The Electric Spanking of War Babies is the twelfth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by American funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 band Funkadelic

Funkadelic

Funkadelic was an American band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...

, released in 1981 on Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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. The title is an allusion to the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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 and baby boomers. It features many relative newcomers to the P-Funk mob, many of whom would remain employed by George Clinton

George Clinton (funk musician)

George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...

 on future releases under his own name or under the name George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. Sly Stone is a collaborator on this album. Clinton originally planned on this being a double album

Double album

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, but the idea was quashed by Warner Brothers. Some of the deleted tracks would appear on future P-Funk releases, most notably the 1983 hit single "Atomic Dog

Atomic Dog

"Atomic Dog" is a song by George Clinton from his 1982 album Computer Games. The track was released as a single in December 1982 and became the P-Funk collective's last to reach #1 on the U.S. R&B Chart...

" which appeared on the first George Clinton solo album, Computer Games

Computer Games (album)

Computer Games is a 1982 album by funk musician George Clinton, released on Capitol Records. Though technically Clinton's first "solo" album, the record featured most of the same personnel who had appeared on recent albums by Parliament and Funkadelic, both formally disbanded by Clinton in 1981...

.

Track listing

1. "The Electric Spanking of War Babies
   The Electric Spanking of War Babies (song)
   "The Electric Spanking of War Babies" is the title track from the last album recorded by the American funk band Funkadelic. The song was released as a single in 1981 by Warner Bros. Records. Instrumentally the track was constructed by co-writer Walter Morrison...
   
   " (Bob Bishop, George Clinton
   George Clinton (funk musician)
   George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...
   
   , Walter Morrison
   Walter Morrison
   Walter "Junie" Morrison is a musician and producer born in Dayton, Ohio. Morrison was a producer, writer, keyboardist and vocalist for the funk band the Ohio Players in the early 70s, where he wrote and produced their first major hit, "Funky Worm"...
   
   ) (Released as a single - Warner Bros. 49667)
2. "Electro-Cuties" (J. Ali, Clinton, Ron Ford)
3. "Funk Gets Stronger" (Part I) (Clinton, Michael Hampton
   Michael Hampton
   Michael Hampton is a funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic....
   
   )
4. "Brettino's Bounce" (Larry Fratangelo) (Released as the B-side to "Shockwaves")
5. "Funk Gets Stronger" (Killer Millimeter Longer Version) (Clinton, Sylvester Stewart)
6. "She Loves You
   She Loves You
   "She Loves You" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney based on an idea by McCartney, originally recorded by The Beatles for release as a single in 1963. The single set and surpassed several records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States by being one of the...
   
   " (John Lennon
   John Lennon
   John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
   
   , Paul McCartney
   Paul McCartney
   Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
   
   )
7. "Shockwaves" (Ron Dunbar, DeWayne McKnight) (Released as a single - Warner Bros. 49807)
8. "Oh, I" (Clinton, Rodney Curtis, Garry Shider
   Garry Shider
   Garry Marshall Shider was an American musician and guitarist. He was musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.-Early life:Shider was born in Plainfield, New...
   
   )
9. "Icka Prick" (Clinton, Shider)

Critical response

• "Electric Spanking is an above-average party album"
  • All Music

External links

• The Electric Spanking of War Babies at Discogs
  Discogs
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• the Motherpage

Personnel

"The Electric Spanking of War Babies"

• Vocals: George Clinton
• Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Drums: Walter Morrison
  Walter Morrison
  Walter "Junie" Morrison is a musician and producer born in Dayton, Ohio. Morrison was a producer, writer, keyboardist and vocalist for the funk band the Ohio Players in the early 70s, where he wrote and produced their first major hit, "Funky Worm"...
  
  
• Lead Guitar: Michael Hampton
  Michael Hampton
  Michael Hampton is a funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic....
  
  

"Electro-Cuties"

• Vocals: George Clinton
• Bass: Jimmie Ali
• Lead Guitar: Michael Hampton, Jerome Ali
• Rhythm Guitar: Gordon Carlton
• Drums: Kenny Colton

"Funk Gets Stronger (Part I)"

• Lead Vocals: George Clinton
• Vocals: Bootsy Collins
  Bootsy Collins
  William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...
  
  
• Bass: Lige Curry
• Lead Guitar: Michael Hampton
• Rhythm Guitar, Bass & Moog: Roger Troutman
  Roger Troutman
  Roger Troutman was the lead singer of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the Funk movement and heavily influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music over the years...
  
  
• Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
• Percussion: Larry Fratangelo
• Trumpet: Cynthia Robinson
  Cynthia Robinson
  Cynthia Robinson is an American musician, best known for being the trumpeter and vocalist in the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone...
  
  
• Saxophone: Pat Rizzo
  Pat Rizzo
  Pat Rizzo is an American saxophonist and flautist, best known for his work with funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1972 to 1975.During this period Rizzo also performed with Tito Puente and Frank Sinatra. He started performing in the sixties with The Cufflinks...
  
  

"Brettino's Bounce"

• Drums, Percussion: Larry Fratangelo

"Funk Gets Stronger (Killer Millimeter Longer Version)"

• Lead Vocals: George Clinton, Sly Stone
  Sly Stone
  Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
  
  
• Lead Guitar: Eddie Hazel
  Eddie Hazel
  Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel was a guitarist in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic...
  
  
• Rhythm Gtr, Keyboards, Synth: Sly Stone
• Trumpet: Cynthia Robinson
• Sax: Pat Rizzo
• Drums: Sly Stone

"Shockwaves"

• Lead Vocals: Donnie Sterling
• Bass: Lige Curry
• Guitar: DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight
• Drums: Kenny Colton
• Percussion: Larry Fratangelo

"Oh, I"

• Lead Vocals: Garry Shider
  Garry Shider
  Garry Marshall Shider was an American musician and guitarist. He was musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.-Early life:Shider was born in Plainfield, New...
  
  
• Bass: Rodney "Skeet" Curtis
• Lead Guitar: Michael Hampton, Jerome Ali
• Keyboards: Marion Saulsby
• Rhythm Gtr: Gordon Carlton, Garry Shider
• Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
• Sax: Michael Brecker

"Icka Prick"

• Lead Vocals: George Clinton
• Bass: Lige Curry
• Lead Guitar: Michael Hampton
• Rhythm Guitar: Garry Shider
• Moog & Keyboards: David Lee Chong