IAN MATTHEWS - SHAKE lT(classic)

[tc1261]

I also remember this song from the movie "Little Darlings". I can still picture Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal...

[loopsouth]

@tc1261 I had a professor in college who's wife played the camp director who got the pie thrown in her face during the food fight. He said her part was pretty much edited out of the movie except for this scene.

[Hitchhikeroftheyear]

I an Matthews one of my favorite country musicians i used to listen to him always back in the 70's.It sucks they don't make music like this nowdays.

[dkl38]

Wow, this takes me back to spring 1980, my junior year in high school, and that hot little brunette cheerleader who broke my heart....believe it or not, it still hurts sometimes. Especially when I hear songs like this.....lol, oh well, that's life!

[MrReindeer69]

Great song then, great song now.

[Flshi]

This song drives me to 1980, Great Year!

[MrRonnieG]

@imbluz ~ And here's to you & your memories.

[kkthekitty]

Little Darlings soundtrack!!!

[burpo]

Sounds a lot like Stephen Bishop. ("Save it for a Rainy Day")

[blueyes816]

Very underrated song....still have the "45" single...man, did I listen a lot to that record in '79 and thereafter...glad it is on Youtube!!...thanks for posting it...

[lordraider74]

@blueyes816 good thing u still have it, lol. I remember having the 45 to this and I would play the hell out of it when I was like 6 yrs old.

[luisfran04]

estuve buscando este tema desde hace muchos años, desde los tiempos de stereo 100 en lima, gracias por subirla , gracias , gracias, el tema es realmente hermoso.

[imbluz]

I remember this song back in 1978. I spent the summer in a cool beach house. Memories!

[Aquaria]

Classic pop, nice hooks, sexy touches with the sax, talented studio musicians and restrained backups, good use of multi-tracking and no distortion--it all adds up to that super-polished 70s sound.

A joy to the ears that we don't get enough of anymore.

[shortys39]

FUCKING YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

[MrRonnieG]

I was living in Morro Bay, California in the summer of 1979 and remember this song so well. I was madly in love with Sue Bowman (we worked together for Swift Aire Lines in San Luis Obispo) ~ geez, hearing this song takes my memory, and my heart, racing back to that time in my life.

[imbluz]

@MrRonnieG

I remember it airing in the summer of 78. Great memories from that summer. Here's to ya.

[trcsonic]

Best song in THE WARRIORS!

[wheatfields1970]

I was going through finding ideas for a 70s homemade compilation to put on CD and play in my car. I found some great tracks then I stumbled on this one.  I hadn't heard this before but this song was so familiar. Full of melody and great lyrics.

[TheFulminate]

oh! classic!!! :)

[castertunes1967]

Love this track....picture in her wallet autographed basketball etched in memory now for over thirty years

[nealadams70]

Oh she could shake it in 1979..too bad what she was shaking was a fat stomach...

[elmagio23]

@nealadams70 

[heckdave2]

Major Flashback!

[blackandtanful]

懐かしや､この優しく清らかなの歌声､ｲﾔﾝ･ﾏｼｭｰｽﾞの"­SHAKE IT!"～AOR全盛期の極め付き曲のひとつだナ!

[rin3guy]

This awesome, cool song reached #13 in early 1979. (U.S., Billboard) -- Definitely one of the best songs of that entire year!

[MarineSpartan1]

This was one of those songs that just stick in your head. Even after all those years. Ever notice how the current music out there is not really sticking in your head? Beiber, Gaga, Britney and much of this other stuff sounds good, has good bass and you can dance to some of it, but I do not go about my days singing any of it.....The good music is gone now.......

[ncook26]

Yes! I remember that song from the opening scene to Little Darlings when Kristy McNichol kicks a guy extremely hard in the nuts. Great Movie.

"Be nice to me....slide me something nice!" haha Love It - LOLs.

[frances1198]

wish i was in 79 free and without sorrows !

[yotke555]

great song.

and the warriors game has this song :)

[FUZE718]

@yotke555 lol!!! yeah

[talau85]

I remember this song in 6th grade...in the winter of 1978-1979. CKLW out of Windsor Canada played this a lot.

[sunz600]

Thanks Rockstar for introducing me to this! So beauituful. CAN YOU DIG IT?

[MLGxSLasH]

this song is what i'm looking from a while!

[chrisdimson]

this song reminds me of Dianne+Donna,the twins,shaking their cute bottoms down the hall in highschool when this song was a hit on the charts!!they were both gorgeous!!1977-78

[PoconoSteve59]

What a perky song - a song you haven't heard in a long time but still love it !!!

