Shake Your Love

"Shake Your Love"
Single by Debbie Gibson
from the album Out of the Blue
A-side Vocal (3:46)
B-side Bad Dubb Version (5:03) (U.S., 89187)
"Wake Up to Love" (Vocal/3:42) (U.K., A9187)
Released September 1987
Recorded March 1987
Genre Dance-pop
Length Album Version 3:38
Single Version 3:32
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Deborah Gibson
Producer(s) Fred Zarr
Debbie Gibson singles chronology
"Only in My Dreams"
(1987)
"Shake Your Love"
(1987)
"Out of the Blue"
(1988)

"Shake Your Love" (Atlantic 89187, Atlantic UK A9187) is the second single by American singer-songwriter-actress Deborah Gibson, and the lead off single for her album Out of the Blue (LP 81780). Originally recorded in the spring of 1987 for the Dream Tour, the song is written by Gibson herself and produced by Fred Zarr and engineered by Don Feinberg for BiZarr Music, Inc., with Douglas Breitbart as executive producer (see also Debbie Gibson). It reached number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in December 1987 and was her breakthrough single in the U.K., reaching number seven in early 1988.[1] Both tracks on the U.S.-specification single also appeared among the six total tracks of the simultaneously released maxi-single (Atlantic DM 86651), which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Maxi-Singles chart.

The music video to support this single, eventually included on Gibson's video album Out of the Blue (Atlantic VHS 50123) was set on a facsimile of a drive-in movie theater lot and choreographed by Paula Abdul.

In 2010, Gibson re-recorded the song as an extra track for the Deluxe Edition release of the Japan-exclusive album Ms. Vocalist.

Track Listing (Atlantic DM 86651)

"Shake Your Love"

  1. Shake Your Love [Vocal Club Mix] 5:53
  2. Shake Your Love [Bonus Beats] 6:52
  3. Shake Your Love [Vocal LP Version] 3:37
  4. Shake Your Love [Bad Dub Version] 4:55
  5. Shake Your Love [Vocal Bass Apella] 3:25
  6. Shake Your Love [Shake The House Version] 5:48

(Deborah Gibson) Music Sales Corp., ASCAP

Versions

Chart

Chart (1987-1988) Peak
position
Ireland 3
USA 4
United Kingdom 7
Italy 19
Switzerland 19
Belgium 20
Netherlands 35
New Zealand 36
Australia 43

References

  1. Archive Chart at Billboard.com for the 26th of December 1987.