The Go-Go's Smackdown 1: The Andrews Sisters Quiz

Answer: The Go-Go's

Charlotte Caffey wrote "We Got the Beat" and The Go-Go's released this song on the album "Beauty and the Beat" on 8 Jul 1981.

The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat" ranked on 16 music charts in three countries for 38 weeks from 9 Aug to 12 Dec 1980 and from 30 Jan to 11 Jun 1982 peaking number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Go-Go's first released "We Got the Beat" as a single backed with "How Much More" in the United Kingdom on 9 May 1980, which was ten months before The Go-Go's signed their first recording contract on 1 Apr 1981.

Answer: The Go-Go's

Kathy Valentine wrote "Can't Stop the World" and The Go-Go's released this song on the album "Beauty and the Beat" on 8 Jul 1981.

Answer: The Go-Go's

Jane Wiedlin wrote "This Old Feeling" and The Go-Go's released this song on the album "Vacation" on 20 Jul 1982.

The songs "This Old Feeling" and "You Thought" contain the largest number in the lyrics of The Go-Go's songs with "a million times said in as many songs but before you, I could never sing along" and "situations all invented, a million in your head," respectively.

Answer: The Go-Go's

Kathy Valentine, Danny B. Harvey and Carlene Carter co-wrote "I'm the Only One" and The Go-Go's released this song on the album "Talk Show" on 19 Mar 1984.

The songs "I'm the Only One" and "Yes or No" contain the most writers on the lyrics of The Go-Go's songs with Jane Wiedlin, Ron Mael and Russell Mael co-writing "Yes or No" on the same album.

Answer: The Go-Go's

Jane Wiedlin, Belinda Carlisle and Margot Olavarria co-wrote "Blades" and The Go-Go's released this song on the album "Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's" on 18 Oct 1994.

Margot is a co-founder and original bassist of The Go-Go's, and "Blades" is her only lyrical credit during her two years and ten months with the band.

Answer: The Andrews Sisters

Jacob Jacobs wrote "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" for the musical "I Would If I Could" in 1932 and five years later, The Andrews Sister released this song on the B-side of the single "Nice Work If You Can Get It" on 1 Dec 1937.

The Andrews Sisters' version of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" ranked on two music charts for 13 weeks from 1 Jan to 26 Mar 1938 peaking at number one on the Billboard Best Selling Singles and Your Hit Parade.

The phrase "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön" is German for "To Me, You Are Beautiful" and "Bierbrille" is German for "beer goggles."

Answer: The Andrews Sisters

Don Raye and Hughie Prince co-wrote "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and The Andrews Sisters recorded this song for Abbott and Costello's film "Buck Privates" on 31 Jan 1941.

The Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" ranked on the Billboard National Best Selling Retail Records for seven weeks from 28 Mar to 9 May 1941 peaking at number six.

According to SecondHandSongs, 78 artists also recorded "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" on a single, album or soundtrack since "Buck Privates" premiered at the Times Square Theater on 13 Feb 1941.

Answer: The Andrews Sisters

Johnny Mercer wrote "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" and The Andrews Sisters with Bing Crosby released their version of this song as a single backed with "There's a Fellow Waiting in Poughkeepsie" in January 1945.

The Andrews Sisters' "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" ranked on the Billboard Best Selling Retail Records for nine weeks from 25 Jan to 22 Mar 1945 peaking at number two.

The word "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate" is phonetic for "accentuate" and according to Johnny Mercer's interview on John Gilliland's Pop Chronicles "I went to hear [Reverend] Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said, 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase'" (Gilliland, 1972).

Answer: The Andrews Sisters

Lord Invader (Rupert Grant) wrote "Rum and Coca-Cola" and The Andrews Sisters released this song as a single backed with "One Meat Ball" in December 1944.

Although "Rum and Coca-Cola" is one of The Andrews Sisters' biggest hits, it is also one of their most controversial songs.

According to the biography "Swing It!: The Andrews Sisters Story," a court ruled both the lyrics and melody were plagiarized from two Trinidadian songs and because the lyrics also glorified hard liquor, suggested US servicemembers solicited prostitutes and repeatedly evoked "Coca-Cola" as free advertising, all four major American radio networks...CBS, MBS, NBC and The Blue Network...banned broadcasting the song over the public airwaves.

Despite these setbacks, "['Rum and Coca-Cola'] sold a whopping seven million copies. Demand for the disc was so great that Decca had to borrow shellac (in short supply during the war) from other record companies in order to press the number of records needed for public demand" (Sforza, 2000, pp. 75-76).

The Andrews Sisters' "Rum and Coca-Cola" ranked on two music charts for 20 weeks from 6 Jan to 19 May 1945 peaking at number one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart.

Answer: The Andrews Sisters

Ray McKinley, Hughie Prince and Don Raye co-wrote "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" and The Andrews Sisters released this song as a single backed with "Pennsylvania 6-5000" in October 1940.

The Andrews Sisters' "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" ranked on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for 14 weeks from 2 Nov 1940 to 1 Feb 1941 peaking at number two.

Daddy did a lot of "beating" because seven other artists also released versions of this song in 1940. Will Bradley and His Orchestra's version also ranked on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for 15 weeks from 21 Sep to 28 Dec 1940 peaking at number two. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra's version ranked on the same chart for two weeks from 19-26 Oct 1940 peaking at number 15. Only Woody Herman and His Orchestra's version in November 1940 did not rank on any music charts.

In the United Kingdom, George Shearing, Harry Roy and His Band and Joe Loss and His Orchestra also released versions of "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" in 1940; however, their versions also didn't rank any music charts because there were no music charts for singles in the United Kingdom in 1940.