[DaveWollenberg]

Ian hit #13 in Billboard, 2-17-79. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[johnnyray1717]

Wow! A flood of memories are flashing back! I love that move "Little Darlings". Good for the times, but try and make a movie like that today and your going to get into trouble. Oh the innocence of youth. It sucks we can't go back our childhood again.

[ElMarkyMix]

Makes me wanna play "The Warriors" xD

[no5W155]

@ElMarkyMix SAME!



[no5W155]

this is so fucking funky im shaving to this song lol

[love1750]

Ah, this reminds me jumping through a window and getting the drop on the Jones Street Boys......or was that a video game I forget.

[TheKer56]

Ah, this takes me back to my childhood love: kristy mcnichol

Love ya wherever you are

[TheWarrswan]

The Warriors!!! yea i love that game.. 

[squall600]

thumbs up if "the warriors" game brought you here :)

[shmuli9]

This was a total 'summer song'... :-)

[parkercadie1]

"Little Darlings" really talks about those growing pains and the crap that girls, and kids period, have to take on a daily basis.

[tshooto]

This sounds just like a song that I sent to Mushroom Records in 1978.

They wanted to sign me but I was already signed to Epic. So they got someone to copy my hook. Wow, should've at LEAST been co-writer on this on Ian!

[ybz2207]

I love this song. So mellow.

[deeway1963]

@beepollen1 Haven't heard this song in years. Thanks for sharing Bee. Peace.

[aylaandshelby]

first time i heard this was in little darlings! my favorite movie

[bigdaddyjte]

The Warriors video game. THIS SONG RULES!

[elantichivas1]

they dnt last forever cuz they die of aids(:

[Zrinschchuck]

this song reminds of playing my favorite game, The Warriors

wish Rockstar would make a sequel

[elmagio23]

this song i know for the warriors the game i love it..

[wachatalknboutwillis]

Oh man! I remember this song. It was used in the intro to the movie Little Darlings. I had to sneak in to see this one because it was rated R, and I was all but 11 or 12. This song takes me way back.

[msparkermarryme]

"be nice to me...slide me something nice"

i love that part :)

[dedelite9]

huh! to be young again!!

[babyhugsbear08]

oops I left out the g in darlings sorry!!!!!

[babyhugsbear08]

It was in the movie Little Darlin's first . Great song love it!!!!! Movie was great too!!!!!!But that was a very long time ago!!!!

[DaveWollenberg]

Billboard's #73 song of '79. Ian hit #13 pop, #21 AC in the US. How'd he do in the UK? God bless!

[OffTheCharts365]

Thanks for posting this song! Find this song and more "lost hits" and "chart wonders" from the 70's (and some 80's), on a new internet radio station, "OffTheCharts!"

Go to Live365.com and type "OffTheCharts" in the search box. Or, go to our page for the link.

This song is being featured this week (November 29).

[Zoppf]

I love knockin' out the JSBs as Cowboy in the game Warriors with this playing in the background. Fitting too, as the Warriors takes place in 1979 as well.

[goldsmice]

Thumbs up if you thought this song was by Stephen Bishop when you first heard it. I sure as hell did.

[RedDimondCross]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!! the funny thing about it though i heard of it because of the Warriors video game....WARRIORS...Come out to play! hahahaLOL!

[alafoster1]

Diggin' it on a Sunday morning - I remember Little Darlings at the drive-in, my friends and I thought we were so cool, sneaking out for a cigarette. West End Girls, LOL. :)

[scot60]

Nice memories, great song.

[stephanLille]

Wov, it brings me such marvelous memories, thank you so much Ian

[60Waterfall]

Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you! Bless my soul I found the bear who wrote and promoted little girls like me! Wahoo!!

[HEMISUPERBEE426]

I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO ALL THE GIRLS IN MY PAST WHO DID TO ME WHAT THIS SONG IS ABOUT, BUT REMEMBER GIRLS, LIKE THE SONG SAYS, "IT WON'T LAST FOREVER".

[elantichivas1]

(: woooooo 

[DA90027]

Love this song but it always souonded like Rita Coolidge.

[kathleenroot66]

This is theme song from movie Little Darlings w/ Kristy McNichol Matt Dillon and Tatum o'neil

[Mainrollman]

@kathleenroot66 Yes it is!!!

[xxedwiin13xx]

fiinaly ii found the song yes :D

[liquidgee13]

This song was not in the film "The Warriors"

[Gummerman]

@liquidgee13 It was in the game.

[crazyPAgirl]

@Gummerman

And Little Darlings.

[ledzep76]

@crazyPAgirl Kick him in the nutssss!

