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James Brown
James Brown, circa 1965
Background information
Birth name James Joseph Brown, Jr.
Also known as The Godfather of Soul
Born May 3, 1928
Barnwell, South Carolina, United States
Died December 25, 2006
Atlanta, Georgia, United States[1]
Genre(s) R&B, soul, funk
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, dancer, bandleader, record producer
Instrument(s) Singing, organ/piano/keyboard, drums, guitar
Years active 1956=E2=80=932006
Label(s) King/Polydor
Associated
acts The Famous Flames, The JBs
James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3, 1928 =E2=80=93 December 25, 2006), commonly
referred to as "The Godfather of Soul", was an American entertainer
recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century
popular music.
As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer,
Brown was a seminal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and
blues into soul and funk. He left his mark on numerous other musical
genres, including rock, jazz, reggae, disco, dance and electronic
music, afrobeat, and hip hop music.
Brown began his professional music career in 1953 and skyrocketed to
fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his thrilling
live performances and a string of smash hits. In spite of various
personal problems and setbacks, he continued to score hits in every
decade through the 1980s. In the 1960s and 1970s Brown was a presence
in American political affairs, noted especially for his activism on
behalf of African Americans and the poor.
Brown was recognized by a plethora of (mostly self-bestowed) titles,
including Soul Brother Number One, Mr. Dynamite, the Hardest-Working
Man in Show Business, Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk, Mr.
Please Please Please, The Boss, and the best-known, the Godfather of
Soul. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and
unique rhythmic style.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1=2E1 Early life
1=2E2 Beginnings of the Famous Flames
1=2E3 "Papa gets a brand new bag"
1=2E4 The late 1960s: "Ain't It Funky Now"
1=2E5 The 1970s: The JB's
1=2E6 Into the late-1970s and 1980s
1=2E7 Later years and death
2 Musicianship
3 Personal life
4 Honors, awards and dedications
5 Discography
5=2E1 Top ten singles
5=2E2 Best albums
5=2E3 Chronological collections
6 Trivia
7 Pop culture references
8 Sample
9 References
10 External links
Biography
Early life
Brown was born in the small town of Barnwell in Depression-era South
Carolina as James Joseph Brown, Jr. As an adult, Brown would legally
change his name to remove the "Jr." designation.[2] Brown's family
eventually moved to nearby Augusta, Georgia. During his childhood,
Brown helped support his family by picking cotton in the nearby fields
and shining shoes downtown. In his spare time, Brown variously spent
time either practicing his skills in Augusta-area halls, or committing
petty crimes. At the age of sixteen, he was convicted of armed robbery
and sent to a juvenile detention center upstate in Toccoa from 1948.
While in prison, Brown later made the acquaintance of Bobby Byrd, whose
family helped Brown secure an early release after serving only three
years of his sentence, under the condition that he not return to
Augusta or Richmond County and that he would try to get a job. After
brief stints as a boxer and baseball pitcher (a career move ended by
leg injury) Brown turned his energy toward music.
Beginnings of the Famous Flames
Brown and Bobby Byrd's sister Sarah performed in a gospel group called
"The Gospel Starlighters" from 1955. Eventually, Brown joined Bobby
Byrd's group the Avons, and Byrd turned the group's sound towards
secular rhythm and blues. Now called The Famous Flames, Brown and
Byrd's band toured the Southern "chitlin' circuit", and eventually
signed a deal with the Cincinnati, Ohio-based King Records, presided
over by Syd Nathan.
The group's first recording and single, credited to "James Brown with
the Famous Flames", was "Please, Please, Please" (1956). It was a #5
R&B hit and a million-selling single. However, their subsequent records
failed to live up to the success of "Please, Please, Please". After
nine failed singles, King was ready to drop Brown and the Flames.
Nearly all of the group's releases were written or co-written by Brown,
who assumed primary control of the band from Byrd and eventually began
billing himself as a solo act with The Famous Flames as his backup.
