Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart in March 1982, bolstered by its two big Hot 100 hit singles: "Our Lips Are Sealed" (no. 20) and "We Got the Beat" (no. 2), released in 1980, but in a different version.
An instrumental of the song was included in the video game EA Sports College Football 25 as recorded by the EA Sports College Football Marching Band. [8] This song's association with marching bands inspired the similarly named "Talkin' Out da Side of Ya Neck!", a 2008 single by Dem Franchize Boyz.
In music, a drum cadence or street beat is a work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band (see marching percussion). It is stylistically descended from early military marches , and related to military cadences , as both are a means of providing a beat while marching .
The Hale Center High School marching band competes in the preliminary round of the UIL State Marching Band Championships on Nov. 8, 2022 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. ... We asked Camellia ...
Head Over Heels is a jukebox musical comedy with music and lyrics from the catalog of The Go-Go's. Jeff Whitty conceived the show and wrote the original book, which was then adapted by James Magruder after Whitty left the show due to conflict with incoming director Michael Mayer.
According to Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle, "How Much More" was written in early 1980 during a spate in which Caffey and Wiedlin wrote several other songs including "We Got the Beat" and "Lust to Love". [2] According to Caffey, she started the song and Wiedlin helped her finish it not long after she joined the band.