Keep Your Body Working

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"Keep Your Body Working"
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Single by Tony Moran featuring Martha Wash
from the album The Event
Released2007
Recorded2007
Genre Dance/House
Length4:14
Label Moran Music
Songwriter(s) Norman Durham
Martha Wash
Producer(s) Gary Salzman
Joe Koppie
Tony Moran
Tony Moran singles chronology
"Walk Away"
(2007)
"Keep Your Body Working"
(2007)
"Surrender Me"
(2008)

"Keep Your Body Working" is a single released in 2008 recorded by Tony Moran featuring Martha Wash. It is the second number one single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart from Moran's 2-disc CD collection The Event, [1] following "Walk Away." The CD promo-only single reached the top spot on December 22, 2007, and stayed there for two weeks. [2]

Contents

The track itself is actually a "reworking" of a Disco classic by the group Kleeer, except it was originally titled "Keeep Your Body Workin', [3] " which was written by Kleeer group member Norman Durham. The original peaked at number 54 on the Club Play chart in 1979. Although both versions featured the same chorus and elements, the Moran/Wash version had lyrics that were different from the original version.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2007–08)Peak
position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)Position
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard) [5] 22

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References

  1. From e.discogs
  2. "Hot Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 22, 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  3. from e.discogs
  4. "Tony Moran Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  5. "Dance Club Songs – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved May 6, 2020.