Pull up to the Bumper - wikipedia Pull up to the Bumper `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' Single by Grace Jones from the album Nightclubbing B - side `` Feel Up '' `` Breakdown '' `` La Vie en rose '' `` Nipple to the Bottle '' Released June 1981 Format 7 '' 12 '' CS CD Genre Dance Length 4 : 41 Label Island Songwriter ( s ) Kookoo Baya Grace Jones Dana Mano Producer ( s ) Chris Blackwell Alex Sadkin Grace Jones singles chronology `` I 've Seen That Face Before ( Libertango ) '' ( 1981 ) `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( 1981 ) `` Walking in the Rain '' ( 1981 ) `` I 've Seen That Face Before ( Libertango ) '' ( 1981 ) `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( 1981 ) `` Walking in the Rain '' ( 1981 ) Alternative cover 1985 re-release Music video `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' on YouTube `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' is a 1981 single by Jamaican singer Grace Jones. Contents 1 Background 2 Music video 3 Track listing 4 Chart performance 5 Later versions 6 References 7 External links Background `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' was co-written by Grace Jones herself, Kookoo Baya and Dana Manno. The song 's instrumental path was originally recorded in 1980 during the Warm Leatherette sessions, however, it did not make the album as Chris Blackwell found its R&B sound not fitting in the rest of the material. It was finally completed for the 1981 critically acclaimed album Nightclubbing and became its third single in June 1981. The song sparked some controversy for its suggestive lyrics, as they figuratively describe sexual intercourse, prompting some radio stations in the United States to refuse to broadcast it. Among the lines are `` Pull up to my bumper baby / In your long black limousine / Pull up to my bumper baby / Drive it in between '' and `` Grease it / Spray it / Let me lubricate it ''. However, in a 2008 interview with the Q magazine, Jones revealed that the meaning of the lyrics were not necessarily meant to be interpreted in a sexual context. Over the years, `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' has been remixed several times. The original 12 - inch single featured the unedited album master recording as an extended mix of 6m45s. There also appears to be an untitled long album version lasting 5m48s which can be found on the US Rebound Records / Polygram Records World of Dance : The 80 's compilation CD. An extended dub version lasting 7m17s also known as `` Remixed Version '' was included as the B - side on the 12 - inch release of Jones ' `` Walking in the Rain '' ; this version can be found on the Universal Music compilation CD 12 `` / 80s. The `` Walking in the Rain '' 7 '' single also had an alternate dub mix as the B - side, called `` Peanut Butter '' and credited to the Compass Point All Stars. The full mix of `` Peanut Butter '' lasting 7m02s as well as `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' 's `` Party Version '' lasting 5m01s can be found on the US Hip - O Records / Universal Music In Good Company CD by Sly & Robbie. In 1985 the track was again remixed and re-released to promote the Island Life compilation, and was released in two different 12 '' mixes, one an extended mix with additional keyboard overdubs and remix by Paul `` Groucho '' Smykle, which can be found on both the Rodeo Media 2011 Dance Classics - Pop Edition Vol. 4 2CD Compilation and the very rare EVA Records 1986 Now Dance compilation CD. The other, an eight - minute megamix entitled `` Musclemix '', which included excerpts from tracks like `` Warm Leatherette '', `` Walking in the Rain '', `` Use Me '', `` Love Is the Drug '' and `` Slave to the Rhythm '', remains unreleased on CD. Upon its release, the song spent seven weeks at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, as well as becoming a Top 5 single on the US R&B chart. The track has since come to be one of Jones ' signature tunes and her first transatlantic hit. Music critic and writer Glenn O'Brien called `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' `` Grace 's first car radio hit ''. The original 1981 release peaked at number 53 on the UK Singles Chart. When it was re-released in 1985, then with the 1977 recording of `` La Vie en rose '' as the B - side, it reached number 12 on the UK pop chart in early 