The Beat Goes On
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| Single by Sonny & Cher | |
| Released | 1967 |
| Recorded | 1967 |
| Genre | Pop, Rock |
"The Beat Goes On" is a Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit song written by Sonny Bono and recorded by Sonny & Cher. It was issued as a single and appeared on their 1967 album In Case You're In Love. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 14, 1967, peaking at #2.
"The Beat Goes On" was sung at Sonny Bono's funeral, and the phrase also appears on his tombstone.
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[edit] Live performances
Cher performed the song on the following concert tours:
- Do You Believe? Tour (Instrumental during "Sonny & Cher Sequence")
- The Farewell Tour (2002-2005) (Video Interlude during "Sonny & Cher Medley")
- Cher at the Colosseum
[edit] Cover versions
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| Single by All Seeing I | ||||
| B-side | "Booty in the I" | |||
| Released | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Pop, Trip Hop | |||
| Length | 4:03 | |||
| Label | Earth Records, FFRR | |||
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Over the years the song has been covered by numerous artists. In 1967, American jazz musician Buddy Rich made a version with his daughter Cathy on vocals (Buddy was joking when he said she was only 12 at the time, she was actually 19).[1] The song was covered by Gabor Szabo on his 1967 album "The Sorcerer". Other versions were recorded by jazz pianist/singer Patricia Barber, Italian singer Mina, and the French duo Casino Music. In 1982, the Canadian dance act Orbit remade the single into a electro-funk track, produced by John Lewis, Jack Tann and Don Was, featuring American gospel singer Carol Hall on vocals. Although this version never charted in the United States, it did receive some airplay at radio.
In 1998 a version by British electronic music group All Seeing I peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart.[2] The group also produced a cover version of the song for Britney Spears in November 1998, as the last track on ...Baby One More Time. "The Beat Goes On" is the first track on Songs We Should Have Written (2004) by Firewater. In 2008, a version by the French acid jazz group Le Cercle was included on their album "Magnetic".
A variation on the song was used in 1968 to advertise the Plymouth line of automobiles.
This song is incorrectly referred to as "And The Beat Goes On" due to the closing lyric adding the word "and" to the song's title. There was an unrelated song released in 1980 titled "And the Beat Goes On" (recorded by The Whispers).
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