Disco Lady
by Johnnie Taylor

Album: Eargasm (1976)
Charted: 25 1
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  • Shake it up, Shake it down;
    Move it in move it round, disco lady
    Move it in move it out
    Move in it and about, disco lady

    Shake it up, shake it down
    Move it in, move it around, disco lady

    Hey sexy lady,
    Said I like the way you move your thang,
    Lord have mercy girl,
    You dance so fine, and you're right on time
    Girl you ought to be on T.V. On soul train
    When you get the groove,
    There ain't no stoppin',
    Just can't help it, but I'm finger poppin'

    Shake it up, shake it down;
    Move it in, move it round, disco lady
    Move it in, move it out;
    Move it in, round about, disco lady

    Shake it baby, shake it,
    Baby shake your thang; (One time)
    Shake it baby, shake it,
    Baby shake your thang,

    You got me groovin, (Wanna hustle baby)
    I feel like movin, (Wanna hustle baby)
    You got me movin, (Wanna hustle baby)
    Can't sit still I'm groovin (Wanna hustle baby)
    (I like that funky stuff)

    Shake it up, shake it down,
    Move it in, move it round, disco lady
    Move it in, move it out,
    Shove it in round about, disco lady

    Hey sexy lady, (Shake it up, shake it)
    Girl, you drive me crazy, (Shake it up, shake)
    You dance so fine and your right on time (Shake it up, shake)
    Girl you drive me right out of my mind (Shake it up, shake)
    If it wasn't for the girl sittin' next to me, (Shake it up, shake)
    I'd jump right up and outta my safety seat (Shake it up, shake)
    You got me hypnotized, soul mesmorized (Shake it up, shake)
    Girl, your movin' me girl your groovin' me (Shake it up, shake)

    (Shake it up, shake)
    (Shake it up, shake it down)

    Shake it on down,
    Move it up, move it down to the ground

    (Shake it up, shake)
    (Shake it up, shake)
    (Shake it up, shake)
    (Shake it up, shake)
    (Shake it up, shake)

    Shake it up, shake it down;
    Move it in, move it round, disco lady
    Move it in, move it out;
    Shove it in, shove it out; disco lady

    Hey, you've got me soulset in this discothek
    Girl, your movin' me girl your groovin' me

    Move it in, move it out;
    Shove it in round about, disco lady

    Shake it baby Writer/s: AL VANCE, DON DAVIS, HARVEY SCALES
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Shag from Los AngelesI just listened to a 2 hour interview with the late Bernie Worrell, of Pfunk fame. He said that he wrote this song, but received $500 and no credits. I don't if it's true, but having had a dad and others in that business, I know that type stuff happened alot.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 3rd 1976, Johnnie Taylor performed "Disco Lady" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was in its first of four weeks at #1 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and it spent 19 weeks on the chart, with eight of those weeks on the Top 10...
    One month earlier on March 7th, 1976 it reached #1 {for 6 weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1966 and 1990 he had thirty-nine hits on the R&B Singles chart; fourteen made the Top 10 with four reaching #1, his three other #1 records were "Who's Making Love" {1968}, "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone" {1971}, and "I Believe in you" {1973}...
    Johnnie Harrison Taylor passed away on May 31st, 2000 at the age of 66.
  • Tc from Chicago, IlPlatinum record sales were for the sale of 2,000,000 or more units originally. Later the standard was lowered to Gold record status of sales of 1,000,000 to under 2,000,000 units.
  • Musicmama from New York, NyWhen this song came out, a five-year-old girl whom I used to baby-sit heard it as "Crisco Lady." I'm surprised Weird Al or someone like that hasn't done a parody with that title. Another time, my mother and I were at a neighbor's house. This song played on the radio. The neighbor, my mother and I all laughed. Our neighbor's young daughter wondered what was so funny. "Listen to the words," I instructed her. After hearing us laugh at "move it around" or one of those lyrics, the daughter exclaimed, "You have dirty minds!"
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