The Bertha Butt Boogie

It achieved a No. 16 placing on the US pop chart and reached No. 22 on the US R&B chart. It was also a top 40 hit in Canada.

"The Bertha Butt Boogie"
single cover artwork
Single by Jimmy Castor Bunch
from the album Butt of Course
B-side	"The Bertha Butt Boogie, Part 2" (instrumental track of Part 1)
Released	February 1975
Genre	Funk
Length	3:10
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Jimmy Castor, Johnny L Pruitt
Jimmy Castor Bunch singles chronology
"Soul Serenade" (1975) "The Bertha Butt Boogie" (1975) "Potential" (1975)
Alternative cover

The record was a follow-up to the band's 1972 top 10 hit "Troglodyte (Cave Man)", which also featured the "Bertha Butt" character, who showed up on several more Jimmy Castor Bunch tracks in following years; it also calls back to two previous Castor recordings, "Hey Leroy Your Mama's Calling You" and "Luther the Anthropoid (Cave Man)", who appear with the troglodyte midway through the song to boogie with the Butt sisters. It has been described by one critic as "another self-defining hit" for the band, and by another as the "seminal narrative" of "celebratory butt songs" in the same vein as similarly themed records such as "Da Butt", "Rump Shaker", and "Baby Got Back".

The song is considered an icon of black music, bringing humor into the larger narrative that emerged in the mid-seventies.