Many of Brown's early recordings were fairly straightforward
gospel-inspired R&B compositions, heavily inspired by the work of
contemporary musicians such as Little Richard and Ray Charles. Yet the
songs were already marked by a rhythmic acuity and vocal attack that
would later become even more pronounced, contributing to the developing
style that would eventually be called "funk". Brown, in fact, called
Little Richard his idol, and credited Little Richard's
saxophone-studded mid-1950s road band The Upsetters as the first to put
the funk in the rock and roll beat. [3]
Little Richard continued to play a role in Brown's rise to the top. In
1957, when Little Richard bolted from pop music to become a preacher,
Brown not only honored his remaining tour dates, but also some members
of Little Richard's backup band become Fabulous Flames. A year later,
the group released "Try Me," which would become Brown's first No. 1
hit.[4]
Brown's arrangements and instrumentation, initially standardized, began
to give way to more improvisational and rhythm-heavy tracks such as
1961's #5 R&B hit "Night Train", arguably the first single to showcase
the beginnings of what today is considered the "James Brown sound".
Except for declamatory ad-libs by Brown, "Night Train" is completely
instrumental, featuring prominent horn charts and a fast, highly
accented rhythm track.
The landmark Live at the Apollo LP from 1962
"Papa gets a brand new bag"
While Brown's early singles were major hits in the southern United
States and regularly became R&B Top Ten hits, he and the Flames were
not nationally successful until his self-financed live show was
captured on the LP Live at the Apollo in 1962, released without the
consent of his label King Records.
Brown followed this success with a string of singles that, along with
the work of Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, essentially defined funk
music. 1964's "Out of Sight" was, even more than "Night Train" had
been, a harbinger of the new James Brown sound. Its arrangement was raw
and unornamented, the horns and the drums took center stage in the mix,
and Brown's vocals had taken on an even more intensely rhythmic feel.
However, Brown violated his contract with King again by recording "Out
of Sight" for Smash Records; the ensuing legal battle resulted in a one
year ban on the release of his vocal recordings.[5]
The mid-1960s was the period of Brown's greatest popular success. Two
of his signature tunes, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "I Got You (I
Feel Good)," both from 1965, were Brown's first Top 10 pop hits as well
as major #1 R&B hits, remaining the top-selling single in black venues
for over a month apiece. His national profile was further boosted that
year by appearances in the films Ski Party and the concert film The
T=2EA.M.I. Show, in which he upstaged The Rolling Stones. In his concert
repertoire and on record, Brown mingled his innovative rhythmic essays
with ballads such as "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (1965), and even
Broadway show tunes.
Brown continued to develop the new funk idiom. "Cold Sweat" (1967), a
song with only one chord change, was considered a departure even
compared to Brown's other recent innovations. Critics have since come
to see it as a high-water mark in the dance music of the 1960s; it is
sometimes called the first "true" funk recording.
Brown would often make creative adjustments to his songs for greater
appeal. He sped up the released version of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"
to make it even more intense and commercial. He also began spinning off
new compositions from the grooves of earlier ones by continual revision
of their arrangements. For example, the hit "There Was a Time" emerged
out of the chord progression and rhythm arrangements of the 1967 song
"Let Yourself Go."[6]
The 1970 LP Soul on Top
The late 1960s: "Ain't It Funky Now"
Brown employed musicians and arrangers who had come up through the jazz
tradition. He was noted for his ability as a bandleader and songwriter
to blend the simplicity and drive of R&B with the rhythmic complexity
and precision of jazz. Trumpeter Lewis Hamlin and
saxophonist/keyboardist Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (the successor to
previous bandleader Nat Jones) led the band; guitarist Jimmy Nolen
provided percussive, deceptively simple riffs for each song; Maceo
Parker's prominent saxophone solos provided a focal point for many
performances. Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer
and sideman Bobby Byrd; drummers John "Jabo" Starks, Clyde
Stubblefield, and Melvin Parker (Maceo's brother); saxophonist St.
Clair Pinckney; trombonist Fred Wesley; guitarist Alphonso "Country"
Kellum; and bassist Bernard Odum.
