“Shake Your Groove Thing” by Peaches & Herb is today’s song of the day.
Fun Facts
- Herb is the shortened first name of Herbert Feemster.
- Feemster (Herb) was discovered working in a record store by record producer Van McCoy who signed him to record solo records.
- “Peaches” was the nickname of Francine Barker.
- “Peaches” was part of a trio called The Darlettes, also signed by McCoy.
- At McCoy’s suggestion, The Darlettes began recording duos with Feemster. One of those recordings, a remake of the 1934 hit “Let’s Fall in Love,” made its way onto the “B” side of the single “We’re In This Thing Together.”
- It took a few more months for disc jockeys to begin playing “Let’s Fall in Love,” the song that launched the duo Peaches and Herb
- After two years of success and rigorous touring, Barker left the duo and was replaced by Marlene Mack of The Jaynetts fame. Peaches and Herb retired from the act in 1970.
- Herb Feemster was a police officer in Washington DC until 1976, when he decided to get the Peaches and Herb duo back together. With McCoy, Feemster chose Linda Greene, the third of a total of seven Peaches that would be part of the duo.
- Greene and Feemster (Peaches and Herb) recorded seven albums.
- “Shake Your Groove Thing” is on the album 2 Hot, the duo’s second album. The single achieved gold status and reached #5 Billboard’s Hot 100 in March 1979.
Lyrics:
Shake it, shake it
Shake your groove thing,
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
Show ’em how we do it now
Let’s show the world we can dance
Bad enough to strut our stuff
The music gives us a chance
We do more out on the floor
Groovin’ loose or heart-to-heart
We put in motion every single part
Funky sounds wall to wall
We’re bumpin’ booties, havin’ us a ball, y’all
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
We got the rhythm tonight
All the rest know we’re the best
Our shadows crash in the light
Twistin’, turnin’, we keep burnin’
Shake it high or shake it low
We take our bodies where they wanna go
Feel that beat, never stop
Oh, hold me tight, spin me like a top
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
There’s nothing more that I’d like to do
Than take the floor and dance with you
Keep dancin’, let’s keep dancin’
Shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it
Groovin’ loose or heart-to-heart
We put in motion every single part
Funky sounds wall to wall
We’re bumpin’ booties, havin’ us a ball, y’all
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show ’em how we do it now, yeah
Shake it
Show ’em how we do it now, yeah
Shake it, shake it
Shake it
Doo, doo, doo, wow
Shake it
Doo, doo, doo, wow
Shake your groove thing
Shake your groove thing
Show ’em how we do it now
Let’s get on down
Show ’em how we do it now
Show ’em how we do it now
Whoo, ooh
Show ’em how we do it now
Shake your groove thing
Shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it, a bumpin’ booty, now
Shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it, a little freaky now
Shake it, shake it
A shake it, shake it, a do it to it, y’all
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