The Humpty Dance
~ Recording by Digital Underground
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 2.7 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Max Headroom präsentiert: Dance Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Polyphon | 840 809-2 |
| 1.7 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | Dance Explosion | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.8 | The Humpty Dance | 6:35 | Digital Underground | Pump Up the Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyTel | 845096-2 |
| 1.2 | The Humpty Dance | 6:37 | Digital Underground | Rap ’n’ House (Rap Traxx 4) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyTel | 845 093-4 |
| 1.2 | The Humpty Dance | 6:37 | Digital Underground | Rap ’n’ House (Rap Traxx 4) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyTel | 845 093-2 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:30 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TB 1026, TBLP 1026 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| BCM Records, Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | BCM 50377 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| Attic (Canadian label), Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | ACD 1277 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets (Columbia House club edition) | Digital Underground | Album |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TBCD 1026 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| TNT Recordings (US hip hop, Tommy Boy Music sublabel), Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TB-1026-2 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | ?:?? | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| Attic (Canadian label), Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | CAT 1277 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TBCD 1026 |
| 2.3 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Tanz House, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BCM Records | BCM 52390 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:30 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| Big Life (UK indie/dance), Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | BLR LP 16 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:30 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets / Same Song | Digital Underground | EP + Compilation |
| Big Life (UK indie/dance) | BLR 16 CD |
| 3.3 | The Humpty Dance | 6:30 | Digital Underground | Rap Attack | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Disky | HR 860782 |
| 1.7 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Hip Hop With R&B Flava | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music Special Markets | |
| 1.11 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | Tommy Boy Greatest Beats: The First Fifteen Years 1981-1996, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TBCD 1165 |
| 1.12 | The Humpty Dance (LP version) | 6:30 | Digital Underground | Tommy Boy Greatest Beats: The First Fifteen Years 1981-1996 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TBCD 1121 |
| 2.19 | The Humpty Dance (album version) | 6:29 | Digital Underground | Black Summer Party | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Polystar (Germany) | 541 481-2 |
| 1.6 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Hip Hop Assassins | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Beechwood Music | DBASCD02 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | No Nose Job: The Legend of Digital Underground | Digital Underground | Album + Compilation |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TBCD 1470 |
| 2.6 | The Humpty Dance | 6:29 | Digital Underground | Rappers Delight: Back in the Day | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited) | |
| 1.2 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Booty Shakin’ Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Compass Productions (budget compilations), Universal Music Special Markets | B0002623-02 |
| 1.10 | The Humpty Dance | 6:29 | Digital Underground | No.1 Rap Hits Volume 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| X-Media | XMCD16 |
| 2.7 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | The History of Hip Hop 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”) | 981 456-6 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Hi‐Five: Digital Underground | Digital Underground | EP + Compilation |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | |
| 1.11 | The Humpty Dance | 6:28 | Digital Underground | Tommy Boy Presents: Hip Hop Essentials, Volume 3 (1979-1991) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | 1636 |
| 1.4 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Playwutchyalike: The Best of Digital Underground | Digital Underground | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.12 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Booty Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 2.11 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | Vintage Grooves - Old School Hip-Hop, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Seamless Recordings | SEAMVGCD001 |
| 1.230 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records - The First Fifty Years | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 8-431548 |
| 1.14 | The Humpty Dance | 6:27 | Digital Underground | Rapper’s Delight | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint) | EMI 9580812 |
| 1.10 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | Dope: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| i am OTHER | |
| 2.17 | The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground | Hip-Hop History: The Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 0190295908683 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album |
| Tommy Boy Music (folded 2002) | |
| 1.4 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Free Guy: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Compilation + Soundtrack |
| Hollywood Records (a label of Disney Music Group) | D003715225 |
| 1.4 | Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Free Guy: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Compilation + Soundtrack |
| Hollywood Records (a label of Disney Music Group) | D003714901 |
| 5.7 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap (explicit) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Smithsonian Folkways (imprint of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) | SFW CD 40230 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | The Humpty Dance | Digital Underground | Single |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) | Digital Underground | Album |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TB55706 |
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:33 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets (35th anniversary) | Digital Underground | Album |
| Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo) | TB-5570-2 |
| 2.9 | The Humpty Dance | 6:29 | Digital Underground | Hip Hop Don't Stop 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:28 | Digital Underground | Old School Rap Party | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:32 | Digital Underground | Sex Packets | Digital Underground | Album | Tommy Boy Music (folded 2002) | ||
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.1 | The Humpty Dance | 6:26 | Digital Underground | The Blak’s Lair Family Presents Urbantopia | Various Artists | Album + Compilation + Mixtape/Street |
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Relationships
| recording engineer and mixer: | Steve Counter |
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| producer: | The Underground (Digital Underground, hip hop) |
| vocals: | Fuze (US hip-hop DJ/producer David Elliot) Humpty Hump Money B (of Digital Underground) Shock‐G (of Digital Underground) |
| recorded at and mixed at: | Starlight Sound (San Francisco) in Richmond, California, United States |
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| DJ-mixes: | Section 7: Get Down / Humpty Dance / Dope On Plastic / Beats and Pieces (part of “Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions, Volume One” DJ‐mix) by LL Cool J / Digital Underground (hip hop) / Uptown (Brooklyn rapper Raie Dacosta) / Coldcut (Matt Black & Jonathan More) |
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| has remixes: | The Humpty Dance (Hump mix) The Humpty Dance (U.K. instrumental mix) The Humpty Dance (U.K. remix) |
| sampled by: | Crew Deep (part of “Rawkus Records Presents Soundbombing III” DJ-mix) by Skillz (US rapper, fka Mad Skillz) feat. Missy Elliott (American rapper, singer, dancer & record producer) & Kandi (US R&B singer-songwriter, actress & record producer Kandi Burruss) If U Can’t Dance by Spice Girls What You’re Used To by Craig G (QB rapper of Juice Crew) |
| music videos: | The Humpty Dance |
| part of: | A.Side: 10 Songs That Have Their Own Dance Moves (number: 8) (order: 8) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 241) (order: 241) |
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| purchase for download: | https://music.apple.com/us/song/1634644372 [info] |
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| stream for free: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzCh70vadrY [info] (from 2022-09-22 to present) |
| streaming page: | https://music.apple.com/us/song/1634644372 [info] https://tidal.com/track/237917900 [info] |
| recording of: | The Humpty Dance |
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Related works
The Humpty Dance
| writer: | George Clinton (US funk musician) Bootsy Collins (US funk musician & songwriter) Humpty Hump Junie Morrison |
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| referred to in medleys: | Polka Your Eyes Out (order: 10) |
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