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Released
  
January 30th, 1976

Artist
  
Bootsy Collins

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
39:51

Release date
  
30 January 1976

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Recorded
  
1975–1976 United Sound Systems, Detroit, Michigan

Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band (1976)
  
Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (1977)

Genres
  
Funk, Soul music, Rhythm and blues

Producers
  
Bootsy Collins, George Clinton

Similar
  
Bootsy Collins albums, Funk albums

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Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band is the first album by American funk and soul band Bootsy's Rubber Band, an offshoot act of Parliament-Funkadelic led by bassist and vocalist William "Bootsy" Collins. It was released on January 30, 1976, on Warner Bros. Records.

Contents

Recording and Release

The album was recorded around the same time as Parliament's Mothership Connection and Funkadelic's Let's Take It To The Stage at United Sound Systems in Detroit, Michigan. The album was produced by Collins and George Clinton. Collins co-wrote all of the album's seven songs (two with Clinton, one with vocalist Leslyn Bailey and four with Clinton and other band members) and did the arrangements (horn arrangements in collaboration with Fred Wesley).

Since its original release, Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band has been reissued and remastered several times. In 2007, the album was licensed through Rhino Records and reissued through the Collectors Choice Music service.

Samples

"I'd Rather Be With You" is a highly sampled song, appearing in at least 40 other Hip-Hop and R&B songs. In 1991, "I'd Rather Be With You" was sampled by Eazy-E in N.W.A's "I'd Rather Fuck You" from their album Niggaz4Life. 1995 saw the song sampled again in Adina Howard's hit single "Freak Like Me". 2Pac sampled the tune in "Ratha Be Ya Nigga" on his album All Eyez on Me. Beyoncé interpolated the chorus in her composition "Be With You" on her debut album, 2003's Dangerously In Love. R&B singer Eamon interpolated the song with slight modifications in his 2004 composition "I'd Rather Fuck With You" for his debut album, I Don't Want You Back.

Personnel

Certain personnel are credited under nicknames on the album sleeve. The full names are given below.

Songs

1Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band)6:54
2Psychoticbumpschool5:21
3Another Point of View7:03

References

Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band Wikipedia