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| - The Jackson 5:Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
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| - 12-inch single
- Gramophone record
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Subject
| - 1978 singles
- 1978 songs
- Disco songs
- The Jackson 5 songs
- Songs written by Michael Jackson
- Songs written by Randy Jackson (The Jacksons)
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abstract
| - %22Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)%22 is a song recorded by The Jacksons for their 1978 album Destiny, and released as a single on December 8, 1978. It peaked at no. 7 in the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1979.The most successful of the Jacksons' recordings for Epic, %22Shake Your Body%22 (originally demoed as %22Shake a Body%22) was produced by the Jackson brothers, written by Randy and Michael, and featured Michael on lead vocals. The chorus %22let's dance/let's shout (shout)/shake your body down to the ground%22 was inspired by an ad-lib from Marvin Gaye's %22Got to Give It Up%22: %22Let's dance/let's shout (shout)/gettin' funky's what it's all about%22 and the rhythmic pattern from Teddy Pendergrass's %22Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose%22 (from his album Life Is a Song Worth Singing, released a couple of months previously).
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| - Michael Jackson
- Randy Jackson (The Jacksons)
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| - California
- in
- Los Angeles
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- August 1978
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| - The Jackson 5:Shake Your Body
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