As the 1960s came to a close, Brown refined his funk style even further
with "I Got the Feelin'" and "Licking Stick-Licking Stick" (both
recorded in 1968), and "Funky Drummer" (recorded in 1969). By this time
Brown's "singing" increasingly took the form of a kind of rhythmic
declamation that only intermittently featured traces of pitch or
melody. His vocals, not quite sung but not quite spoken, would be a
major influence on the technique of rapping, which would come to
maturity along with hip hop music in the coming decades. Supporting his
vocals were instrumental arrangements that featured a more refined and
developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style. The horn section,
guitars, bass, and drums all meshed together in strong rhythms based
around various repeating riffs, usually with at least one musical
"break".
Brown's recordings influenced musicians across the industry, most
notably Sly and his Family Stone, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd
Street Rhythm Band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and soul shouters like
Edwin Starr, Temptations David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards, and a
then-prepubescent Michael Jackson, who took Brown's shouts and dancing
into the pop mainstream as the lead singer of Motown's The Jackson 5.
Those same tracks would later be resurrected by countless hip-hop
musicians from the 1970s on; in fact, James Brown remains the world's
most sampled recording artist, and "Funky Drummer" is itself the most
sampled individual piece of music.[citation needed]
The content of Brown's songs was now developing along with their
delivery. Socio-political commentary on the black person's position in
society and lyrics praising motivation and ambition filled songs like
"Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968) and "I Don't Want Nobody
to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I'll Get It Myself)" (1970).
However, while this change gained him an even greater position in the
black community, it lost him much of his white audience who could no
longer relate to his lyrics.
The cover to the 1970 live Sex Machine LP
The 1970s: The JB's
By 1970, most of the members of James Brown's classic 1960s band had
quit his act for other opportunities. He and Bobby Byrd employed a new
band that included future funk greats such as bassist Bootsy Collins,
Collins' guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins, and
trombonist/musical director Fred Wesley. This new backing band was
dubbed "The JB's", and made their debut on Brown's 1970 single "(Get Up
I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine". Although it would go through several
lineup changes (the first in 1971), The JB's remain Brown's most
familiar backing band.
As Brown's musical empire grew (he bought radio stations in the late
1960s, including Augusta's WRDW, where he had shined shoes as a boy),
his desire for financial and artistic independence grew as well. In
1971, he began recording for Polydor Records; among his first Polydor
releases was the #1 R&B hit "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To
Get What She Wants)". Many of his sidemen and supporting players, such
as Fred Wesley & the JB's, Bobby Byrd, Lyn Collins, Myra Barnes, and
Hank Ballard, released records on Brown's subsidiary label, People,
which was created as part of Brown's Polydor contract. These recordings
are as much a part of Brown's legacy as those released under his own
name, and most are noted examples of what might be termed James Brown's
"house" style. The early 1970s marked the first real awareness, outside
the African-American community, of Brown's achievements. Miles Davis
and other jazz musicians began to cite Brown as a major influence on
their styles, and Brown provided the score for the 1973 blaxploitation
film Black Caesar.
In 1974, Brown performed in Zaire as part of the build up to the The
Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
The 1974 LP The PaybackHis 1970s Polydor recordings were a summation of
all the innovation of the last twenty years, and while some critics
maintain that he declined artistically during this period, compositions
like "The Payback" (1973); "Papa Don't Take No Mess" and "Stoned to the
Bone" (1974); "Funky President (People It's Bad)" (1975); and "Get Up
Offa That Thing" (1976) are still considered among his best.
Into the late-1970s and 1980s
By the mid-1970s, Brown's star-status was on the wane, and key
musicians such as Bootsy Collins had begun to depart to form their own
groups. The disco movement, which Brown anticipated, and some say
originated, found relatively little room for Brown; his 1976 albums Get
Up Offa That Thing and Bodyheat were his first flirtations with
"disco-fied" rhythms incorporated into his funky repertoire. While
1977's Mutha's Nature and 1978's Jam 1980's generated no charted hits,
1979's The Original Disco Man LP is a notable late addition to his
oeuvre. It contained the song "It's Too Funky in Here," which was his
last top R&B hit of the decade.
Brown experienced something of a resurgence in the 1980s, effectively
crossing over to a broader, more mainstream audience. He made cameo
appearances in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit,
and Rocky IV, as well as being a guest star in the Miami Vice episode
"Missing Hours" in 1988. He also released Gravity, a modestly popular
crossover album, and the hit 1985 single "Living in America".
