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Gett Your Drink On

album by Anthony Harley

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ30590954 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gett Your Drink On is a studio album originally released on July 15, 1997 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Lil' Benny and the Masters.

Track listing

"I Never Seen a Man Cry" (Jesse Johnson/Brad Jordan) – 5:13

"Brother to Brother" (Anthony Harley/William "Ju-Ju" House) – 7:23

"Hope" (Anthony Harley/William "Ju-Ju" House) – 2:54

"Hit and Run" – 1:46

"Let Me Show You/The Message" – 7:13

"How You Going to Carry It" – 6:20

"Gett on the Wagon" – 6:48

"Bellow-Meso-Bardo" (Chuck Brown) – 5:06

"Hello" (Chuck Brown) – 3:53

"Gett Your Drink On" (Greg Ellis/Louie Oxley) – 6:54

"Can I Get Down" – 4:37

"Walk" (Anthony Harley/Mark Lawson) – 5:50

Personnel

Anthony "Lil Benny" Harley – rapping, trumpet, vocals

Stan Cooper – guitar

Bennie Dancy Jr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gett Your Drink On” as album by Anthony Harley. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gett, Your and Drink.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gett, Your and Drink providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gett Your Drink On”, the useful work is to connect “album by Anthony Harley” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30590954. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gett Your Drink On” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.