She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)

"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)"
Single by Carl Carlton
B-side "This Feeling's Rated X-tra"
Released August 1981
Format 7" single
Genre R&B, soul, funk, disco
Length 5:52
Label 20th Century
Songwriter(s) Leon Haywood
Carl Carlton singles chronology
"This Feeling's Rated X-Tra"
(1980)		 "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)"
(1981)		 "I Think It's Gonna Be Alright"
(1982)

"This Feeling's Rated X-Tra"
(1980)		 "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)"
(1981)		 "I Think It's Gonna Be Alright"
(1982)

"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)" is a single by Carl Carlton. The song was written by Leon Haywood and became a major R&B hit, earning Carlton a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male[1] in 1982.

The track peaked at # 22 in the U.S., and became a Gold record. It spent 21 weeks on the American charts, six weeks longer than his bigger hit, "Everlasting Love." It reached # 34 in the UK Singles Chart.[2]

"She's a Bad Mama Jama" also spent eight weeks at number two on the R&B/Soul chart. It was blocked from the top spot by Diana Ross's and Lionel Richie's song, "Endless Love".

Carlton's subsequent album, Carl Carlton, went gold in 1981. "She's a Bad Mama Jama" has since become a staple of compilation albums and soundtracks and is often sampled in rap music,[3] including Foxy Brown and Dru Hill's Big Bad Mamma.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1981-82) Peak
position
New Zealand[4] 27
UK[2] 34
US Billboard Hot 100 22
US Billboard Soul Singles[5] 2
US Cash Box Top 100 23

Year-end charts

Chart (1981) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 136

References

  1. ↑ L.A. Times "The Envelope" awards database, (Accessed August 15, 2006)
  2. 1 2 Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 94. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  3. ↑ "Samples of She's a Bad Mama Jama". whosampled.com. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, February 14, 1982
  5. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research.
  6. ↑ "1981 Year End". Bullfrogspond.com. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
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