Shake Your Pants
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- for the compilation album, see Shake Your Pants (album)Shake Your Pants (album)Shake Your Pants is the first compilation album album by funk/R&B group Cameo. Released in 1992, this out-of-print collection focuses on the band's earlier hits but passes over their recent blockbusters. Also, some of the tracks were not released as singles, making this collection unattractive to...
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"Shake Your Pants" is a funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
song by the band Cameo
Cameo (band)
Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...
from the 1980 album, Cameosis
Cameosis
Cameosis is the fifth album by the Funk/Soul band Cameo, released on April 24, 1980.-Reception:Charted number one on the R&B album charts and number twenty five on the Billboard 200 album charts...
. It was also released as a single and has since been re-released on many of the band's greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
albums, including one named after the song
Shake Your Pants (album)
Shake Your Pants is the first compilation album album by funk/R&B group Cameo. Released in 1992, this out-of-print collection focuses on the band's earlier hits but passes over their recent blockbusters. Also, some of the tracks were not released as singles, making this collection unattractive to...
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