Bootsy Collins - What's a Telephone Bill
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- Bootsy Collins - What's a Telephone Bill
Lyrics:
Hello baby
Yes, it's your friendly phone fanatic again
Oh yeah I'm loaded
With verbal rap ability, baby
You know you inspire me to poetry
So listen while I recite naughty nothings
That'll wet your eardrums
I'd like to, I'd like to, I'd like to
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh, can I make sweet love to you baby?
What I'd like to do would be good to you
And if you hang up on me now, I'll be through
I'm just living and loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can't your love, then
What's a telephone bill?
According to way the way you make me feel
I guess you'd call it obscene phone call
I'm not a storyteller though baby
I'd rather be with you, me to me
Oh, a sort of physical love, like, bubba
Oh, you're the sweetest fantasy I know
You
Excuse me if I seem obscene to you
I'm being real and that seems the thing to do
I'm just living and loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can't get your love, then
What's a telephone bill?
Oh baby, uh, just wanna hang on
I'd like to, I'd like to, I'd like to yeah, yeah, yeah
I'd like to make sweet love to you
Oh no, not that baby
I wanna be real with you
Let me just breathe in your ear hole baby
(Ohhhh ohhhh)
Don't fake me out
I love you baby
(I'd like to make sweet love to you)
Let me see if I can hit that note again
I love you baby
(Ohhh ohhh doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
(I'd like to make sweet love to you)
Can you just explain to me what key are you in, baby?
I'd like to get real funk-kay
(I'd like to make sweet love to you)
I'm just living and loving waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can't get your love, then
What's a telephone bill?
I'm just living and loving waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can't get your love, then
What's a telephone bill?
I'm just living and loving waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can't get your love, then
What's a telephone bill?
Oh, oh
I'd like to make sweet love to you
Maybe I'll manicure your toenails
And uh, make sweet love to you baby!
Rub my body with yours
Wait a minute operator, I'm not talking to you!
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More great funk/soul music: • Best Funk/Soul Classic...
© 1977 Warner Bros. Records
#BootsyCollins #Funk #Classics
SOMEWHERE THERE'S A DRUNK UNCLE LISTENING TO THIS AND ASKING EVERYBODY,WHAT YALL KNOW ABOUT THIS YOUNGBLOODS
Lmao my brother is an uncle and he's drunk right now, sending me this song 😂
"this grown people music..."
@EdgeO419 jodddyyyy
Yeahz!!!!! I can dig it!!!
He is i!!!!
THIS MAN DOES NOT GET HIS FLOWERS ENOUGH 😭
He certainly gets flowers from me 💐🌹 ... this song is from another dimension
Have a great St Patrick's Day Bootsy 😮
A l. 111s
Most definitely
Black Music Honors brought me here! He got his flowers that night! But you are SO right! He hardly enough recognition while he was spreading the Funk! IJS!
Bootsy is the Grand Master of Funk and Verbal Rap-a-bility
Bootsy ain't even human !!!! I heard if he gave u directions you would arrive 10 minutes earlier then scheduled ! Rumors yah know
+Zapata boxing haha i can dig it
Yes Suh! "Tell Me What Key Are You In Ba-by" 🎸🔥🎸
...and he played instruments.
What about George Clinton
This is one of the catchiest songs I've ever heard and it's clearly a blueprint for many popular songs to come decades later
Bootsy!😅
Bootsy Collins = Best thing to ever happen to Bass
Nikkolo Makaveli AND THAT SEXY FUNK....😍😍😍
Agreed MY BROTHER
Slapping a bass is, for the most part a production no-no.... But Bootsie makes it art. SO DAMN FUNKY
Bootsy inspired me to wanna learn Bass!!
arguable
Larry graham
Flea
The summer of 1977. This album was the shit! I was 11 yrs old. Having all the summer fun. Big cars and Big Afro's and (Cake Cutter) afro picks. Bell Bottom jeans, Polyester Shirts. Chuck Taylor Convers. Picnics at the park. Riding on your Schwinn 5 speed. Crushes on girls, Going to the beach. Man, those where the days! Who remembers Adidas bags? Guess what! This was one of a many good songs that were the sound tracks of our lives!
I was 14... this was the s*&^. LOL
1137rr ...
AMEN...
YOU SAID IT ALL MAN...
I LOVED BEIN' A 70's BABY....
FlyStein that rake though...with the custom handle
OK!!!!! I was 12 and I was just telling moms I used to jam this on my record player in my room!!!
