Shake a Tail Feather - Wikipedia Shake a Tail Feather Not to be confused with Shake Ya Tailfeather. `` Shake a Tail Feather '' Single by The Five Du - Tones Released 1963 Format Single Recorded 1963 Genre Soul Length 2 : 24 Label One - DERFUL ! Songwriter ( s ) Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice, Andre Williams `` Shake a Tail Feather '' ( Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice, and Andre Williams ) is a song originally recorded in 1963 by the Chicago - based group The Five Du - Tones. ( This version was featured on the soundtrack of the 1988 film Hairspray ). A 1967 version by James & Bobby Purify reached # 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Cover versions `` Shake a Tail Feather '' has been covered by many other artists over the years. Ray Charles covered and performed the song during his scenes in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers in a version that included calls for various 1960s dances, such as the Twist, the Monkey, The Fly, The Swim, The Frug and the Mashed Potato, The Boogaloo to be performed by a crowd gathered outside Ray 's Music Exchange. The song was covered by The Cheetah Girls for the 2005 Walt Disney Pictures film, Chicken Little. The Kingsmen included the song on their 1966 The Kingsmen Up And Away album. The Monkees performed the song in 1968 on the band 's television special, 33 ⁄ Revolutions Per Monkee. Hanson included the song in a medley with `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' on their 1998 release, Live from Albertane. Japanese garage punk band Teengenerate recorded the song for their 1994 10 '' vinyl release `` Audio Recording ''. In 2012, one of the songwriters, Andre Williams included the song on his 2012 Alive album, Life. In November 2013 The Overtones recorded the song for their album Saturday Night at the Movies. Other artists who have recorded the song include Ike & Tina Turner ( as re-created in the film What 's Love Got to Do with It ), Mitch Ryder, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Tommy James and the Shondells, and The Romantics. References Jump up ^ allmusic ( ( ( The Five Du - Tones > Overview ) ) ) Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1992 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 5th Edition. Billboard Books. p. 373. Jump up ^ `` Ike and Tina Turner shake your tail feather ''. YouTube. 2008 - 01 - 06. Retrieved 2014 - 06 - 05. Jump up ^ Mike Hale ( 2011 - 09 - 18 ). `` Cigars ? Cigarettes ? Catty Rivalries ? ''. New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015 - 02 - 13. Retrieved 2015 - 02 - 12. Later the actress Karen LeBlanc does a pretty fair Tina Turner imitation on `` Shake a Tail Feather '' and `` I Want to Be Made Over. '' Tommy James and the Shondells Tommy James John Golden Bobby Guy Glenn Wyka Studio albums Hanky Panky It 's Only Love I Think We 're Alone Now Gettin ' Together Mony Mony Crimson & Clover Cellophane Symphony The Best of Tommy James and The Shondells Travelin ' Singles `` Hanky Panky '' `` Say I Am ( What I Am ) '' `` It 's Only Love '' `` Ya ! Ya ! '' `` I Think We 're Alone Now '' `` Mirage '' `` Gettin ' Together '' `` Mony Mony '' `` Do Something to Me '' `` Crimson and Clover '' `` Sweet Cherry Wine '' `` Crystal Blue Persuasion '' `` Ball of Fire '' `` She '' `` Gotta Get Back to You '' Cover Songs `` California Sun '' `` Good Lovin ' '' `` I 'll Go Crazy '' `` I 'm So Lonesome I Could Cry '' `` Shake a Tail Feather '' `` Shout '' Book This pop song -- related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This 1960s pop song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shake_a_Tail_Feather&oldid=793955757 '' Categories : Songs written by Andre Williams 1963 songs 1963 singles 1967 singles The Five Du - Tones songs James & Bobby Purify songs Ray Charles songs The Blues Brothers songs Tina Turner songs Ike & Tina Turner songs Tommy James and the Shondells songs The Cheetah Girls songs Bell Records singles Pop song stubs 1960s pop song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Español Italiano Bahasa Melayu 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Português Edit links This page was last edited on 4 August 2017, at 23 : 08. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang the original shake your tail feather
Answer: The Five Du-Tones