Shake Your Groove Thing


"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. It was their first hit with the third "Peaches", Linda Greene.

In popular culture

"Shake Your Groove Thing" has been featured prominently in many films such as An Extremely Goofy Movie, Monster, 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 on the fictional radio station K109 The Studio.
In television, "Shake Your Groove Thing" has been used in the animated series Guardians of the Galaxy, appearing in the first season episode "Hitchin' a Ride" and on the series' soundtrack album, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Mix Vol. 1 . The song is played also in Shrek 4, by Pied Piper, and on The Drew Carey Show, in a mashup with The Time Warp from the 1975 movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The song also prominently appears in a musical sequence of That '70s Show. The song also appeared in season seven of political drama show Scandal.
A parody of the song called "Shake your tail now" used by Mickey was used in the 2010 toy Dance Star Mickey.
The song was also used in Just Dance Kids 2.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart Peak
position
Australia71
UK99

Year-end charts

Cover versions