[MrMusicman488]

I think it would be cool to remake the movie "The Warriors"

[joedivision1992]

@MrMusicman488 they are but its gonna be based in LA with modern day gangs.......... so its gonna be shit

[FrancieliMartins]

The best song in The Warriors game.

[nuwavething]

everytime i hear this song i always think of the movie little darlings.this song played during the first of the movie.

[pondmaker]

Junior High Memories...

[ldaleanthony]

What is the warriors?

[71Nova350]

@ldaleanthony The warriors is a movie about gangs in New York city. I believe it takes place in the early 1980's? Watch it some time you might like it, I know I did!!

[krilc]

Another warriors fan here

This song went really well with that one section in the JSB mission

[MsGerry57]

Shake it Baby Shake....................

[Danwoods19]

heard this song first on the warriors like a few years ago :P

[bobbya16]

@Danwoods19 ....I dont know what you were watching, but it was not the warriors ....this song was not in that movie....

[Rollngstonesman1]

@bobbya16 it was in the game

[Danwoods19]

@bobbya16 yeah was in the game mate good1

[76memories]

I was barely out of my teens when this came out. Here I am now in my 50s. Wow. Every single time I hear this (which I try to do regularly) it puts a bounce in my attitude and a smile in my heart. 

[TMoNeY187x]

i found this song out from the warriors :)

[eussuf]

Little Darlings

[Rollngstonesman1]

@dimpledick3inch Ok, no one cares what you think because everyone else likes it, and why do you have comment if you can't say something nice, then do't comment and your username is dimpledick3inch, here is something for you, you can't suck your dick because it's only three inches just like the name you gave yourself:)

[Rollngstonesman1]

@dimpledick3inch you have no tast in music

[NashJille]

Great song bringing back great memories. Always makes me think of "Little Darlings" with Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol. Good times...

[grassyknollblues]

@NashJille Always about the poor kid that Kristy kicks...LOL

[gootenslog]

Such a good pop song.....good music like this will never be popular again...and that is a true shame.

[RATM4LYFE]

What a wonderful voice.

[johneangel1965]

What a GREAT and FUN song! What memories this one brings back! Thanks!

[GKRENKEL]

This was a hit song !! Loved this one !!!

[shannonhardy20]

i love this song so much!

[proboi]

Good Times....... GREAT TUNE ......Thanx 4 Posting

[blueoystercub]

ahhh the memories....man i loved this song and the movie it was in....

[WolfBoy723]

I just gotta say it. It was "the fuckin WARRIORS!"

[MrMusicman488]

Always thought Stephen Bishop sang this song. Great tune!!!

[rin3guy]

@MrMusicman488 -- Now that you mention it, he really DOES sound like Stephen Bishop! Wow...

[The23RHINO]

LOL i just raided the Jones Street Boys hangout and bopped my way through moving to this smooth beat!! lol

[xxxramsxxx]

jones street boys hangout lol

[ssterk63]

was there every a music video for this song? ie ian matthews singing/playing guitar, etc.?

[fairycrazylady]

love this song good days good times

[ddawne]

little darlings! Tatum O'neil, Christy McNichols great movie better song!

[5158307]

One cool song!

[glen31]

yeah THE JONES STREET BOYS HANG OUT ^_^ GREAT MUSIC ^_^

[VikingSkills7]

@glen31 "I wanna Ride the Pony!"

[IK0Nx]

You hear this song when you're woopin LC's ass haha

WARRIORS BABY

[Aar0nPunx]

i would play over and over the mission "set up" just to listen to this song.. and it was awesome cuse yo uget to use cowboy for at least a while!! sick song

thanks!

[DaveWollenberg]

Hit #13 pop, #21 AC in the US (Billboard). How'd it do in the UK? God bless!

[beeb1421]

i always thought it was stephen bishop

[HaNRaYo]

CAN YOU DIG IT !!

[squall600]

whenever i hear this song i just think of the warriors cause it was just awesome listening to it in the game, still have the game.

[goldsmice]

This song sounds like a rip off of "Save It For A Rainy Day" by Steven Bishop

[sebyoifys]

ich quiero this chanson( amazing)

[virginflight]

they used to play this song at the roller rink.skated to this many times.what a great time

[Victor1970s]

Is this the same Ian Matthews who fronted the group, Matthews Southern Comfort? If it is, how the hell did he go from singing Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" in 1971, to singing a disco song in 1979? Talk about desperate times calling for desperate measures!

[thewillismon]

@Victor1970s Yeah it's the same guy....Not really a disco song in my opinion, just a lightweight pop song typical of the era. He sold out on this one.

