Vamos a la playa (Righeira song)

"Vamos a la playa"
Righeira wearing white shorts and sunglasses.
Single by Righeira
from the album Righeira
LanguageSpanish
B-side
  • "Vamos a la playa (Italian Version)"
  • "Playa Dub"
Released1983
GenreItalo disco[1]
Length
  • 3:39 (album version)
  • 3:40 (single version)
LabelCGD
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)La Bionda
Righeira singles chronology
"Tanzen mit Righeira"
(1983) 		"Vamos a la playa"
(1983) 		"No tengo dinero"
(1983)
Music video
"Vamos a la playa" on YouTube

"Vamos a la playa" is a song by the Italian Italo disco duo Righeira, released in 1983 as the second single from their debut studio album, Righeira (1983). It was written by Johnson Righeira, the duo's lead vocalist, and producer Carmelo La Bionda.[2] The song was the duo's only charting hit in the UK, peaking at number 53 on the UK Singles Chart. The single also went to number one in Italy as well as the Swiss Hitparade. It reached number two on both the Belgian Ultratop chart and the Dutch Top 40[3] and on the Official German Charts it peaked at number three.

Despite its ostensibly innocuous beach theme, the song actually talks about the explosion of an atomic bomb.[4]

  1. ^ Kringiel, Danny (27 April 2010). "Italo-Disco – Wammosallaplaia, ohououo!" (in German). Spiegel Online. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Righeira". Samigo.com (in Italian). Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference fla was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Conze, Eckart; Klimke, Martin; Varon, Jeremy, eds. (2017). Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s. Cambridge University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-107-13628-1.