Acknowledging his influence on modern hip-hop and R&B music, Brown
collaborated with hip-hop artist Afrika Bambaataa on the single
"Unity", and worked with the group Full Force on a #5 R&B hit single,
1988's "Static," from the hip-hop influenced album I'm Real. The drum
break to his 1969 song "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" became so popular
at hip hop dance parties (especially for breakdance) in the late 1970s
and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow calls the song
"the national anthem of hip hop."[7]
Later years and death
In spite of his return to the limelight, by the late 1980s, Brown met
with a series of legal and financial setbacks. In 1988, he was arrested
following a high-speed car chase down Interstate 20 in Augusta. He was
imprisoned for threatening pedestrians with firearms and abuse of PCP,
as well as for the repercussions of his flight. Although he was
sentenced to six years in prison, he was eventually released in 1991
after having only served three. A new album called Love Overdue was
released that same year, with the new single "Move On".
During the 1990s and 2000s, Brown was repeatedly arrested for drug
possession and domestic abuse. However, he continued to perform
regularly and even record, and made appearances in television shows and
films such as Blues Brothers 2000. The 1991 four-CD box set Star Time
spanned his four-decade career. Nearly all his earlier LPs were
re-released on CD, often with additional tracks and commentary by
experts on Brown's music. In 1993, James Brown released a new album
called Universal James, which spawned the singles "Can't Get Any
Harder", "How Long" and "Georgia-Lina". In 1995, the live album Live At
The Apollo 1995 was released, featuring a new track recorded in the
studio called "Respect Me". It was released as a single that same year.
A megamix called "Hooked on Brown" was released as a single in 1996.
And in 1998, James Brown released a new studio album, I'm Back,
featuring the single "Funk On Ah Roll". In 2002, James Brown released
the album The Next Step, which features the single "Killing is Out,
School is In." In 2003 he participated in the PBS American Masters
television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, directed by Jeremy
Marre.
In December 2004 Brown was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was
successfully treated with surgery. He appeared at Edinburgh 50,000 -
The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert, on July 6, 2005, where he did
a duet with British pop star Will Young on "Papa's Got A Brand New
Bag." He also did a duet with another British pop star, Joss Stone, a
week earlier on the UK chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
Before his death, he was scheduled to perform a duet with singer Annie
Lennox on the song "Vengeance" on her new album Venus, scheduled for
release in early 2007.
In 2006, Brown continued his "Seven Decades Of Funk World Tour", to be
his last, performing all over the world. His latest shows were still
greeted with positive reviews. His last Irish performance was at the
Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006.
Brown was admitted to the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta,
Georgia on December 24, 2006 after a dentist visit where he was found
to have severe pneumonia.[8] Brown died the next day on December 25,
2006, around 1:45 a.m. (06:45 UTC) at age 73. [9] The cause of death
was heart failure, according to his agent. [1] James was quoted saying
"I'm going away tonight" sometime before he passed away. He then took
three long, quiet breaths, and closed his eyes.[1]
Musicianship
Despite his prowess as a musical performer, Brown never learned to read
music. Like Duke Ellington, he developed his repertoire in close
association with the members of his band, who were predominantly
jazz-trained musicians with a working knowledge of music theory. As his
former bandleader Fred Wesley recalled,
it would have been impossible for James Brown to put his show together
without the assistance of someone like Pee Wee [Ellis], who understood
chord changes, time signatures, scales, notes, and basic music theory.
Simple things like knowing the key would be a big problem for James . .
.. The whole James Brown Show depended on having someone with musical
knowledge remember the show, the individual parts, and the individual
songs, then relay these verbally or in print to the other musicians.
Brown could not do it himself. He spoke in grunts, groans, and
la-di-das, and he needed musicians to translate that language into
music and actual songs in order to create an actual show.[10]
Personal life
Brown was married four times. He and his last wife, Tommie Raye Hynie
(also cited as Tomi Rae Hynie), were married in 2002, but the marriage
was later voided, as she had not yet divorced her first husband. They
had one child together, but according to Brown's attorney, the two
never remarried. Brown also had two children by his first wife, Velma
Warren, and three more by his second, Deidre Jenkins. His eldest son
Teddy died in a car crash in 1973.
