| "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)" | ||||
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 Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by Carl Carlton | ||||
| from the album Carl Carlton | ||||
| B-side | "This Feeling's Rated X-tra" | |||
| Released | August 1981 | |||
| Genre | Post-disco [1] | |||
| Length | 5:52 (album version) 3:56 (single version) | |||
| Label | 20th Century | |||
| Songwriter | Leon Haywood | |||
| Carl Carlton singles chronology | ||||
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"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 [2] in 1982. 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.
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The track peaked at number 22 in the U.S. [3] It spent 21 weeks on the American charts, six weeks longer than his bigger hit, "Everlasting Love." "She's a Bad Mama Jama" also spent eight weeks at number two on the R&B/Soul chart. And on popular Top 40 radio station WABC in New York City, it hit No. 3 at the end of September 1981. [4] "She's a Bad Mama Jama" was certified a Gold record. Outside the US, it reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart. [5]