| "Vacation" | ||||
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:VacationGoGos.jpg) Standard picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by the Go-Go's | ||||
| from the album Vacation | ||||
| B-side | "Beatnik Beach" | |||
| Released | July 20, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:59 | |||
| Label | I.R.S. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Richard Gottehrer | |||
| The Go-Go's singles chronology | ||||
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"Vacation" is a 1982 single released by the all-female rock band, the Go-Go's. The song was the first single from the album, Vacation.
The song became one of the Go-Go's highest charting singles, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1982, being the band's second and final US top-10 hit. The song was released on 7" vinyl format, with the surf rock song "Beatnik Beach" as the single's B-side. "Vacation" carries the distinction of being released as the first known cassette single or "cassingle" as trademarked by I.R.S. Records.[1]
Billboard called it a "perfect summer record" saying it is "uptempo, optimistic and the aural companion for lazy days at the beach.[2] Cash Box called it "propulsive power pop."[3]
A previous version of "Vacation" written solely by Kathy Valentine was an EP and later 45 by the earlier band she was in, The Textones. Both the EP and 45 were on Chiswick Records in the United Kingdom.
- ^ "Retail Test for Go-Go's Cassingle". Billboard. Vol. 94, no. 25. June 26, 1982. p. 4. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
- ^ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. July 3, 1982. p. 60. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
- ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. July 3, 1982. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-07-07.