“Shakin'” by Eddie Money

"Shakin'" rolled off Eddie Money's 1982 album No Control, a platinum record with Tom Dowd producing and Andy Johns engineering and mixing, and it's pure Friday-night strut. Money wrote it with Elizabeth Myers and Ralph Carter, and it climbed to 9 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart while stalling at 63 on the Hot 100. The video starred Patricia Kotero, the actress and model better known as Apollonia, before she went on to co-star in Purple Rain.

By Money's own account, there was a reason it stalled. In 2018 he confirmed to Rolling Stone what fans had long suspected: a crude word for part of a woman's body made it onto the record, radio version included. He'd told Opie and Anthony in 2009 that the fuss kept many AM stations away and cost him close to $500,000, and that it would otherwise have been a top-10 single. It remains a fan favorite all the same.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.