[hamsterondrugsno1]

the saxophone solo is orgasmic

[ovicello61]

Brings back memories of 1979, when I graduated high school. Other hits of that spring time 1979 was The Baby's "Every Time I Think Of You", Van Halen's "Dance The Night Away" and Orlean's "Love Takes Time".

[comentador33]

I listened to this music in the warriors too, nice !

[Crazy4Games3]

when i get an itouch, i am putting THIS SONG ON 1'ST!

[junkie4vids]

Other Ian Matthews song gems that are worthy of a listen (or a YouTube video):

* Rhythm of the West

* These Days

[jktropics43]

It was in the movie "Little Darlings" with Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol :-)

[Crazy4Games]

First heard this song in The Warriors. One of my favourites!

[BrooklynsFinest177]

@Crazy4Games aha same here :D

[juancapo999xd]

@Crazy4Games me 2!!!!!!!!

[juancapo999xd]

@Crazy4Games me 2!!!!!!!! **** the jones street boys

[ajax7407]

and game warriors too

[ajax7407]

great song!!

[ajax7407]

great song!!

[ajax7407]

great song!!

[junkie4vids]

Great song. Ian Matthews had an easy flowing voice. His best work was on the CD called "Valley Hi" where he collaborated with other well-known musicians like Michael Nesmith and O.J. "Red" Rhodes.

[nina42ful]

i now have this wonderful song on my zune player via rapshody. thank so much for giving me the name of the artist, if not for that i would be listrning to youtube everyday just to hear this song. THANKS!!!

[PhantomKing88]

the warriors sent me

[mjfan7771]

i p,layed the warriors and decided to add thisa on youtube i love them wooooooooooo! i love this song so much i listen to it on the warriors and i walk around talking to snow rembrandt, and cochise and we talk bout how it was when every crew tried to kil us!

[PhantomKing88]

yea yea. i listened to this song when i was trying to find the next checkpoint and this song would not stop playing. but i liked it. i listened to it non stop for like 4 hours I HATE THAT GPS! AND I HATE THOSE APARTMENTS!

[coryorton]

i've been looking for this forever ever since playing the warriors VG a few years back. thanks alot.

[StreetTalkerNY]

Love this song!!

[Celuloyd]

Yes, Terrence Boylan wrote this song. His version is much better.

[ycart22p]

I first heard this song on LITTLE DARLINGS !!! GREAT MEMORIES !!!!!!!

[nealadams70]

hey you and me brother , i ve looked for this tune for years

[valhalla55]

I think the song was written by Terence Boylan.

[nina42ful]

this is one of those youthful feel goods. luv it!

[gizzysgurl]

When I close my eyes...it is 1978 and I am a hot little # in my yellow cordouroy jeans, long dark brown hair flowing in the warm florida breeze, green eyes dancing, and strolling in the warm florida breeze. Shake it Baby!

[MrPuchikita]

''i dont wanna ride a ponny'', Warriors

[MrPuchikita]

jsb hideout song hahaha,,,,,

[mwduck]

He opened for David Gates and Bread, October 1978, Lloyd Noble Center, Norman Okla. Awesome then, awesome now.

[pstawicki]

@mwduck I didnt see my first show there till 1982 - 14 years old. I love that place. Great song!

[PunkLobo]

It's just like going back in time. Even if you wasn't there. People don't make songs like these today.

[bazzaxtreame]

haha reminds me of the warriors and raiding the jsb hang out

[xLilEazyE]

@bazzaxtreame I Know dude . lol

[SouzoSagara77]

@bazzaxtreame jaja, me too. Good song

[shannonhardy20]

@bazzaxtreame thats funny cause i always play that broad even tho i fliped the game!i loved this song.

[Rollngstonesman1]

@bazzaxtreame haha me to, best game ever

[gert35tr]

@bazzaxtreame me too. do you play on the ps2 or the xbox

[twospot7777777]

I remember this song from my youth. It is so funny that there were so many great songs out there and have no idea who sings them.

[DENIXE1996]

The Warriors game

[glen31]

THE WARRIORS

[squall600]

this song came out when i was playing the warriors game, still have the game to this day

[giaisbomb]

I had this song on Double LP--K-Tel, Gold Rush '79. Still have it. But I first heard this in movie Little Darlings. Or whichever came first! I see people are calling us old! HAHA! Was there actually a game for The Warriors Movie? Is that what you're talking about? Another great movie!

[Browneyegrl596]

heard this in little darlings...amazing movie. and i love the song

[goldenseal75]

Song was on same label as Heart, Mushroom Rercods. HMMMM

January 1979 peaked in the charts, #13

[mrtelevision]

Actually, it peaked in February

[mrtelevision]

The weeks of February 17 & 24 to be exact