Shake Your Groove Thing

"Shake Your Groove Thing"
File:Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches and Herb.jpg
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
"The Sound of Silence" (1971) "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) "Reunited" (1979)
Alternative cover 45 RPM single sleeve 45 RPM single sleeve

"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,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
Australia	13
Canada	5
Netherlands	22
UK	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

Chart (1994)	Peak position
UK	99

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)	Rank
Australia	99
Canada	38
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	31
U.S. Cash Box Top 100	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). The second was with The Chipettes for the 2009 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and its soundtrack.

References

• The Best of Peaches & Herb (liner notes).
• Whitburn, Joel. Hot Dance/Disco 1978–2003.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics