| The Weird World of Blow Fly | ||||
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| Released | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Parody | |||
| Length | 35:21 | |||
| Label | Weird World Records | |||
| Producer | Blow Fly | |||
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The Weird World of Blow Fly is the debut album by Clarence Reid as his alter ego Blowfly. It was released in 1973 on the Weird World Records label, a subsidiary of T.K. Records. [1] The album features sexually explicit spoofs of soul and R&B hits, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Stewart Mason stating, "Some will undoubtedly find the whole enterprise juvenile and distasteful, and frankly, a couple of the parodies are a little too obvious to be clever..., but most of the album is really very funny, for those who like this sort of thing". [2]
All tracks are written by Clarence Reid
| No. | Title | Parody [3] | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Intro" | 1:05 | |
| 2. | "My Baby Keeps Farting In My Face" | "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" by BJ Thomas | 1:31 |
| 3. | "Hold On It's Running" | "Hold On, I'm Comin'" by Sam & Dave | 1:24 |
| 4. | "Hole Man" | "Soul Man" by Sam & Dave | 3:00 |
| 5. | "The Eating Song (Yum-Yum)" | "The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)" by Otis Redding | 2:04 |
| 6. | "Shitting On The Dock of the Bay" | "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding | 2:34 |
| 7. | "To-To-To-To-To (The Fart Song)" | "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" by Major Lance | 3:54 |
| 8. | "I Don't Want No Woman to Give Me Nothing" | "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing" by James Brown | 1:39 |
| 9. | "The Eater" | "The Cheater" by Bob Kuban and the In-Men | 3:19 |
| 10. | "Spermy Night in Georgia" | "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Tony Joe White | 2:20 |
| 11. | "Odd Balls" | 2:28 | |
| 12. | "Baby Let Me Do it To You" | "Can I Change My Mind" by Tyrone Davis | 1:50 |
| 13. | "It's a Faggot's World" | "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" by James Brown | 2:19 |
| 14. | "A Child's Dick" | "With a Child's Heart" by Stevie Wonder | 2:10 |
| 15. | "The Sperm Is Gone" | "The Thrill Is Gone" by Roy Hawkins | 2:42 |
| 16. | "Outro" | 1:09 |
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