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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.

"Shake Your Groove Thing"
Side A of the New Zealand single
Single by Peaches & Herb
from the album 2 Hot
B-side	"All Your Love (Give It Here)"
Released	December 1978
Recorded	1978
Genre	Disco
Length	5:45 (Album version) 3:25 (7" version) 6:35 (12″ version)
Label	Polydor
Songwriter(s)	Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren
Peaches & Herb singles chronology
"The Sound of Silence" (1971) "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) "Reunited" (1979)

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)[1]	13
Canada (RPM)[2]	5
Netherlands	22
New Zealand (RIANZ)[3]	10
UK[4]	26
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5]	5
U.S. Billboard National Disco Action Top 40 chart[6]	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart[7]	4
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8]	5

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[9]	71
UK[4]	99

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)	Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[10]	99
Canada[11]	38
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12]	31
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[13]	50

Cover versions

• In 1996, Filipino singer Regine Velasquez covered the song for her album Retro.^{[citation needed]}
• Shrek Forever After sung by The Pied Piper,
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel sung by The Chipmunks and The Chipettes

Popular culture

• In 1997, Intel used this song in an advert for the Pentium II that arrives in New York.[14]

It was heard in TV and movies like:

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• An Extremely Goofy Movie
• The Country Bears
• Shrek Forever After
• Scandal.[15]

References

Other sources

• The Best of Peaches & Herb (liner notes).

External links

• Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing on YouTube

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