The Bertha Butt Boogie

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"The Bertha Butt Boogie"
Single by Jimmy Castor Bunch
Released 1975
Format 7" single
Genre Funk
Writer(s) Jimmy Castor, Johnny L Pruitt

The Bertha Butt Boogie was a song released in 1975 by The Jimmy Castor Bunch. It achieved number 16 on the US pop charts[1] and number 22 on the US R&B charts.[2]

The record was a follow-up record to the band's 1972 top 10 hit "Troglodyte (Cave Man)", which also featured the "Bertha Butt" character, who showed up on several more Jimmy Castor Bunch tracks in following years.[3] It has been described by one critic as "another self-defining hit" for the band,[3] and by another as the "seminal narrative" of "celebratory butt songs" in the same vein as similarly themed records such as "Rump Shaker" and "Baby Got Back".[4]

The song is considered an icon of black music, bringing humor into the larger narrative that emerged in the mid-seventies.[5]

References

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  3. 3.0 3.1 Dave Thompson, Funk (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2001), ISBN 978-0879306298, p. 83. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  4. Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista (University Press of New England, 2011), ISBN 978-1555537661, p. 11. Excerpts available at Google Books.
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