Vacation

on Vacation

by The Go-Go's

First Played: 03/23/2005 07:00 AM
Last Played: 10/27/2022 10:18 PM
Total Plays: 14

Play history

• 10/27/2022 10:18 PM: Marco Collins  
   
• 06/17/2022 07:12 AM: John Richards  
  Last day of school! Please play Vacation by the Go Gos for Julia, who's finishing 2nd Grade! ❤️❤️❤️ ---Julie -- Go-Go's bass player Kathy Valentine wrote this song in 1980 when she was a member of a Los Angeles band called The Textones. Kathy grew up in Austin, Texas, and on a trip back to the city, met a dreamy boy named Billy who sang in a band called Boy Problems. On the flight back to LA, she wrote these lines on a napkin: Now that I'm away, I wish I'd stayed Tomorrow's a day of mine you won't be in "The short romance had softened me, and the words, written from true-life longing, resonated forever," she wrote in her memoir, "All I Ever Wanted."
• 06/10/2022 05:13 PM: Kevin Cole  
  KEXP's One Day Summer Drive 14: KEXP DJs Top Summer Jams Countdown Go-Go's bass player Kathy Valentine wrote this song in 1980 when she was a member of a Los Angeles band called The Textones. Kathy grew up in Austin, Texas, and on a trip back to the city, met a dreamy boy named Billy who sang in a band called Boy Problems. On the flight back to LA, she wrote these lines on a napkin: Now that I'm away, I wish I'd stayed Tomorrow's a day of mine you won't be in "The short romance had softened me, and the words, written from true-life longing, resonated forever," she wrote in her memoir, All I Ever Wanted.
• 05/29/2022 03:27 PM: Lisa LeClair  
  Go-Go's bass player Kathy Valentine wrote this song in 1980 when she was a member of a Los Angeles band called The Textones. Kathy grew up in Austin, Texas, and on a trip back to the city, met a dreamy boy named Billy who sang in a band called Boy Problems. On the flight back to LA, she wrote these lines on a napkin: Now that I'm away, I wish I'd stayed Tomorrow's a day of mine you won't be in "The short romance had softened me, and the words, written from true-life longing, resonated forever," she wrote in her memoir, "All I Ever Wanted."
• 01/07/2022 08:14 PM: Michele Myers  
  Happy birthday set to bassist Kathy Valentine of the Go-Gos! https://www.gogos.com/
• 01/07/2022 09:47 AM: John Richards  
  Go-Go's bass player Kathy Valentine wrote this song in 1980 when she was a member of a Los Angeles band called The Textones. Kathy grew up in Austin, Texas, and on a trip back to the city, met a dreamy boy named Billy who sang in a band called Boy Problems. On the flight back to LA, she wrote these lines on a napkin: Now that I'm away, I wish I'd stayed Tomorrow's a day of mine you won't be in "The short romance had softened me, and the words, written from true-life longing, resonated forever," she wrote in her memoir, "All I Ever Wanted."
• 08/01/2021 03:44 PM: Marco Collins  
   
• 03/10/2021 10:44 PM: Hans  
   
• 11/13/2020 09:26 AM: John Richards  
  In the video for "Vacation," the girls appear to be water-skiing in formation. "We still saw videos as an annoying waste of time," recalls Jane Wiedlin. "After seven or eight hours we sent out someone to sneak in booze." Kathy Valentine says they drank "lots of champagne. Lots." Wiedlin says the effects are evident during the closeups of the women at the end: "... if you look at our eyes, we're all so drunk. We didn't even try to make it look like we were really waterskiing.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RHTiXvELNg
• 07/16/2020 09:01 AM: John Richards  
  Vacation, all I ever wanted Vacation, had to get away Vacation, meant to be spent alone A song that is surprisingly relevant for this summer pandemic season.
• 05/20/2020 04:33 PM: Kevin Cole  
  Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin (born May 20, 1958) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actress best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the new wave band, the Go-Go's While attending college in the Los Angeles area, for fashion design, Wiedlin worked at a fashion design house where she created song lyrics, by scribbling down ideas on clothing patterns. "Jane Drano," as she came to be known, would later design punk-style clothing that she sold at Granny Takes a Trip, a store on Sunset Boulevard. She became part of the scene that spawned bands like X, the Germs, and The Weirdos.
• 03/24/2020 09:48 AM: John Richards  
  Katie writes, John, You don’t know the happiness I feel when I turn the radio on in the morning and find that you are still there. Having some sense of normalcy in this weird time is so comforting. We are so so so so so lucky to have you and the rest of the KEXP family to keep us company.
• 06/16/2015 01:51 AM: Hans  
   
• 03/23/2005 07:00 AM: John Richards