1986. The song then finally charted in Ireland and Germany, and became the singer 's best - seller. The song was ranked at number 8 among the top ten `` Tracks of the Year '' for 1981 by NME. In 2011, The Guardian 's Richard Vine ranked the release of `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' as one of 50 key events in the history of dance music, proclaiming it `` one of those rare records that manages to replicate the sensation of actually being in a club. '' Music video The music video for `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' is a combination of live footage with Jones performing the song on her A One Man Show merged and edited alongside excerpts from Godfrey Reggio 's 1982 experimental documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. The video uses the edited studio version of the song and its opening section includes excerpts from the song `` Nightclubbing ''. Another music video for the song was produced, also using the same live footage, cut and re-edited, but this time retaining the original concert soundtrack. The video ends with Jones jumping from the stage into the audience. Track listing 7 '' single ( 1981 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' -- 3 : 40 B. `` Feel Up '' -- 4 : 02 7 '' single ( US, 1981 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' -- 3 : 40 B. `` Breakdown '' -- 3 : 00 12 '' single ( 1981 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( long version ) -- 5 : 45 B. `` Feel Up '' ( Long Version ) -- 6 : 14 12 '' promotional single ( US, 1981 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( album version ) -- 4 : 30 B. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( party version ) -- 5 : 45 7 '' single ( 1985 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' -- 3 : 40 B. `` La Vie en rose '' -- 3 : 35 12 '' single ( 1985 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( Remix ) -- 6 : 24 B1. `` La Vie en rose '' -- 7 : 24 B2. `` Nipple to the Bottle '' -- 5 : 55 12 '' single ( UK, 1985 ) A. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' -- 4 : 40 B. `` Nipple to the Bottle '' -- 6 : 57 12 '' single ( UK, 1986 ) A. `` Grace Jones Musclemix '' -- 9 : 12 B1. `` La Vie en rose '' -- 7 : 24 B2. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( Remix ) -- 6 : 24 12 '' single ( Canada, 1986 ) A. `` Grace Jones Musclemix '' -- 9 : 12 B1. `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( Remix ) -- 6 : 29 B2. `` Nipple to the Bottle '' -- 5 : 55 Cassette single ( 1986 ) `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' ( Remix ) -- 6 : 29 `` Nipple to the Bottle '' -- 5 : 55 `` La Vie en rose '' -- 7 : 24 `` Peanut Butter '' -- 5 : 10 Chart performance Chart Peak position Australia ( Kent Music Report ) 67 Belgium 14 Germany 26 Ireland 10 Netherlands 16 New Zealand 13 United Kingdom 12 Spain 37 United States ( Hot Dance Club Songs ) United States ( R&B Singles ) 5 Later versions `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' was recorded by a Jamaican reggae singer Patra in 1995 from her second album Scent of Attraction. It reached number 60 on the US Hot 100, number 21 on the R&B chart, and # 15 on the dance chart. It also reached number 78 in Australia, number 12 in New Zealand, and number 50 in the UK. Coolio sampled the song on his 1997 single `` Ooh La La '', from the album My Soul. Another version was released by an Australian R&B singer Deni Hines, which featured in 2000 film The Wog Boy. It reached number 36 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart in February 2000. Also in 2000, short lived British band Made in London recorded `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' as a B - side for their only charting single `` Dirty Water ''. Danish artist Funkstar De Luxe remixed the song with Jones ' original vocals, and released it as a single in late 2000, with an accompanying music video. The song reached number four on the US Billboard dance chart and number 60 on the UK pop chart. Bands Gossip and LCD Soundsystem performed the song together at the Coachella festival in 2010. References Jump up ^ `` Pull Up to the Bumper by Grace Jones Songfacts ''. www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 2012 - 02 - 02. Jump up ^ `` Sex : part four of 1000 songs everyone must hear ''. www.guardian.co.uk. 2009 - 03 - 17. Retrieved 2012 - 02 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Grace Jones laughs off ' Bumper ' sex myth ''. Q Magazine. 