Shake Your Pants (album)

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Shake Your Pants
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Compilation album by
ReleasedJanuary 15, 1992 (1992-01-15)
Genre R&B, funk
Label Polygram
Producer Larry Blackmon
Cameo chronology
Emotional Violence
(1991)
Shake Your Pants
(1992)
The Best of Cameo
(1993)
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Shake Your Pants is the first compilation album by the funk/R&B group Cameo. Released in 1992, this out-of-print collection focuses on the band's earlier hits but passes over their more recent blockbusters. Some of the tracks had not been released as singles, making this collection unattractive to fans looking for a true hits collection.[ citation needed ] It was followed by The Best of Cameo in 1993.

Track listing

  1. "I Just Want to Be" - Blackmon, Johnson
  2. "The Rock - Blackmon
  3. "Macho"
  4. "I'll Always Stay" - Blackmon, Lockett
  5. "Shake Your Pants" - Blackmon
  6. "I Care for You" - Blackmon, Lockett
  7. "Feel Me" - Blackmon, Lockett
  8. "Keep It Hot" - Blackmon, Lockett
  9. "Freaky Dancin'" - Blackmon, Jenkins
  10. "Flirt" - Blackmon, Jenkins
  11. "Just Be Yourself" - Blackmon, Jenkins, Singleton
  12. "I Like It" - Blackmon, Campbell, Lockett, Mills

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