Blowfly's Party

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Blowfly's Party
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Studio album by
Released1980
Genre Parody, Funk
Label Weird World Records
Producer Blowfly
Blowfly chronology
Zodiac Party
(1978)
Blowfly's Party
(1980)
Rappin', Dancin' and Laughin'
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Blowfly's Party is the 1980 album by Clarence Reid as his alter ego Blowfly. It was released on the Weird World Records label, a subsidiary of T.K. Records. [2] This album featured a reworked version of the classic "Rap Dirty" and also managed to chart in the US pop albums chart at No. 82 [3] and on the Black Albums chart at No. 26. [4]

Contents

The album was originally released under the name Blowfly's Disco Party but was reissued under the alternate title to avoid confusion with the 1977 album Disco.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Clarence Reid

No.TitleParody [5] Length
1."Blowfly's Rap (Instrumental)" 8:39
2."Panty Lines" 4:16
3."Prick Ryder" 3:27
4."Nobody’s Butt But Yours, Babe"Nobody But You Babe by Clarence Reid3:47
5."Blowfly's Rapp" 6:46
6."Show Me a Man Who Don't Like to Fuck" 3:37
7."Who Did I Eat Last Night?" 4:11
8."Can I Come In Your Mouth" 4:13

Personnel

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References

  1. Blowfly's Party – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  2. Weird World RateYourMusic. Retrieved January 30, 2015
  3. "Billboard". (from Google Books). August 2, 1980. p. 65.
  4. "Billboard". (from Google Books). August 9, 1980. p. 18.
  5. WhoSampled, list of all tracks parodied. Retrieved January 30th, 2015