The record was a follow-up 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; it also calls back to two previous Castor recordings, "Hey Leroy Your Mama's Calling You" and "Luther the Anthropoid (Cave Man)", who appear with the troglodyte midway through the song to boogie with the Butt sisters.[4] It has been described by one critic as "another self-defining hit" for the band,[4] and by another as the "seminal narrative" of "celebratory butt songs" in the same vein as similarly themed records such as "Da Butt", "Rump Shaker", and "Baby Got Back".[5]
The song is considered an icon of black music, bringing humor into the larger narrative that emerged in the mid-seventies.[6]
bertha, butt, boogie, 1975, song, jimmy, castor, bunch, achieved, placing, chart, reached, chart, also, canada, single, cover, artworksingle, jimmy, castor, bunchfrom, album, butt, courseb, side, part, instrumental, track, part, releasedfebruary, 1975genrefunk. The Bertha Butt Boogie is a 1975 song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch It achieved a No 16 placing on the US pop chart 1 and reached No 22 on the US R amp B chart 2 It was also a top 40 hit in Canada 3 The Bertha Butt Boogie single cover artworkSingle by Jimmy Castor Bunchfrom the album Butt of CourseB side The Bertha Butt Boogie Part 2 instrumental track of Part 1 ReleasedFebruary 1975GenreFunkLength3 10LabelAtlanticSongwriter s Jimmy Castor Johnny L PruittJimmy Castor Bunch singles chronology Soul Serenade 1975 The Bertha Butt Boogie 1975 Potential 1975 Alternative coverThe record was a follow up 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 it also calls back to two previous Castor recordings Hey Leroy Your Mama s Calling You and Luther the Anthropoid Cave Man who appear with the troglodyte midway through the song to boogie with the Butt sisters 4 It has been described by one critic as another self defining hit for the band 4 and by another as the seminal narrative of celebratory butt songs in the same vein as similarly themed records such as Da Butt Rump Shaker and Baby Got Back 5 The song is considered an icon of black music bringing humor into the larger narrative that emerged in the mid seventies 6 Chart history editChart 1975 PeakpositionCanada RPM Top Singles 7 30U S Billboard Hot 100 8 16U S Billboard R amp B 22U S Cash Box Top 100 21References edit Whitburn Joel 2003 Top Pop Singles 1955 2002 1st ed Menomonee Falls Wisconsin Record Research Inc p 115 ISBN 0 89820 155 1 Whitburn Joel 1996 Top R amp B Hip Hop Singles 1942 1995 Record Research p 69 Item Display RPM Library and Archives Canada Collectionscanada gc ca 1975 04 26 Retrieved 2018 05 27 a b Dave Thompson Funk Hal Leonard Corporation 2001 ISBN 978 0879306298 p 83 Excerpts available at Google Books 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 Banfield William 2010 Cultural Codes Makings of a Black Music Philosophy Plymouth Scarecrow Press p 159 ISBN 9780810872868 Retrieved 19 December 2014 RPM Top 100 Singles May 24 1975 PDF Joel Whitburn s Top Pop Singles 1955 1990 ISBN 0 89820 089 X Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Bertha Butt Boogie amp oldid 1144924609, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
