Shake Your Hips

About Shake Your Hips

"Shake Your Hips" (sometimes known as "Hip Shake") is a song written by Louisiana bluesman Slim Harpo. He recorded it in February 1966 for producer J. D. Miller for a follow-up single to his hugely successful "Baby Scratch My Back". Miller's Excello Records released it as a single in June 1966 and in October, the song became the lead track for Slim Harpo's 1966 album Baby Scratch My Back, which was a long-term release in Excello's catalogue. Slim Harpo biographer Martin Hawkins describes it as a "dance-instruction song [with a] fast-paced, hypnotic shoeshine beat". He notes contributions by Lazy Lester on percussion and Katie Webster on organ. more »

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1994

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I wanna tell you 'bout a dance
That's goin' around
Ev'rybody doin' it
From the grownups, down

Don't have to move yo' head
Don't have to move yo' hands
Don't have to move yo' lips
Just shake yo' hips

And do the hip-shake, baby
And do the hip-shake, baby
Do the hip-shake, baby
Shake yo' hips, baby

Now, if you don't know
Don't be afraid
Just listen to me
And do what I said

Don't move yo' head
Don't move yo' hands
Don't move yo' lips
Just shake yo' hips

Do the hip-shake, baby
Do the hip-shake, baby
Do the hip-shake, baby
Shake yo' hips, baby

Now, ain't this easy?

Well, I met a little girl
In a country town
She says, 'what'd you know? '
'There's Slim Harpo!'

I didn't move my head
I didn't move my hands
I didn't move my lips
She shook her hips

She did a hip shake, baby
Did her hip shake, baby
Did her hip shake, baby
Shake yo' hips, baby

Now, ain't this easy?

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Slim Harpo

Slim Harpo (February 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970) was an American blues musician. He was known as a master of the blues harmonica; the name "Slim Harpo" was derived from "harp," the popular nickname for the harmonica in blues circles. more »

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