Shake Your Groove Thing

"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.

"Shake Your Groove Thing"
A-side label of U.S. vinyl release
Single by Peaches & Herb
from the album 2 Hot
B-side"All Your Love (Give It Here)"
ReleasedDecember 1978
Format7" single, 12" single
Recorded1978
GenreDisco
Length5:45 (Album version)
3:25 (7" version)
6:35 (12″ version)
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren
Peaches & Herb singles chronology
"The Sound of Silence"
(1971)		 "Shake Your Groove Thing"
(1978)		 "Reunited"
(1979)
Alternative cover
Dutch release

The song was their first return to the charts in seven years. It was their first hit with the third "Peaches", Linda Greene.

"Shake Your Groove Thing" has been featured prominently in many films such as An Extremely Goofy Movie, Monster, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Connie and Carla, Marock, and The Country Bears,[1] 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.

In television, "Shake Your Groove Thing" has been used in the animated series Guardians of the Galaxy (which, as per the live-action film it is based on, uses popular music of the 1970s and early 1980s as part of its soundtrack), appearing in the first season episode "Hitchin' a Ride" and on the series' soundtrack album, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Mix Vol. 1 (Music from the Animated Television Series). The song is played also in Shrek 4, by Pied Piper, and on The Drew Carey Show, in a mashup with The Time Warp from the 1975 movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The song also prominently appears in a musical sequence of That '70s Show. The song also appeared in season seven of political drama show Scandal.[2]

A parody of the song called "Shake your tail now" used by Mickey was used in the 2010 toy Dance Star Mickey. The song was also used in Just Dance Kids 2.

Chart performance

Cover versions

References
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  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 231. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
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  6. "Top 100 1979-03-31". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  7. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 18 Dec 1994". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  8. Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
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  10. "Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  11. "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1979". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-12.

Other sources
  • The Best of Peaches & Herb (liner notes).
  • Whitburn, Joel. Hot Dance/Disco 1978–2003, Record Research Inc., 2004, ISBN 978-0898201567
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