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|song name                 = Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
|single image              = [[File: Lotusflow3rcom screencap.jpg|100px|link=Lotusflow3r.com]]<br> <small> screencap from [[lotusflow3r.com]] (no official artwork) </small>
|performer                 = [[Prince]] feat. [[Elisa Dease]]
|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 17|17 October 2009]] - [[lotusflow3r.com]] mp3 download
|writer(s)                 = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson Michael Jackson] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Jackson_(The_Jacksons) Randy Jackson]
|producer(s)               = [[Prince]] (assumed, no official credits given)
|album(s)                  =  None
|previous song             = 
|next song                 = 
|introduction              = 
'''Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)''' is a 1978 song by American pop music group [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackson_5 The Jacksons], which first appeared on their 1978 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_(The_Jacksons_album) Destiny], and was released as a single shortly before the album’s release. It is written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson Michael Jackson] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Jackson_(The_Jacksons) Randy Jackson]. 

[[Prince]] has performed the song live (with [[Elisa Dease]] singing lead vocals) following [[Mountains]], beginning in late 2009. 

In October 2009, a live version of the two-song medley, recorded for a short radio gig in Paris, France, was released as an mp3 download on [[lotusflow3r.com]], known as [[Mountains]]-[[Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)|Shake Your Body]]. 

No studio version by [[Prince]] is believed to exist.

Notably, this is the first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson Michael Jackson] track to be released in any form by [[Prince]], and was released four months after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson Jackson]’s sudden death.

Other songs by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson Michael Jackson] and/or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackson_5 The Jacksons/The Jackson 5] that [[Prince]] has covered live include [[Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough]] and [[I Want You Back]].
|recording info            =
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[12_October 2009-m|12 October 2009 (mat.)]] 
|studio                    = RTL: Le Grand Studio (Rue Bayard), Paris, France
|additional info           = [[Elisa Dease]] on lead vocals for [[Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)|Shake Your Body]] section
}}
|recording personnel       = 
*[[Prince]] - vox, guitar
*[[Shelby J.]] - vox
*[[Liv Warfield]] - vox
*[[Elisa Dease]] - vox
*[[Frédéric Yonnet]] - harmonica 
|released versions         =
{{Songchart|
|line =
{{Songline|
|1= '''[[Mountains]]-[[Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)|Shake Your Body]] '''
|2= 4:17
|3= [[lotusflow3r.com]] mp3 download
|4= Live
|5= [[12_October 2009-m|12 October 2009 (mat.), RTL: Le Grand Studio (Rue Bayard), Paris, France]]; [[Elisa Dease]] on lead vocals for [[Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)|Shake Your Body]] section
}}
}}
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|first live appearance     = [[03 March 1986|3 March 1986: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA]] <small>(interpolation in [[America]])</small>;  [[19 November 2002|19 November 2002: Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan]] <small>(during an [[NPGMC]] member soundcheck)</small>; [[11_October 2009-1|11 October 2009 (show 1): Grand Palais, Paris, France]] <small>(in medley with [[Mountains]])</small><br> 
* [[07 February 2011|7 February 2011: Madison Square Garden, NY, USA]]  <small>(in medley with [[Mountains]])</small>
|performed regularly on    = none
|performed occasionally in = [[All_Concerts#1986|1986]] <small>(interpolation in [[America]])</small>, [[All_Concerts#2002|2002]], [[All_Concerts#2009|2009]] <small>(in medley with [[Mountains]])</small>, [[All_Concerts#2010|2010]] <small>(in medley with [[Mountains]])</small>, [[All_Concerts#2011|2011]] <small>(in medley with [[Mountains]])</small>
|trivia                    = 
|see also                  = [[lotusflow3r.com]]
|references                = 
|categories                = [[Category:2009]][[Category:Cover Songs]][[Category:Cover Songs (Live)]]
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