Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)

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"Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"

Single by The Jacksons
from the album Destiny
Released	December 1978
Format	7" single
Recorded	Los Angeles, August 1978
Genre	Disco
Length	8.00 album version, 3:54 single version
Label	Epic 8-50656
Writer(s)	Michael Jackson Randy Jackson
Producer(s)	The Jacksons
Chart positions
#7 (US Pop Singles) #3 (US R&B Singles) #4 (UK Singles Chart)
The Jacksons singles chronology
"Blame It on the Boogie" (1978)	"Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" (1978)	"Destiny" (1979)

"Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)", released in December 1978, is a 1979 hit single recorded by The Jacksons for CBS/Epic Records

The most successful of the Jacksons' disco/funk-era recordings for Epic, "Shake Your Body" (originally demoed as "Shake a Body") was produced by the Jackson brothers, written by Michael and Randy Jackson, and featured Michael on lead vocals.

Released to radio in a single edit of three minutes and forty-five seconds and played in its full nearly seven-minute version by clubs, the single charted at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number three on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. "Shake Your Body" sold over two million copies, attaining double-platinum status from the Recording Industry Association of America.

The single was later sampled by musical artist Shaggy for the single "Dance and Shout".

[edit] Credits

Lead vocals by Michael Jackson
Background vocals by Jackie Jackson, Randy Jackson, Tito Jackson, and Marlon Jackson
Vocal arrangements by The Jacksons
Rhythm arrangements by Greg Phillinganes
Horn and strings arranged by Tom Tom 84
Keyboards and synthesizers by Greg Phillinganes and Mike Boddicker
Drums by Ed Green,
Percussion by Paulinho da Costa