Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)

"Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)"
Single by Technotronic
from the album Pump Up the Jam: The Album
Released22 January 1990 (1990-01-22)[1]
Genre
Length
  • 5:37 (album version cold end)
  • 4:51 (album version fade)
  • 3:30 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Manuella Kamosi
  • Jo Bogaert
Producer(s)Thomas de Quincey
Technotronic singles chronology
"Pump Up the Jam"
(1989)
"Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)"
(1990)
"This Beat Is Technotronic"
(1990)
Music video
"Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)" on YouTube

"Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over)" is a song by Belgian musical group Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K. It was released in January 1990 as the second single from the band's debut album, Pump Up the Jam: The Album (1989), on which it features as the second track. The single was successful in many countries, becoming a top 10 hit in Australia, Canada, and the US and topping the chart in Belgium, Finland, Spain and Switzerland. When the song entered the UK chart at number three, it completed the first ever UK top 3 composed entirely of acts from outside the UK or US, alongside the Australian Kylie Minogue and the Irish Sinéad O'Connor.

In 1998 and 1999, it was re-released respectively under the title "Get Up (the '98 Sequel)" and "Get Up (the 1999 Sequel)". The song appears in Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 4 and Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix. It contains a vocal sample of James Brown's "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved".[2] In 2007, the song was covered by Global Deejays (featuring Technotronic) who achieved a minor success in France.[3]

  1. ^ "New Singles". Music Week. 20 January 1990. p. 57.
  2. ^ "Technotronic's 'Get Up (Before the Night Is Over)' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Get Up ! (Before the Night Is Over)" (by Global Deejays), Lescharts.com (Retrieved 11 January 2009)