"Brick House" is a song from

the Commodores Commodores are an American funk and Soul music, soul band, which were at their peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed wit ...

' 1977 self-titled album (released as ''Zoom'' in the UK). The single peaked at number 5 in the U.S. and number 32 in the

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Background

Lionel Richie stated that the song's title is a play on the expression "built like a brick shithouse," referring to a strongly built woman.

Charts

References

External links

List of cover versions of "Brick House"
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