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Shake Your Pants

1980 song performed by Cameo

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7462651 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Shake Your Pants" is a song by American funk band Cameo, released in August 1980 as a single from their fifth studio album, Cameosis. It peaked at number 8 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Editorial summary

“Shake Your Pants” enters the record as 1980 song performed by Cameo. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shake, Your and Pants can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shake, Your and Pants.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Shake Your Pants” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shake, Your and Pants provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7462651. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shake Your Pants”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shake Your Pants primary sources, Shake Your Pants archive and Shake research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shake Your Pants”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shake Your Pants” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.