Bootsy? Player of the Year

Infobox Album
Name = Bootsy? Player of the Year
Type = studio
Artist = Bootsy's Rubber Band


Released = 1978
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Funk
Length = 45:32
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Bootsy Collins, George Clinton
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0vfexqt5ldje~T1 link]
Last album = "Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!"
(1977)
This album = "Bootsy? Player of the Year"
(1978)
Next album = "This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N"
(1979)

"Bootsy? Player of the Year" is the third album by the American funk band Bootsy's Rubber Band. The album was released on Warner Bros. Records in January 1978. At the height of the album's popularity, it competed head to head with Bootsy Collins' mentor George Clinton and his band Parliament, who had just charted a month earlier with the album "Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome".

"Bootsy? Player of the Year" featured two hit singles, "Bootzilla", which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles charts, and "Hollywood Squares". The album peaked at number one on the Billboard Soul Album charts. The original vinyl version of the album contained a pair of cut out star shaped eyeglasses. It probably stands as the band's most successful album to date. The album introduces Collins' roles as Bootzilla and The Player [http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_bootsy/alb-player.html: Motherpage] [http://www.funky-stuff.com/bootsy/inter_nft1.htm: New Funk Times' Collins interview] .

The album was produced by George Clinton and Bootsy Collins and arranged by "THE PLAYER". The album was reissued in 1990 by Warner/Pioneer of Japan (now Warner Music-Japan), then through WEA International in the mid-1990's and then by Time/Warner in the U.S. in April of 1998.

Track listing

;Radio Active / A / Side 1
#"Bootsy? (What's the Name Of This Town)" (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Maceo Parker) - (6:59)
#"May The Force Be With You" (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Gary Cooper) - (6:02)
#"Very Yes" (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Gary Cooper) - (8:24);Monster Rock / A+ / Side 2
#"Bootzilla" (released as a single-Warners WB 8512) (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton) - (5:38)
#"Hollywood Squares" (released as a single-Warner WBS 8575) (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Frank Waddy) - (6:15)
#"Roto-Rooter" (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Phelps Collins) - (6:25)
#"As In (I Love You)" (Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Bernie Worrell) - (5:08)

Personnel

*Guitars: Phelps Collins, Bootsy Collins
*Drums: Frank Waddy, Bootsy Collins, Gary Cooper
*Bass: Bootsy Collins
*Keyboards: Joel Johnson
*Horns: Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Richard Griffith, Rick Gardner
*Vocals: Gary Cooper, Robert Johnson