Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)

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"Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)"
Single by Joe Tex
from the album Bumps & Bruises
ReleasedDecember 1976
Recorded1976
Studio Sound Shop (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Funk, disco, R&B, comedy
Length3:30(single version)
6:34 (full version)
Label Tree Productions, Epic
Songwriter(s) Bennie Lee McGinty (Joe Tex), Buddy Killen
Producer(s) Buddy Killen
Joe Tex singles chronology
"Have You Ever"
(1976)		"Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)"
(1976)		"Hungry For Your Love"
(1977)

"Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" is a song composed by Joe Tex and Buddy Killen, and released by Tex as a single in December 1976, bringing the musician back to the top 40 of the US pop and R&B charts simultaneously for the first time since 1972's "I Gotcha". Tex used his aunt Bennie Lee McGinty's name as composer for tax reasons.

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Reception

Tex's previous hit, "Have You Ever", was a hit in New Zealand. In the US, "Ain't Gonna Bump No More" was received well upon its release, reaching number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 on the Billboard R&B chart. [1] Overseas, it was also a success in Europe, reaching number 2 in the UK Singles Chart [2] and number 3 in Ireland.

Tex was later nominated for a Grammy Award for the song and performed it at the ceremony in 1978. The song was later included on the album Bumps & Bruises , without the parenthetical part of the title of the single. It would be Tex's final hit before his death in 1982. [3]

Charts

Personnel

Credits taken from the liner notes of the LP Bumps & Bruises [23]

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