My Ten Favorite Woman Songs: Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) (#4)

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Super music geek @teamfreak16 started a series of "girl songs," and I picked it up. After we both did that and "boy songs," he went with songs with men's and women's names in the title, while I'm going with women, men, and women & men songs. Here's the next song in the countdown. #4: Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) - Joe Tex Hmm...."Fat Women in Trailers" and now this? Hey, what can I say? I'm calorically enhanced, so I'm entitled. There's a couple of big shocks about this song. First, my late, lovely, country music-loving mother loved this song. She saw the humor in this song, which was sadly the final hit in the career of legendary R&B singer Joe Tex (who gave us songs like "Skinny Legs and All" and "I Gotcha"). This is a novelty disco song (I guess I should say this was intentionally funny...there were a lot of disco songs that I found unintentionally funny, in a sad way) about a guy in a disco wanting to do the popular 70s dance the "bump" (where two people bump a hip together) and getting knocked down -- literally -- by a "plus-sized" woman. Joe Tex died of a heart attack at the very young age of 47 in 1982. I mentioned there were two big shocks about this song. The other one is that this song was co-written by COUNTRY MUSIC songwriter, musician, and executive Buddy Killen. If that's not a big enough shock, country singer Janie Fricke sang back-up on the recording! Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) Written by Joe Tex (under the pseudonym Bennie Lee McGinty) and Buddy Killen Recorded by Joe Tex From Bumps and Bruises, 1977 Somebody take her! She done hurt my hip once!