2008 - 12 - 18. Archived from the original on 2011 - 08 - 18. Retrieved 2012 - 02 - 01. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Hot Dance / Disco 1974 - 2003. Record Research Inc. Jump up ^ Album liner notes by Glenn O'Brien for Island Life CD booklet, page 6. ^ Jump up to : `` Grace Jones - Full Official Chart History ''. Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 January 2016. Jump up ^ `` 1986 Flashback : Grace Jones Pull Up to the Bumper ''. www.overgroundonline.com. Retrieved 2012 - 02 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Albums and Tracks of the Year ''. NME. 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2018. 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Retrieved 2012 - 09 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Chartverfolgung / JONES, GRACE / Single '' ( in German ). www.musicline.de. Retrieved 2009 - 11 - 10. Jump up ^ `` Search the charts ''. www.irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2009 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Discografie Grace Jones '' ( in Dutch ). www.dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2009 - 10 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Discography Grace Jones ''. charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2009 - 11 - 10. Jump up ^ Fernando Salaverri ( September 2005 ). Sólo éxitos : año a año, 1959 -- 2002 ( 1st ed. ). Spain : Fundación Autor - SGAE. ISBN 84 - 8048 - 639 - 2. ^ Jump up to : `` Grace Jones ''. www.allmusic.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 2009 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Billboard > Artists / Patra > Chart History > The Hot 100 ''. Billboard. Retrieved 2017 - 07 - 12. Jump up ^ `` Billboard > Artists / Patra > Chart History > Hot R&B / Hip - Hop Songs ''. Billboard. Retrieved 2017 - 07 - 12. 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External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Grace Jones Studio albums Portfolio ( 1977 ) Fame ( 1978 ) Muse ( 1979 ) Warm Leatherette ( 1980 ) Nightclubbing ( 1981 ) Living My Life ( 1982 ) Slave to the Rhythm ( 1985 ) Inside Story ( 1986 ) Bulletproof Heart ( 1989 ) Hurricane ( 2008 ) Compilations Island Life ( 1985 ) The Ultimate ( 1993 ) Private Life : The Compass Point Sessions ( 1998 ) 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection : The Best of Grace Jones ( 2003 ) The Universal Masters Collection ( 2003 ) The Collection ( 2004 ) The Grace Jones Story ( 2006 ) The Ultimate Collection ( 2006 ) Disco ( 2015 ) Singles `` I Need a Man '' `` Sorry '' `` La Vie en rose '' `` Do or Die '' `` On Your Knees '' `` A Rolling Stone '' `` Love Is the Drug '' `` Private Life '' `` The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game '' `` Breakdown '' `` Demolition Man '' `` I 've Seen That Face Before ( Libertango ) '' `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' `` Walking in the Rain '' `` Nipple to the Bottle '' `` The Apple Stretching '' `` My Jamaican Guy '' `` Cry Now, Laugh Later '' `` Living My Life '' `` Slave to the Rhythm '' `` Jones the Rhythm '' `` I 'm Not Perfect ( But I 'm Perfect for You ) '' `` Party Girl '' `` Crush '' `` Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician '' `` Love on Top of Love '' `` Amado Mio '' `` 7 Day Weekend '' `` Evilmainya '' `` Sex Drive '' `` Love Bites '' `` Hurricane ( Cradle to the Grave ) '' `` Corporate Cannibal '' `` Williams ' Blood '' `` Love You to Life '' Related Discography A One Man Show albums songs Deni Hines Studio albums Imagination ( 1996 ) Water for Chocolate ( 2006 ) The Other Woman ( 2007 ) The Soul Sessions ( 2014 ) Remix and compilation albums Remix Your Imagination ( 1997 ) A Delicious Collection / The Definitive Collection ( 2002 ) / ( 2004 ) Singles `` It 's Alright '' `` Imagination '' `` I Like the Way '' `` I 'm Not in Love '' `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' `` Son of a Preacher Man '' `` I Only Have Eyes for You '' `` Takin ' It to the Streets '' `` Love Is in Control ( Finger on the Trigger ) '' Featured singles `` Ai n't No Sunshine '' `` That Word ( L.O.V.E. ) '' `` It 's Not Over `` Stomp ! 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Question: who sang pull up to the bumper baby
Answer: Grace Jones