FlyStein with wallabies,romeos&chukc's
In my opinion there is no Andre 3000 without A Bootsy Collins‼️‼️
I stole this album from a friend, who stole it from another friend, who stole it back from me, then gave it to his girlfriend who sold it back to me when he went to jail...them was the good ol' days
The Original Gamer lol
My cousin made me laugh yesterday he said the realest shit ever it goes ( you steal it we buy it, you buy it we still it) 😂😂😂
Thatz LoVe....
Lol!!! That's music acquisition.....the hood way! Or, youngsters in general? Any way you can, acquire it....pass it....return to it!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Saw Bootsy bout a year ago. He is still the " Player of the Year"
he's retiring from live shows now
2024 and this is still jumping !
Yess
Bootsy got that Bass talkin' like Charlie Brown's teacher. "Wa-wu-wu-wa-wa-wa-waaaa"
Harmony Wisdom good one
Harmony Wisdom Teena Marie Young Blood can you Youngblood
Harmony Wisdom #CCCCPPPPPRRRR LMAO!!!!
Harmony Wisdom dont he
You ain't lying
Growing up in the 80s loving all that 70s funk from my parents vinyls. The Best! Those album covers were a story in themselves! Rip mom n dad I 💜U
I from the 62 i am old school i no it all this the shit and menny more
My condolences
Beautifully said. May your parents spirits keep riding that soul train all the way to the stars n beyond.
80s baby 70s influenced. I can dig it , solid baby.
Good ol' vinyl 👍👍👍 my parents let me keep their collections!!!!!
I'm high as fuck ...God bless you Bootsy Collins.
Man... I appreciate this comment so much!!! 👏👏👏👏
+julianne morgan you do? what a weird thing to say
+SouthOx????
+julianne morgan why do you appreciate the fact that he is "high as fuck"?
+SouthOx why is it your business?
I’m a 29 year old white woman who just discovered bootsy collins and wow. Wow. Wow. I’ve listened every single damn day for a week straight now. It literally doesn’t get better than this. I can see that other artists I like, like Thundercat were inspired by this kind of music or maybe just Bootsy himself. Holy crap this is a BOP. a HARD SLAPPING BOP
Man im so happy for you 😊😊😊
That’s what’s up we welcome you
Welcome luv ✨
Another modern artists who clearly was influenced by Bootsy is Connan Mockasin.
You about to be in serious trouble.....I am 61 ....and you need serious self control listening to Bootsy...then and still....lol
This album dropped during the height of Bootsys career.
1977 what a year. It seems that every other song u heard on the radio was from the P-Funk mob.
George had a vision and he lives to see that it still exists.
I will be bumping this shit until the day the casket drops ya dig!
Ain't Nuthin like them live instruments. Bootsy is the man
listen to Rufus Chaka Khan At Midnight, that rhythm section is on one!!! so funky!!!
+YOUNGDOFFTV Especially that wah bass guitar
Bootsy always been the man
Yes bootsy Collins is the funk master loaded with verbal rapability.
I swear
I was 16yo in Tampa and just saw the Mothership Connection concert. Real musicians playing real music.
You are right that's the real deal
This song sets the mood for a player to play ... and ain't nothing wrong with that at all! Play on play on 👏
💯
if it’s grass in the infield, play ball 😎😎
every musician I've ever hooked up with happened to be a bass player either by coincidence or universal design, I don't know which but, it was a bass player every time
You already know
Chuuch
I don't think you will ever hear a bass played like that again...Incredible!
Kendrick Lamar
La tragam - multi orgasmic😊
@@JEHOVAHLORDGodthundercat*
We str8 ballin'!!
César Augusto The Pac sample I salute you sir.
Str8 balling was my shit!
Like wise!
we str8 ballin forever nigga, thug life
go boosty! tupac got thug life!!!!
Had that guitar speaking in tongs!
Lol
So many dope ass rap songs came from this beat,and munchies for your love. Thank you Bootsy
First thing I think of is “I’m up before the sun rise first 2 hit the block , lil bad muthafucka with a pocket fulla rocks”
The one that stands out to me is The Other Day - Paul Wall and Chamillionaire
Tupac- Rather be a N.I.G.G.A
Straight Ballin OG version!!
This is the first time I've heard this song and I immediately recognised it was sampled in a 2Pac song but couldn't remember which one so I scrolled down hoping I'd find the answer...thank you! :-)
Yepp. 💯💢
@H H it was sampled by Yukmouth for his song for 2Pac called, Still ballin
Me too og
@@davosig1629 Pac sampled it first, on the Thug Life album. That song was called Str8 Ballin'
Hypnotic melody that ooze's SENSUALITY!
