I’d Rather Be With You

~ Recording by Bootsy Collins

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.4I’d Rather Be With You5:03Bootsy’s Rubber BandStretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber BandBootsy’s Rubber BandAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)BS 2920
1.2I'd Rather Be With You5:03Bootsy’s Rubber BandBody Slam!Bootsy’s Rubber BandSingle
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)0-29919, 9 29919-0
1.4I’d Rather Be With You5:00Bootsy’s Rubber BandStretchin’ Out In Bootsy's Rubber BandBootsy’s Rubber BandAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)WPCP-3678
1.5I'd Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy’s Rubber BandBack in the Day: The Best of BootsyBootsy CollinsAlbum + Compilation
  • XE1994-08-09
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)7599 26581-2
1.5I'd Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy’s Rubber BandBack in the Day: The Best of BootsyBootsy CollinsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1994-08-09
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 26581-2
1.5I’d Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy’s Rubber BandBack In The Day: The Best Of Bootsy (BMG Direct Edition)Bootsy CollinsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across), BMG Direct (BMG’s direct marketing company/club editions)2-26581, 9 26581-2, D 105842
1.8I'd Rather Be With You4:57Bootsy’s Rubber BandStreet Jams: Back 2 the Old SkoolVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1996-02-16
Rhino (reissue label)R2 72487, R2 72488, R2 72489
2.5I'd Rather Be With You4:57Bootsy CollinsBlaxploitationVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Global TelevisionRADCD43
1.8I'd Rather Be With You4:57Bootsy’s Rubber BandStreet Jams: Back 2 the Old Skool, Part OneVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)R2 72487
1.4I’d Rather Be With You5:00Bootsy’s Rubber BandStretchin’ Out In Bootsy's Rubber BandBootsy’s Rubber BandAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)7599-26334-2
2.3I'd Rather Be With You4:57Bootsy CollinsThe Best of BlaxploitationVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Global TelevisionRADCD109
1.18I'd Rather Be With You4:56Bootsy CollinsFunkology: One Nation Under a Groove!Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2001-04-30
Warner Strategic Marketing United KingdomWSMCD033
1.3I’d Rather Be With You5:00Bootsy’s Rubber BandGlory B Da' Funk's on Me!: The Bootsy Collins AnthologyBootsy CollinsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2001-06-05
Rhino (reissue label), Warner ArchivesR2 74276
1.7I'd Rather Be With You4:56Bootsy CollinsBaby Boy: Music From the Motion PictureVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • US2001-06-19
Universal Records (UMG subsidiary, “RECORDS” must be a part of the logo; read annotation)440 014 276-2
2.6I’d Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy CollinsHarlem SessionsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-02-11
Sessions (sublabel of Union Square Music)SESHDCD203
1.4I’d Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy CollinsStretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber BandBootsy CollinsAlbum
  • XW2007-06-12
Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)
1.4I’d Rather Be With You5:00Bootsy’s Rubber BandStretchin’ Out In Bootsy's Rubber BandBootsy’s Rubber BandAlbum
  • US2007-10-16
Collectors’ Choice MusicCCM-845
22.6I’d Rather Be With You4:55Bootsy CollinsNova 1956-1980 : les racines de NovaVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2007-11-27
Nova Records (French reissue production label, by Radio Nova)3128692
1.4I’d Rather Be With You5:00Bootsy’s Rubber BandOriginal Album SeriesBootsy’s Rubber BandAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)8122798333
3.10I’d Rather Be With You4:57Bootsy CollinsThe Music of Grand Theft Auto VVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
  • AU2013-09-24
  • US2013-09-24
Rockstar Games
1.10I’d Rather Be With You4:57Bootsy CollinsThe Music of Grand Theft Auto V, Volume 3: The SoundtrackVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
  • XW2013-09-24
Rockstar Games
3.10I’d Rather Be With You4:59Bootsy CollinsThe Music of Grand Theft Auto V (limited edition CD collection)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation + Soundtrack
  • US2014-12-09
Mass Appeal (Nas's label), Rockstar GamesMSAP0014
1.45I'd Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy Collins50 Greatest SoulVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2021-03-05
X5 Music Group
4.12I’d Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy CollinsGreatest Ever Decade: 70sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label), Union Square MusicGTST4CDW16
Promotion
1.13I'd Rather Be With You4:58Bootsy’s Rubber BandClassic Funk Songwriter Spotlight SeriesBootsy CollinsAlbum + Compilation
Universal Music Publishing GroupUMPG201
(unknown)
1.6I'd Rather Be With You4:55Bootsy CollinsSnoop ClassicsVarious ArtistsCompilation
NocturneTN004

Relationships

recording engineer:Jim Vitti
producer:George Clinton (US funk musician)
William Collins (US funk musician & songwriter)
horn arranger:Bootsy Collins (US funk musician & songwriter)
Fred Wesley
arranger:Bootsy (US funk musician & songwriter)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Warner Bros. Records Inc. (not for release label use, company behind the “WB Records” imprint)
sampled by:Freak Like Me by Adina Howard
Ratha Be Ya Nigga (explicit) by 2Pac (US rapper) feat. Richie Rich (415 member & Death Row rapper Richard Serrell)
recording of:I'd Rather Be With You

Related works

I'd Rather Be With You

writer:George Clinton (US funk musician)
Bootsy Collins (US funk musician & songwriter)
Gary “Mudbone” Cooper
is the basis for:Freak Like Me