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Shake Your Groove Thing

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Released
  
December 1978

Recorded
  
1978

Format
  
7" single, 12" single

Genre
  
Disco

B-side
  
"All Your Love (Give It Here)"

Length
  
5:45 (Album version) 3:25 (7" version) 6:35 (12″ version)

"Shake Your Groove Thing" is a song by disco duo Peaches & Herb. The single reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Billboard R&B Chart. It also reached No. 2 for four weeks on the Billboard Disco chart in 1978. The song spent 22 weeks on the American charts, and became a Gold record.

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The song was their first return to the charts in seven years. During the hiatus, the third 'Peaches,' Linda "Peaches" Green, was chosen.

Personnel

  • Bob "Boogie" Bowles – guitar
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Scott Edwards – bass (uncredited)
  • Herb Fame – vocals
  • Larry Farrow – keyboards
  • James Gadson – drums
  • Linda "Peaches" Greene – vocals
  • Peter Manning Robinson – horn arrangements, string arrangements
  • David T. Walker – guitar
  • Bob Zimmitti – percussion

    • "Shake Your Groove Thing" has been featured prominently in many films such as An Extremely Goofy Movie, Monster, Shrek Forever After, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Connie and Carla, Marock, and The Country Bears, Everybody Wants Some!! as well as in an advertisement campaign by Intel in the late 1990s.

    It has also appeared in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on the fictional radio station K109 The Studio.

    Cover versions

  • In 1996, Filipino singer Regine Velasquez covered the song for her album Retro.
  • In 1997, Intel used this song in an advert for the Pentium MMX.
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks released two different cover versions. The first was with Drew Seeley for their 2008 album Undeniable which also appeared in the 2011 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked video game (without Drew's vocals). The second was with The Chipettes for the 2009 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and its soundtrack.

    • References

    Shake Your Groove Thing Wikipedia
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