Shake Your Groove Thing Explained

Shake Your Groove Thing
Type:single
Artist:Peaches & Herb
Album:2 Hot
B-Side:All Your Love (Give It Here)
Released:December 1978
Recorded:1978
Genre:Disco[1]
Length:5:45 (Album version)
3:25 (7" version)
6:35 (12″ version)
Label:Polydor
Producer:Freddie Perren
Prev Title:The Sound of Silence
Prev Year:1971
Next Title:Reunited
Next Year:1979

"Shake Your Groove Thing" is a song by R&B 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. It was their first hit with the third "Peaches", Linda Greene.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1979)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 13
Canada (RPM)[3] 5
22
New Zealand (RIANZ)[4] 10
UK Singles Chart[5] 26
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6] 5
U.S. Billboard National Disco Action Top 40[7] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles[8] 4
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[9] 5
Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[10] 71
UK Singles Chart99

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] 99
Canada[12] 38
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[13] 31
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[14] 50

Cover versions

Popular culture

It was heard in TV and movies like:

Other sources

Notes and References

  1. Killing Me Softly Edition. Hit Parade Music History and Music Trivia. Slate. Molanphy. Chris. March 25, 2022. March 23, 2024.
  2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives. 1993. 231. 0-646-11917-6.

  3. Web site: Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada . Bac-lac.gc.ca . 17 July 2013. 2016-10-13.
  4. http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20rianz&qartistid=1201#n_view_location Flavour of New Zealand, 27 May 1979
  5. Web site: shake+your+groove+thing | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company . Officialcharts.com . 2016-10-13.
  6. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 649.

  7. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 200.
  8. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 454.
  9. Web site: Top 100 1979-03-31 . . 2015-09-05 . dmy .
  10. Web site: The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 18 Dec 1994. Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). 2016-09-08.
  11. Web site: Kent Music Report No 288 – 31 December 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1979. Kent Music Report. Imgur.com. January 10, 2023.
  12. Web site: Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada . Bac-lac.gc.ca . 2016-10-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006200116/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6855a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6855a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6855a . 6 October 2016 . dmy .
  13. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979 . Musicoutfitters.com . 2016-10-13.
  14. Web site: Top 100 Year End Charts: 1979 . . 2016-04-12 . dmy .
  15. Web site: Intel Pentium II "Shake Your Groove Thing" 90s Commercial (1997) . youtube.com . 2022-08-08.
  16. Web site: Shake your groove thang . . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/E5xyED58ja4 . 2021-12-21 . live. 9 August 2021 . en.

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