Shake Your Groove Thing
| "Shake Your Groove Thing" | |||||||
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| Single by Peaches & Herb | |||||||
| from the album 2 Hot | |||||||
| B-side | "All Your Love (Give It Here)" | ||||||
| Released | December 1978 | ||||||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | ||||||
| Recorded | 1978 | ||||||
| Genre | Disco | ||||||
| Length |
5:45 (Album version) 3:25 (7" version) 6:35 (12″ version) | ||||||
| Label | Polydor | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren | ||||||
| Certification | Gold | ||||||
| Peaches & Herb singles chronology | |||||||
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"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.
The song was their first return to the charts in seven years. During the hiatus, the third 'Peaches,' Linda "Peaches" Green, was chosen.
In popular culture
"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,[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.
Chart performance
Weekly singles charts
| Chart (1979) | Peak position |
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| Australia [2] | 13 |
| Canada [3] | 5 |
| UK [4] | 26 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Disco chart | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard R&B chart | 4 |
| U.S. Cash Box Top 100[5] | 5 |
| Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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| UK [6] | 99 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1979) | Position |
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| Australia [7] | 99 |
| Canada | 38 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [8] | 31 |
| U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [9] | 50 |
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).[10] The second was with The Chipettes for the 2009 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and its soundtrack.[11]
References
- ↑ Allocine.fr
- ↑ http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
- ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4513a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4513a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4513a
- ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/shake%20your%20groove%20thing/
- ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/19790331.html
- ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/shake%20your%20groove%20thing/
- ↑ http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092
- ↑ http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1979.htm
- ↑ http://50.6.195.142/archives/70s_files/1979YESP.html
- ↑ "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked". Official Website. Majesco Entertainment. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version): Alvin And The Chipmunks: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- The Best of Peaches & Herb (liner notes).
- Whitburn, Joel. Hot Dance/Disco 1978–2003.
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