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Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! is a funk album by Bootsy's Rubber Band, released on January 15, 1977. It reached number one on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Soul albums chart, the first P-Funk release to achieve this goal. The album was produced by George Clinton and William "Bootsy" Collins and arranged by Bootsy and Casper (names William Collins uses to refer to his various roles [1]).

Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Studio album by Bootsy's Rubber Band
Released	January 15th, 1977
Recorded	1976
Studio	United Sound Systems, Detroit; Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood
Genre	Funk, psychedelic soul
Length	38:59
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Bootsy Collins, George Clinton
Bootsy's Rubber Band chronology
Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band (1976) Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (1977) Bootsy? Player of the Year (1978)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[3]
Rolling Stone	favorable[4]
The Village Voice	B[5]
The Baltimore Sun	(favourable)[6]

Bootsy's second album is widely considered his best: the Motherpage gives it five-star ratings. Similar to most of Bootsy's other work, it is divided between dance tracks and slow jams. The song "The Pinocchio Theory" inspired the George Clinton creation Sir Nose D'voidoffunk (see P-Funk mythology: the song says if you fake the funk, your nose will grow, and Sir Nose fakes the funk).

The title track was inspiration for Eazy-E's 1988 track We Want Eazy, with Bootsy making a cameo appearance in the song's musical video.

Track listing

Side I / El Uno – A Friendly Boo

1. "Ahh...the Name is Bootsy, Baby" (William Collins, George Clinton, Maceo Parker) – (6:52)
2. "The Pinocchio Theory" (William Collins, George Clinton) – (6:08) (released as a single-Warner Bros. 8328)
3. "Rubber Duckie" (William Collins, George Clinton, Garry Shider) – (3:18) (released as the b-side to "The Pinocchio Theory")
4. "Preview Side Too" (William Collins, George Clinton, Gary Cooper) – (0:56)

Side II / Un Dos – Geepieland Music

1. "What's a Telephone Bill?" (William Collins, George Clinton, Gary Cooper) – (5:58)
2. "Munchies for Your Love" (William Collins, George Clinton, Gary Cooper, Garry Shider) – (9:39)
3. "Can't Stay Away" (William Collins, George Clinton) – (5:28) (released as a single-Warner Bros. 8403)
4. "Reprise: We Want Bootsy" (William Collins, George Clinton, Maceo Parker) – (0:20)

Personnel

• Phelps "Catfish" Collins, Garry Shider, Michael Hampton, Glenn Goins, Bootsy Collins - guitar
• Frankie "Kash" Waddy, Jerome Brailey, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Bootsy Collins - drums
• Joel "Razor-Sharp" Johnson, Bernie Worrell - keyboards
• Bootsy Collins, Casper (William Earl Collins)- bass
• Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Rick Gardner, Richard "Kush" Griffith - Horny Horns
• Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker - horns
• Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Robert "P-Nut" Johnson - "front ground" vocals
• Fred Wesley, Bootsy Collins - horn arrangements

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions[7]
		US	US R&B
1977	Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!	16	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[8]
		US	US R&B	US Dance
1977	"The Pinocchio Theory"	—	6	—
	"Can't Stay Away"	—	19	—

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1977 (U.S.)

References

External links

• Bootsy's Rubber Band-Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! at Discogs
• Bootsy's Rubber Band-Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! on The Motherpage

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