Brown's personal life was marked by several brushes with the law. At
the age of 16, was arrested for theft and served 3 years in prison.
Adrienne Rodriegues, his third wife, had him arrested four times on
charges of assault between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Brown also
served 2 years of a 6 year jail sentence after he led police on a car
chase across the Georgia-South Carolina border in 1988. He was
convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and assaulting a police
officer, along with various drug-related and driving offenses.
At the end of his life James Brown lived in a riverfront home in Beech
Island, South Carolina, directly across the Savannah River from
Augusta, Georgia.
Honors, awards and dedications
A larger-than-life-sized bronze statue stands on the 800 block of Broad
Street in Augusta, Georgia.On November 11, 1993, Augusta mayor Charles
DeVaney held a ceremony during which Augusta's 9th Street was renamed
"James Brown Boulevard" in the entertainer's honor. On May 6, 2005, as
a seventy-second birthday present for Brown, the City of Augusta
unveiled a seven-foot bronze statue of the singer. The statue was to
have been dedicated a year earlier, but the ceremony was put on hold
because of a domestic abuse charge Brown was facing at the time. He
later forfeited bond on the domestic abuse charge.
James Brown received several prestigious music industry awards and
honors. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its
inaugural induction dinner in New York on January 23, 1986. On February
25, 1992 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th annual
Grammy Awards. Exactly a year later, he received a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 4th annual Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards. On
November 14, 2006, Brown was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame. He
was one of several inductees that performed at the ceremony.
Brown was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors in 2003.
On August 22, 2006, the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority
voted to rename the city's civic center the James Brown Arena.
Discography
For a full listing of albums and singles, see James Brown discography.
Top ten singles
These singles reached the top ten on either the Billboard Hot 100 or
the Billboard Top R&B Singles charts.
1956: "Please, Please, Please" (R&B #5)
1959: "Try Me" (R&B #1, U.S. #48)
1960: "Think" (R&B #7, U.S. #33)
1961: "Baby, You're Right" (R&B #2, U.S. #49)
1961: "Bewildered" (R&B #8, U.S. #40)
1961: "I Don't Mind" (R&B #4, U.S. #47)
1962: "Lost Someone" (R&B #2, U.S. #48)
1962: "Night Train" (R&B #5, U.S. #35)
1963: "Prisoner of Love" (R&B #6, U.S. #18)
1965: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" - Part I (R&B #1, U.S. #8)
1965: "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (R&B #1, U.S. #3)
1966: "Ain't That a Groove" Pts. 1 & 2 (R&B #6, U.S. #42)
1966: "Don't Be A Drop-Out" (R&B #4, U.S. #50)
1966: "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (R&B #1, U.S. #8)
1966: "Sweet Little Baby Boy" - Part 1 (U.S. #8)
1967: "Cold Sweat" - Part 1 (R&B #1, U.S. #7)
1967: "Let Yourself Go" (R&B #5, U.S. #46)
1968: "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)" (R&B #4, U.S. #28)
1968: "I Got The Feelin'" (R&B #1, U.S. #6)
1968: "Licking Stick - Licking Stick" - Part 1 (R&B #2, U.S. #14)
1968: "Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" - Part 1 (R&B #1, U.S.
#10)
1968: "There Was A Time" (R&B #3, U.S. #36)
1969: "Ain't It Funky Now" (R&B #3, U.S. #24)
1969: "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" (R&B #1, U.S. #15)
1969: "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll
Get It Myself)" (R&B #3, U.S. #20)
1969: "Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn" - Part One (R&B #2, U.S.
