''Get Up and Boogie'' (sometimes also known simply as ''Silver Convention'') is the second studio album by the German disco group

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, and perhaps best known for including the song " Get Up and Boogie", which hit #1 on June 15, 1976 in Canada and reached #2 in the United States. Released in 1976, it proved popular on the dance floors and experienced some commercial success as well, reaching #9 on the Billboard Black Albums chart and #13 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. Critical reception of the album, both back then and today, was mixed, although an Allmusic review called it "a respectable, if uneven, Euro-disco effort that boasts the disco smash 'Get Up and Boogie'".

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allmusic.com The album has since been released on iTunes in several countries, sometimes under the title ''Silver Convention''.

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*Vocals – Penny McLean, Linda G. Thompson and Jackie Carter *Drums and Percussion –

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and Martin Harrison *Bass – Gary Unwin *Keyboards –

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