Shakin’ is an unidentified rock song recorded from the radio sometime between 1985-1991. The OP has been actively searching for this song since 2005.

HISTORY

On 20 February 2005, user Obscure80s posted the song to the New Wave Outpost forums song identification board. They claimed that the song was recorded from a radio station in the Baltimore-DC area between 1985 and 1991, alongside another song. They only provided the lyrics.

On 11 June 2020, a 23 second snippet of the song the song was posted to SpiritOfRadio by user Jay Smelkinson. They added additional information. saying that it was recorded in the Baltimore-DC area from either WCVT or WHFS between 1985 and 1991. They were also unsure if it was a local band or not. This lead people to believe that Obscure80s and Jay Smelkinson were in fact the same person.

On 28 January 2021, Jay Smelkinson posted another snippet of the song to SpiritOfRadio. Here, they claimed that the song had been recorded from WCVT in Towson, and mentioned that they’d been searching for the song for multiple decades.

On 22 September 2021, Jay Smelkinson posted another snippet of the song to SpiritOfRadio and included a low-quality Vocaroo link to the full song in the replies.

On 29 March 2024, an anonymous user of the "WCTV" Facebook group asked user Skizz Cyzyk to post four videos of the Shakin’ and Take This Chance snippets with phone quality. This anonymous user is most likely the OP.

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