Shake!
{{song|
|song name = Shake!
|album image = 
from the album Graffiti Bridge
|single image = 
single art for Shake!
|performer = The Time
|first released = 20 August 1990 - Graffiti Bridge album
|album(s) = Graffiti Bridge
|writer(s) = Prince and Morris Day
|producer(s) = Prince
|previous song = Shade Of Umber
|next song = Shall We Dance
|introduction = Shake! is the eleventh track on Prince’s twelfth album Graffiti Bridge (the third track on the album to be credited to The Time), and, four and a half months after the album’s release, Shake! was released as as the album’s fifth and final single (the only single from the album credited to The Time). The track is also featured in the movie Graffiti Bridge.
While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place between June and early September 1989 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota for The Time’s Corporate World album (during the same sessions that produced Murph Drag, Nine Lives, Donald Trump (Black Version), Love Machine, Corporate World, The Latest Fashion and Release It).
The song was included as the sixth track on the album in early September 1989, as planned for release in November 1989. The album was abandoned when Warner Bros. wanted to involve the other original members of The Time, but many of the tracks were saved for Pandemonium and Graffiti Bridge.
Interestingly, the Boom Mix version of Shake! included on the [[Single: Shake!|maxi-single] contains vocals by Levi Seacer, Jr. and samples from songs of the Graffiti Bridge album (Release It, Graffiti Bridge, The Latest Fashion, Shake! and We Can Funk) over a sample of Average White Band and Ben E. King’s 1977 song A Star In The Ghetto. This technique of introducing the album on a track was later re-used for 2 Whom It May Concern in 1992 (and to some degree on the Dance Remix of Let’s Work in 1982). Both tracks (and 7) use samples of a man laughing which may come from a sound-effect library as it was also used by other unreleated acts. This laugh sample on 2 Whom It May Concern and 7 is therefore not considered as a sample of the Boom Mix of Shake!.
|recording info =
|- align="left"
|style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|June - early September 1989
|style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
|style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Tracking
|- align="left"
|style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|1990
|style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Studio names needed
|style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"|Remixes by Levi Seacer, Jr. and Junior Vasquez
|recording personnel =
- Morris Day - vocals
- Prince - all other vocals and instruments, except where noted
- Jana Anderson - background vocals
|released versions =
| Title | Length | Released | Version | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shake! | 4:01 | Graffiti Bridge Shake! single |
Studio | |
| Shake! (Extended Mix) | 4:57 | Shake! single | Remix | Remix by Levi Seacer, Jr.; rap by Demetrius Ross |
| Shake! (Battle Mix) | 4:01 | Shake! single | Remix | Remix by Levi Seacer, Jr. |
| Shake! (Boom Mix) | 5:05 | Shake! single | Remix | Remix and vocals by Levi Seacer, Jr.; strings by Clare Fischer (sampled from Graffiti Bridge) |
| Shake! (Funky House Mix) | 8:03 | Shake! single | Remix | Remix by Junior Vasquez |
|unreleased versions = |- |style="color:#AB3E00" |Unreleased Versions
|- | valign="top"|
| Title | Version | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|
| Shake! | Studio | Original Corporate World version; edited slightly for release |
|sampled in = |- |style="color:#AB3E00" |Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in...
|- | valign="top"|
| Title | Length | Released | Version | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Power Generation (Pt. II) | 2:57 | Graffiti Bridge New Power Generation single |
Studio | See New Power Generation (Pt. II) for more details |
|video versions = |- |style="color:#AB3E00" |Video Versions
|- | valign="top"|
| Title | Length | Released | Version | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shake! | 3:29 | Graffiti Bridge DVD | Studio | Different edit from the album version |
|broadcasts, streaming = |- |style="color:#AB3E00" |Broadcasts/streaming (only)
|- | valign="top"|
| Title | Length | Released | Version | Additional info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shake! | T.B.C. | Delayed concert TV broadcast | Live | 19 January 1991 (a.m.), Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
|first live appearance = 6 January 1991: Glam Slam, Minneapolis, Minnesota
|performed regularly on = none |performed occasionally in = 1991, 2002 |trivia = Other than the similarity in lyrics, this track is unrelated to U Gotta Shake Something. |see also = Graffiti Bridge album
- Shake! single
- Graffiti Bridge movie
- Corporate World unreleased album
- The Time
|references = The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) |categories = }}
