Whole lot of booty shakin' still goin' on
By Ken Barnes
USA Today
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| Ricky Martin turned his famous rumpshaking into a hit in 2000 with "Shake Your Bon Bon."."
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Far from shaking the musical foundations, these songs are part of a tradition older than rock 'n' roll itself.
From "Shake, Rattle and Roll" in the '50s to "Shake Your Bon Bon" at the turn of the millennium, artists have been fixated on what The Stooges called "shake appeal."
Sometimes the shake metaphors are sexual euphemisms, or they can describe sheer terror. Mostly they're dance instructions (which, of course, often double as sexual euphemisms).
We've charted some of the great shake hits. They're not Shakespeare, but across the decades they have given the pop scene a more-than-fair shake.
