while the lead us single off "stealin' home": "shake it", was in the top 40, matthews would tell "rolling stone": "i don’t think i did anything different [to record a hit single]. i guess it's my reward. after all, i've been doing exactly what i want for 14 or 15 years." however matthews would later acknowledge that on "stealin' home", "i tried to add just a couple of songs that had top 40 potential, without compromising the rest of the material [and the album] did precisely what it was supposed to do: it raised my profile, without lowering my credibility." matthews had heard the original version of "shake it" from its composer terence boylan's self-titled album played on a seattle fm radio station: after matthews phoned the radio station for info on the track the disc jockey sent him a copy of the 1977 "terence boylan" album from which matthews would select two songs: "shake it" and "don't hang up your dancing shoes", to record for "stealin' home". "don't hang up your dancing shoes" would be the third single from the us release of "stealin' home", the immediate followup to "shake it" being the robert palmer composition "give me an inch": having heard the original version of "give me an inch" - introduced on the 1975 robert palmer album "pressure drop" - matthews had wanted to put his own spin on the song.