"On The Shelf" is a disco dance song from in the 1978 motion picture soundtrack of Goin' Coconuts, featuring Donny and Marie Osmond. The duet received slight radio airplay in the Provo, Utah area when the film was released.
Songwriters are Steve Voice and Peter Yellowstone.
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off-the-shelf — ˌoff the ˈshelf adjective COMMERCE an off the shelf product is made to a standard design and can be bought in the shops: • off the shelf database software • Standard off the shelf systems are displacing the custom products that were the company s … Financial and business terms
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