+tanya monroe; "Livin' and lovin, waitin' for the moment, when ya got time to kill". Indeed !
+Harry Green ha ha MR HARRY GREEN. NO QUESTION. STRAIGHT LIKE THAT! EXCUSE ME IF I SEEM OBSCENE TO YOU,WOW SMH.
Not at all !
Sounds good to me ❤️🎁
😘
Got hooked on Bootsy's Rubber Band in 1976 when I got out of the Army. Still hooked!
Tupac - Straight Ballin’ 🌹
This track is timeless. It never gets old. Riding with it in 2020. 🥰
2022😘
Still here
👾🙏👾
I still have this album, took it with me when I ran away from home at 12 years old
not the happiest time in my life but, I still love this song because it's pretty cheeky
Those live instruments man, fire!
Facts!!!!!
This is for you unc! R.I.P❤
He used to play this Album a lot when I was growing up. Yes I Said Album, if you know ya know. This brings back memories.
Bootsy was a vocalist and played bass on Teena Marie aka (Lady T) Emerald City CD..He appears courtesy of Arista Records...L.T rolled with nothing but the Best in her TIME!!!!!!
Don't fake me out, what key r u in I love ya Barbie. Tone B Philly
@@treasureharris1939 Bootsy was never on Arista Records
What’s a telephone bill?
A telephone bill use to be what you got when you met a girl at the club that you just had to talk to after going home. Then you realize that she lives far enough away to be a toll call, but she’s so much of “all that” that you don’t care or realize that with each passing minute the bill is in increasing, in miniscule amounts, but you are relating to her the only way you can until the next meeting. The you finally hang up the phone a few hours later before you have to get up in the morning, all the while anticipating and hoping the bill will be less than you expect so that when mom hit’s the ceiling when the bill arrives you’ll be able to soften the auditory anger by contributing to the reduction of the charges by handing her some money that she can put towards the charges that were only established in an effort to further the feelings of love, albeit puppy love, but nonetheless intense!
“That’s What a Telephone Bill Is, Was, and Will Become, for Some”!
R. Youngblood
hi bootsy I. love you. still. love you this is. Nina. I. used to work for. George. me and patty. braided. and. beaded. your beard
Sorry, I'm Bobby, not Bootsy!
Absolutely!
Anthony Montero wait a minute she's playing my Tootsie we gotta thang going on
Robert Youngblood back when long distance calls was important. I remember getting cussed out cause my mom was on a long distance.. I know that has nothing to do with the song that's just a memory of them long distance calls was important
Damn! This is funk slowed down in our ear drums! One of my favorite albums! "Can you just explain what key you in baby?" Dope lin!
Let me just breath in your ear hole baby..............Huhhhhhh
Yess
Yaaaaasssss this my era! Putting a little funk in your earhole!
😘
@@pamelamorris8365 😘
Bootzilla is the best bass player all time
Agreed
Str8 ballin!
Bootsy space bass sounds like liquid rubber water man it's crazy the bass is talking at the end!!!
PURE GENIUS
Most bass players kinda sound alike I mean they have their own style and are technically great but at that time nobody had that sound he had!
Right
Wa wa pedals and bootsy's hand wrapped around that bass is the sound you hear .
Yeah, he either had his Mutron pedal working overtime or a talk box for that synth-filter-wah effect.
Bootsy is the Hendrix of bass. . . .masters of their craft
Absolutely agree
This takes me back to a great era that displayed great music........because right now with the lack of singers if we were Bootsey we would say to today's music " Ahh could you just explain to me what key are you are in baby"
all music no computers!!!!!!!!!!
Synths count as computers... Since they have Processors, ram, and a storage medium...
Funk overrides. Program, deprogram, reprogram. Dig?
One of my favorite Bootsy songs!
I remember the good old days when my dad used to sing like Bootsy...we used to laugh so hard!!!! I miss my dad...he pass of covid-19 February 25,2021.
Sorry for OUR loss!
Stay On The One.....
Being a Playa brought me here.
Ace King rns
Ahahhahahahha @ace
😂
Ace King Tupac str8 ballin
Play on
Hooray Collins and Parliament. The best that ever lived!!!
Ive gotten old enough to understand the value of music is the amount of feelings you and the artist share through the track. A Timeless Classic.
Back when Long distance phone calls costed big money...My Mom was gonna Hurt me because of the girl I met on summer vacation that year...Lovin this, Thanks
Wait a minute operator, I wasn't talking to you.
Lol!
😄😄😄
kariebeez 😂😂😂😂🐛
kariebeez lol like took my soul up outta here wen he said that I yelled
🤣🤣
This is as much to funk as the wall by pink Floyd is to rock... Its dark.. its funky. and it will hypnotize you.
