Shake Your Pants

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"Shake Your Pants"
Single by Cameo
from the album Cameosis
ReleasedAugust 1980 (1980-08)
Genre Funk
Length6:21
Songwriter(s) Larry Blackmon
Producer(s) Larry Blackmon
Cameo singles chronology
"We're Goin' Out Tonight"
(1980)
"Shake Your Pants"
(1980)
"Keep It Hot"
(1980)

"Shake Your Pants" is a song by American funk band Cameo, released in August 1980 as a single from their fifth studio album, Cameosis . [1] It peaked at number 8 on the Hot Soul Singles chart. [2]

Charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 57
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard )8

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References

  1. Lytle, Craig. "Cameosis – Cameo". AllMusic . Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 98.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 48.