booty call

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Lynne Murphy wrote:

> --On Wednesday, March 6, 2002 11:46 am -0800 Indigo Som <indigo at WELL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> > Have we talked about "booty call" on this list? I first heard it just a
> > few months ago, then immediately saw it *everywhere*, & realized I had
> > been way out of the loop. But the question is: how long has booty call
> > been around & where did it come from?  (or: how out of it am I!?)
>
> Well there was a 1997 movie by that name

Billboard (23 Apr. 1994) noted that there was a single titled "Da Booty
Call" recorded by Da KO Boyz.  Freaks of Nature recorded another single
titled "Booty Call" also in the spring of 1994.

Fred Shapiro


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