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Vacation, 1982
Written by Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle
After a machine-gun drum fill, the Go's launch into a surf-rock beach party. Heavy on the 1950s and early 1960s imagery, the song celebrates simple good times like in those Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello movies. It's a bit tongue in cheek but still all in good fun. "Groove on that groovy beat / It'll be boss keen neat, yeah." There's some deliberate genre-blending as the song calls out paisleys and black berets, the beatnik part of the equation, although a bit out of place on a beach. Most obscure reference, utterly unknown today: "The Lloyd Thaxton Show."