Shake Your Hips

Composer: James Moore      Original performer: Slim Harpo (1966)
Recording date: July 1970, October 1970 & December 1971-March 1972
Recording locations: Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Mick Jagger's home, Newbury, England; Olympic Sound Studios, London, England

& Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, USA

Producer: Jimmy Miller      Chief engineers: Glyn Johns, Andy Johns & Joe Zagarino
Never performed onstage

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitars: Mick Taylor & Keith Richards (incl. solo)
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ian Stewart
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
 

Let me tell you about a dance
That's going around

Everybody do it
From the grownups down


Don't move your head
Don't move your hands

Don't move your lips
Just shake your hip


Do the hip shake, baby
Do the hip shake, baby
Shake your hip, baby
Shake your hip, baby

Well if you don't know
Don't be no 'fraid

Just listen to me
Dig what I sing


Don't move your head
Don't move your hands

Don't move your lips
Just shake your hip


Do the hip shake, baby
Do the hip shake, baby
Shake your hip, baby
Shake your hip, baby

Well ain't that easy

Well I met a little girl
In a country town

She said What do you know
There's Slim Harpo


Didn't move her head
Didn't move her hands

Didn't move her lips
She shook her hip


Did the hip shake, baby
Did the hip shake, baby
Shake your hip, baby
Shake your hip, baby

Well ain't that easy
 
 

TrackTalk

(I)t was Mick's idea to cover Slim Harpo's Shake Your Hips and Robert Johnson's Stop Breaking Down.

- Mick Taylor, 2002


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