The Graces were a US

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 band in the late 1980s and early 1990s featuring Charlotte Caffey

Charlotte Caffey

Charlotte Irene Caffey is an American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter, best known for her work in the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing "We Got the Beat."...

, Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Ann Brooks is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.- Early life :...

, and Gia Ciambotti

Gia Ciambotti

Gia Ciambotti is an American singer. She first came to prominence in the late 1980s as a member of the band The Graces, with Charlotte Caffey and Meredith Brooks. The group released the album Perfect View in 1989 and had a Billboard Hot 100 hit with the single "Lay Down Your Arms"...

. Formed in 1988, they released their debut album

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 Perfect View on A&M Records

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 in 1989. Their first single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 "Lay Down Your Arms

Lay Down Your Arms (The Graces song)

"Lay Down Your Arms" is a pop rock song which Charlotte Caffey, Ralph Schuckett and Ellen Shipley wrote and composed, and which Shipley produced, for The Graces's first album Perfect View . Caffey was the lead vocalist on the song, and it was released as the band's debut single...

" hit #56 on the Billboard Hot 100

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 but the album and subsequent singles flopped. In 1991 they were dropped by the record label

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 and Brooks left the band. She was replaced by Chrissy Shefts and the group continued to play live. They were about to be re-signed when Ciambotti was offered a gig in the Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

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 band, so the group disbanded in 1992 without recording a second album. Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...

 later covered

Cover version

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 "Lay Down Your Arms" on her 1993 album Real

Real (Belinda Carlisle album)

Real is the fifth studio album by American singer Belinda Carlisle, first released on September 29, 1993. The album has a genre of mainly pop songs written by Charlotte Caffey, Thomas Caffey, Ralph Schuckett and half co-written by Carlisle...

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Singles

• "Lay Down Your Arms
  Lay Down Your Arms (The Graces song)
  "Lay Down Your Arms" is a pop rock song which Charlotte Caffey, Ralph Schuckett and Ellen Shipley wrote and composed, and which Shipley produced, for The Graces's first album Perfect View . Caffey was the lead vocalist on the song, and it was released as the band's debut single...
  
  " (1989) US
  Billboard Hot 100
  The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
  
  #56
• "Perfect View" (1989)
• "Time Waits For No One" (1989)
• "50,000 Candles Burning" (1989)