[1] Slim Harpo biographer Martin Hawkins describes it as a "dance-instruction song [with a] fast-paced, hypnotic shoeshine beat".
[1] A June 18, 1966, "Spotlight Singles" review in Billboard magazine included "Harpo follows up his hit 'Baby Scratch My Back' with two blues-based sides.
Hawkins notes "It seems that 'Shake Your Hips' was a more influential disc than its chart position indicated, and it sold widely over a long period".
The Stones recorded this in London, but reworked it at Keith Richards' villa in the South of France, where the band was staying on their "exile."
[4] Other renditions include those by the Legendary Shack Shakers on Cockadoodledon't (2003)[5] and Joan Osborne on Bring It On Home (2012).