Vacation

Greatly Appreciated

VACATION
 
 
Vacation  is the second studio album by the American rock band The Go-Go’s, released in 1982 on the I.R.S. Records label.  The album reached No. 8 in the U.S. Billboard 200, and was certified gold.  The title track was a U.S. summer smash, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.  Besides the title track, two more singles were pulled from the album at the time:  “Get Up and Go” and “This Old Feeling”, which were minor hits in the United States.  A fourth song featured on the album, the cover version of the 1960’s hit “Cool Jerk”, appeared as a single in 1991 to promote the band’s first compilation album, Greatest.  The single “Vacation” was also issued as what was perhaps the first cassette single ever.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
The American songwriter/producer trio of Bob FeldmanJerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer has been a veritable cauldron of one-hit wonders over the years.  I later saw Richard Gottehrer’s name on recordings by Blondie, and he produced the first two albums by the Go-Go’sBeauty and the Beat and Vacation.   
 
(May 2012)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021