The Legendary Shack Shakers – "Shake Your Hips" (2003)

Don’t move yo’ head

Don’t move yo’ hands

Don’t move yo’ lips

Just shake yo’ hips

My younger son and youngest child turned 28 yesterday.

(Here’s a little test to see whether you were paying attention when your English teacher explained the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives.  Read the above sentence and tell me what is the minimum number of children that I have?  How many of them are boys?)

Pete, who covers the Washington Commanders for the NBC Sports Washington cable TV channel, is a y-u-g-e celebrity here in the DMV (i.e., the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia).  

He not only appears frequently on TV, but also is a regular guest on more than one local sports talk radio show.  And he and two of his NBC colleagues do a Commanders podcast called “Washington Football Talk” – which I would say is blowing up but for the fact that it already blew up a long time ago.

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When you’re a celebrity like Pete is, you have to be prepared to deal with haters.

Here’s how one hater responded to a NBC Sports tweet wishing Pete a happy birthday:

Cringiest, most unknowledgeable reporter covering the team . . . but happy birthday!

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One of Pete’s older sisters used his birthday as an occasion to drag up some embarrassing stuff from the past – like this e-mail exchange:

Pete: What comes first, conditioner or shampoo?

Sister: Seriously?  Shampoo!

Pete:  Crap.  I’ve been doing that all wrong for at least two years. 

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Slim Harpo, the legendary Louisiana bluesman, wrote and recorded “Shake Your Hips” in 1966.

You may be familiar with the Rolling Stones’ cover of “Shake Your Hips,” which they released in 1972 on the Exile on Main St. album.

With all due respect to Mick and the boys, the Legendary Shack Shakers’ cover of “Shake Your Hips” – which I first heard a couple of weeks ago on Drew Carey’s show on the Sirius XM “Underground Garage” channel – blows away the Stones’ version.

You might think that the Legendary Shack Shakers’ name has something to do with the Shake Shack restaurant chain.  But the first Shake Shack opened several years after the Legendary Shack Shakers formed in Murray, Kentucky, in 1995.  So it seems to me that if anyone should be worried about a trademark infringement lawsuit, it’s the restaurant chain – not the band.

The Legendary Shack Shakers – who have been described as “a rockabilly version of the Sex Pistols” – released “Shake Your Hips” on their 2003 album, Cockadoodledon’t:

I don’t have a good explanation for why I chose it to feature it in a post about my son’s birthday.  It just seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

Click here to listen to “Shake Your Hips.”

Click on the link below to buy the song from Amazon: