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
Length 4:32
Label 20th Century
Writer(s) Leon Haywood
Certification Gold
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)

"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 hit, peaking at #2 on the soul chart and 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]

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, including Foxy Brown and Dru Hill's Big Bad Mamma.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
UK[2] 34
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 22
U.S. Billboard Soul Singles 2
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 23

Year-end charts

Chart (1981) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [3] 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. ↑ http://www.bullfrogspond.com/whitburn/1981wye.htm
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