Sheeeeesh 💥 absolute 🔥 you guys in the “old school” had it better musically. Real instruments real singing analog sound real everything and more unity to have bands
EXACTLY
"I'd like to, I'd like to"😍😍 "I'm just living and a loving waiting for the moment when you got time to kill"😍😍😍
Hearing this man on my mother's stereo, made me fall in love with him and his songs.
I am a '99 baby, and I still love oldies music.
Bootsie!!!! Thank you for creating amazing music like this!!
I was about 10 or 11 visiting my relatives in Chi-Town when I first heard this song. Of Course it got no air-play down south. It was magical to me. Musicians know what I'm talking about. Funk musicians that is. I still remember the chick I had a crush on at that time. As humans it's all we have. Memories!
YungAlmighty AMG shitn me it got airplay in Columbia S.C
Got airplay all day in San Antone.
Columbia S.C. for show. We got the music before the north.
Just in case you didn't know...this is what the funk sounds like slowed down...Bootsy Collins bonified Funkateer as well as a bass playing God
Bootsy will always hit the spot
"Munchies For Your Bass"&"Str8 Ballin'" Wow!!!!
Munchies for your bass....WOOOOOWWWW!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💪
Telephone sex the ancestor of the internet.
"Effin" great comment...........!!!!
You say ancestor like phone sex is exstinct.
Indeed Bootsy was ahead of his time like zap and Rogers computer love before
My name is Captain Kirk and I've been listening to Bootsy Collins music for a very long time he's the greatest all-time funky is bass player that I've ever heard in my whole entire life and I just want to say he's he's the greatest inspirational bass player of all times whatever walk this planet Earth and hopefully one day if God's willing I would like to meet him
Bootsy Collins is pure soul. African American music from the blues up until Prince is my favorite music ever. It's not racist to say that a race or country is better at something. It's just honesty. I love Prince. Let's celebrate. Life is too short, regardless of your spiritual beliefs. Much love to everyone listening to this beautiful music. Let's hope for a resurgence of this music soon xxx
I'm White English ..I agree with you 100 % listened to Black Soul music all my life x ❤
Yes this is my hands down favorite song by mr Collins
Aye I'm 33 and it's crazy how many of bootsy songs been sampled from PAC to snoop to as recent as childish gambino redbone. Straight fireeeee stillll 2018
richard norman x
Bro this guy has to be the most sampled artist ever
nah, it's zapp and roger
Mohamed Sareini ...James Brown is but Bootsy is close...they are truly gifted originals
willie hutch definitely
+Teresa Love bootsy played on some jb cuts and then bootsy music with his own rubber band and p funk was sampled to deaTh and let's not forget bootsy played guitar on zapps more bounce to the ounce
Perc Nowitzki Actually it's George Clinton. He played a lot with the P Funk Alstars though.
One of the greatest songs of all time 💕 I always listen 🎶 Thankful to be introduced to real music early
Lol your name😘
When this was out, the young brothers in the neighborhood used to come to me for advice. Once they asked me what do you say to a girl on the phone? I made them memorize the rap in this song. It used to get the girls hot every time, cause most of them had never heard this album. Oh to be a young player again.........
That literally never happened bro not even once
Ah! When good game was to be told, not sold. Real OG stuff!
Str8 Ballin ...
CraigofTheCrop Beats™ koo
I'd like tooo... I'd like tooo... I'd like tooo YEAH YEAH YEAH.... I miss the hell out of our era!!!
THE 1970S WAS THE BESTS DECADE EVER! 3 12 21.
rocking this as a 24 year old haole boy from hawaii. this song is a universal jam
lowermiddleclassy im 24 we men tho killing our eardrums with proper funk
this shit goes so hard. I play it for bitches all the time.
they almost always get super weirded out but fuck them
I’m a 80’s baby and this what I was raised up on music that made sense... still a hit 2019 🔥🔥
2023 still 😊
I saw bootsie at the coliseum in los Angeles CA in 1976 greatest thrill of my life still jamming him in 2020 jamie
and i was born in 76.
I'm 44 and my mother n uncles made sure I learned about Boosty when I lil girl. The REAL Boosty. Timeless
This is when an hour long-distance phone call could cost you $20.
Honey327
Exactly...so glad those days are over. But, they moved it to the Electric Bill now 😂
DAMN
Lol you are correct...
