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The backing music for the song was recorded using a group of Los Angeles session musicians nicknamed "The Wrecking Crew."The arrangement is credited to Harold Battiste, but Wrecking Crew bassist Carol Kaye asserts that at the session she devised the distinctive syncopated bass line that is featured on the released recording, replacing the original walking bass line in the prepared arrangement:
The Beat Goes On: The Best of Sonny & Cher is a collection of Sonny and Cher's classic Atco era recordings. Besides the duo's hits, it includes some Bono solo singles, most notably the 45 edit of "My Best Friend's Girl Is Out of Sight", from his 1967 solo album Inner Views.
The Beat Goes On: The Best of Sonny & Cher, 1991; The Beat Goes On (Emilie-Claire Barlow album), 2010; The Beat Goes On (Cash Cash album), 2012... and the Beat Goes On!, 1995 album by Scooter...The Beat Goes On, 2005 album by Blacklisted; The Beat Goes On, a 2009 album by Swedish singer Eva Eastwood; The Beat Goes On (Super Junior D&E EP), 2015
And the Beat Goes On" was the group's only number-one song on the dance chart. [5] It was also their first and biggest hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song also peaked at number 27 on the Canadian RPM chart. In 1996 after Phyllis Hyman died, the Whispers honored her with a musical: Thank God! The Beat ...
Big Swing Face is a 1967 live album by the Buddy Rich Big Band.Its "The Beat Goes On" is a feature for Buddy Rich's daughter Cathy, whose vocal performance was overdubbed at United Recording in Hollywood. [2]
Scoring hit records since the late 1960s, they are best known for their two number-one R&B singles, "And the Beat Goes On" in 1979 and "Rock Steady" in 1987. The Whispers scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, [1] and 8 top-ten R&B albums with two of them, The Whispers and Love Is Where You Find It, reaching the No. 1 spot. [2]
Their first three albums (Vanilla Fudge, The Beat Goes On, and Renaissance) were produced by Shadow Morton, whom the band met through The Rascals. [6] When Led Zeppelin first toured the United States in early 1969, they opened for Vanilla Fudge on some shows.
The song was written by Madonna and Williams, with rap vocals by West, and the title is a reference to The Whispers' disco track "And the Beat Goes On" (1980). [10] "Beat Goes On" is a disco song, [11] [12] [13] with funk and hip-hop influences, [10] drum beat and bell chimes, [14] as well as Williams' shimmering, thumping production, which ...