Get Up and Boogie (song)

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"Get Up and Boogie"
Get Up and Boogie by Silver Convention German vinyl single.jpg
Artwork for German vinyl single
Single by Silver Convention
from the album Get Up and Boogie
B-side "Son of a Gun"
ReleasedMarch 1976
Genre Disco
Length2:49 (single version)
4:00 (album version)
Label Midland International
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Stephan Prager
Silver Convention singles chronology
"Fly, Robin, Fly"
(1975)
"Get Up and Boogie"
(1976)
"Tiger Baby"
(1976)

"Get Up and Boogie" is a song by German disco act Silver Convention from their 1976 second album of the same name. The song was written and composed by Sylvester Levay and Stephan Prager, and produced by Prager. [1] The song was released as the lead single from the album Get Up and Boogie (also titled Silver Convention in some countries) in 1976.

Contents

Composition

Similar to their previous 1975 hit single "Fly, Robin, Fly", the lyrics of "Get Up and Boogie" consists only of two phrases, "Get up and boogie!" and "That's right!" repeated throughout the song.

Reception

"Get Up and Boogie" hit number one on June 15, 1976 in Canada, [2] and reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, [3] being kept off the No. 1 spot by Wings' "Silly Love Songs". [4] Billboard ranked it as the #24 song for 1976. [5] "Get Up and Boogie" also became a hit during the late-1970s disco scene.

Covers and samples

Charts

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