I called Eastern Europe for 18 hours from Spain. It cost me the same as a small boat. Or medium size really. It was not ideal
@@khalnetherfields7263 let's party man I talk for 20 hours
what an amazing time in life...amazing thanks for being alive in that era
My Head just a Bobbin I'm GETTING WHIPLASH 1977 WHAT A Year 🔥🔥🔥🔥Bootzilla Baby
As soon as it came in nemesis-munchies for your base brought back memories of my unc whom was born in 71 and I'm a '94 baby. He passed in '16 and I miss him dearly. Thanks for all of tha memories UNC! ❤ 😢 🎶 💪
str8 ballin'!
great relaxing high music love u bootsy
I was 16 when this came out great times had a lot of fun. I was a player if you didn't have a job or in the Military I had no time for you! I wasn't a Golddigger I just didn't want no broke brother. I'm a good woman have been for years 3 kids been Married 26 years!❤️❤️❤️🎼🎼🎼 God has been good to me! Thank you Jesus💙🙏🏾
This that ole school ish where you put ur 🎧 on, lay down in the middle of floor, smoke on some ish, close ur eyes and just zone out & let the music take you there... Whose listening wit me in 2019?
Bootsy Collins brought me here
GutterSlime420 mtume brought me here
I'm 54, I bought this album when I was 13 in 1977 with my paper route money. Wisest $5.99 investment I ever made.
Hilary Kang Yes it was lol
wait a minute operator, I'm not talking to you...😂😂😂😂
Omfg this is brilliant, Bootsy was a funkin' genius.
I first heard this album on 8 track...as a small child and two years ago on a relic stereo!! Good stuff. Funk Forevaaah!!
Just had this classic come up on the feed..
Recognized the Album cover immediately, as the 12" vinyl i imported to NZ as 16yr old kid in '79 is stil in the vinyl collection
..Magical funkified memories.. & still being played as recently as the weekend past with a gathering of friends from those very days.
Very cool.. Hail Bootsy's Rubber Band
Ah Man!! This album right here was straight🔥🔥 I was also blessed to see them perform it, opening for Parliament Funkadelic. What great memories! Don't hate..that's when music was GREAT! 🎸 🎸💕
😘
R.i.p tupac
18 and loving this ever since I first heard it. Let's work on bringing this funk back, to
hell with today's trash.
i wish i Can give this another. thumbs up.. oh wait a minute 👍👍👍👍👌
Chase Blackman facts!!!
Played this at least 10 times a week since it came out too this day let me just breathe in your ear hole
this shit ain't got nothing to do with pac, snoop , none of them, this is the beginning, this is old school, this is real school, this is r&b funkadelics, you ahve to adapt to this this shit.
mapyzme All rap is real rap. The genre has evolved like or not and new rap is still valid.
mapyzme Real recognize real GO GO GIVE IT ALL U GOT!!!!!. THE LOSERS 😋😘😂😎😍😋
This is real rap
A Cincy Legend!!!! 513 baby!!!
yes, ohio playaz are in the house. 2one6 here.
Snoop Dog brought me here. 2020 Nice classic music ❤️❤️❤️
featuring the gloriously freaky vocal of Gary 'Mudbone' Cooper...
best solo bootsy song well this and Munchies for your love
I am old all that they will give me a back Ake
That music boi.... It just runs through me. That breakdown though, whoo!
Back when my bike matched the Caprice Classic in the yard.Burgundy and White!!! Love it
Untouchable Classic PERFECTION 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯‼️
The Greatest Bass player of all time!!
DJ Quick had a wonderful ear for this when he rearranged it for Tupacs Straight Balln'...simply genus!!!
wow, im a diehard P-FUNKER / FUNKATEER,i grew up listen to Bootsy n George Clinton,,from my older brother T-Bone n his friends when i was just 11 yrs old now 58 ,i listen to the this Bootsy album in the summer of 1977 laying down next to the speakers while i visit my sister n Nephew Tim,in Dorchester Mass,,and still listen to it today,june 30,2019,, the Funk is still alive ,never will die !!!!
Gary Cooper, Robert Johnson, P-Funk harmony at it's best......
Hey, wasn't this song a hit back during the 1970s? I remember hearing my older sister playin' it.
One of the best albums of all time!!! I played it over & over & over ... PFunk at it's finest!! Killed the bass & vocals too, funky & sexy :)
Still can't figure out why my sisters wouldn't let me listen to Bootsy when I was younger.
+conrad Suttin lolz
It's too funky fo' you!
+Octo Gone lmao literally bout to say the same
+Vernon Kendall Nope. If that was the case they wouldn't have took me to see the ParliFunkadelic UnderWaterBootyAffair Tour
I don't see why ain't nothing wrong about it's just about getting it on but in a nice way