Peaches and Herb
Shake Your Groove Thing (Promo 12")
RECORD LABEL / RELEASE INFO
Polydor Records (US) / 1978 PRO 055
12" Disco single 33 ⅓ rpm Vinyl record - white label promotional copy with B/W title sleeve
Genre: Dance
MUSICIAN, PRODUCTION & RECORDING STUDIO CREDITS
Producer: Freddie Perren for Grand Slam Productions
Writer: Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren
SONGS - TRACKLISTING
Side A
Shake Your Groove Thing (6:36)
Side B
Shake Your Groove Thing (6:36)
MUSIC REVIEW & RECORD COLLECTOR NOTES
Peaches and Herb had huge success with their Disco smash, "Shake Your Groove Thing" in 1978. Peaches & Herb were a husband and wife duo from the Washington D.C. area.
Listen to Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches and Herb:
Submitted by DiscoMusic.com (3705)
Perhaps the most underrated "Disco 101" record.
The Top-5 1978 single is Styrofoam; how I hated it! But the 12" comes magically alive with a brilliant horn arrangement and guitar solo, and smack-down rhythm revealed only by the engineering of the club version.
The vocals are as ridiculous as you remember ("...we're bumpin' bootys, havin' ourselves a ball, y'all"!"), and tightly wrought as CHIC's; and more fun overall, if you're in the mood! Produced by Freddie Perren: what more can I say?
The quality of the 12" "Share Your Groove Thing" makes Peaches & Herb's sudden comeback from two top-10 smooch ballads a decade earlier (with a new "Peaches," no less!) seem less a disco-era freak than an inevitablity. No fair comparing "disco classics," but I greatly prefer this to "Boogie Oogie Oogie," which outsold "Shake Your Groove Thing" and is more fondly remembered. I'll credit the differece, snobbishly, to slacker rhythms that made A Taste Of Honey easier going for people who COULD NOT DANCE!
The grace of Peaches & Herb's disco debut would not continue, although "Reunited" returned them to syrupy, class-ring roots with superlative sales: as I remember, this and their rivals' "Boogie, Oogie, Oogie" were among no more than one or two hundred platinum (2 million+)-selling 45 rpm singles in the history of rock n' roll...