#21)
1969: "Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me)" Part 1(R&B #1,
U=2ES. #11)
1970: "Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like A) Sex Machine" (Part 1)" (R&B
#2, U.S. #15)
1970: "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay" (U.S. #7)
1970: "Super Bad" - Part 1 & Part 2 (R&B #1, U.S. #13)
1971: "Escape-ism" - Part 1 (R&B #6, U.S. #35)
1971: "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" - Pt. 1 (R&B #4, U.S. #34)
1971: "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)"
=E2=80=93 Part 1 (R&B #1, U.S. #15)
1971: "I'm A Greedy Man" - Part I (R&B #7, U.S. #35)
1971: "Make It Funky" - Part 1 (R&B #1, U.S. #22)
1971: "Soul Power" - Pt. 1 (R&B #3, U.S. #29)
1972: "Get On The Good Foot" - Part 1 (R&B #1, U.S. #18)
1972: "King Heroin" (R&B #6, U.S. #40)
1972: "Talking Loud And Saying Nothing" - Part I (R&B #1, U.S. #27)
1973: "Down And Out In New York City" (R&B #13, U.S. #50)
1973: "I Got A Bag Of My Own" (R&B #3)
1973: "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" (R&B #6, U.S. #50)
1974: "Funky President" (People It's Bad)" (R&B #4, U.S. #44)
1974: "My Thang" (R&B #1, U.S. #29)
1974: "Papa Don't Take No Mess" - Part I (R&B #1, U.S. #31)
1974: "Stoned To The Bone" - Part 1 (R&B #4, U.S. #58)
1974: "The Payback" - Part I (R&B #1, U.S. #26)
1976: "Get Up Offa That Thing" (R&B #4, U.S. #45)
1985: "Living in America (R&B #10, U.S. #4)
1987: "How Do You Stop" (R&B #10)
1988: "I'm Real" (R&B #2)
1988: "Static, Pts. 1 & 2" (with Full Force) (R&B #5)
Best albums
Until the early 1970s, Brown was famous mostly for his roadshow and
singles rather than albums (his live LPs being a major exception). Many
of his early albums include tracks that were recorded in the studio and
later overdubbed with the sounds of a live audience in an attempt to
recreate the explosive excitement of the original Live at the Apollo.
Four James Brown albums, all but one of them compilations, appear on
Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time:
Live at the Apollo (1963)
In the Jungle Groove (1986)
Star Time (1991)
20 All-Time Greatest Hits! (1991)
The following albums, originally released as double LP records, feature
extensive playing by the legendary JB's. They have been a prolific
source of samples for later musical artists:
The Payback (1973)
Get on the Good Foot (1972)
Hell (1974)
The Live at the Apollo Vol. 2 double LP album, released in 1968, was
notably influential on then-contemporary musicians. It remains an
example of Mr. Brown's highly energetic live performances and audience
interaction, as well as documenting the metamorphosis of his music from
R&B and soul styles into hard funk.
Chronological collections
In addition to the career-spanning Star Time, Polydor released a series
of CD collections devoted to specific periods in Brown's long career,
similar to Columbia Records' Miles Davis boxed sets.
Roots of a Revolution (2 CD; covers 1956-1964)
Foundations of Funk: A Brand New Bag, 1964-1969 (2 CD)
Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang (1 CD)
Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975 (2 CD)
Dead on the Heavy Funk, 1975-1983(2 CD)
Two other collections anthologize Brown's instrumental recordings with
his 60s band and the JBs:
Soul Pride: The Instrumentals (1960-69) (2 CD)
Funky Good Time: The Anthology (2 CD; covers 1970-1976)
Trivia
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Brown holds the record for the artist who has charted the most singles
on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that
chart.[11]
Brown's 1976 single "Hot" (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)"
(R&B #31) borrowed the main riff from David Bowie's "Fame", not the
other way around as is often believed. The riff was provided to "Fame"
co-writers Lennon/Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar.
Brown had his natural eyebrows replaced with tattooed ones in 1991.
In 1991, there were three electronic dance music songs from the
Netherlands in which Brown was in the title: "James Brown Is Dead",
"James Brown is Still Alive" and "Who the ***** is James Brown?"
Brown appeared at the World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event
SuperBrawl X in 2000, dancing alongside wrestler Ernest "The Cat"
Miller.
Brown was featured in Tony Scott's 2001 short film, Beat the Devil,
alongside Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, Danny Trejo and Marilyn Manson.
Brown made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo,
in which Chan is required to finish Brown's act after Brown is
indisposed.
Pop culture references
Brown's inspiration was habitually credited in the liner notes of hip
hop albums during the late 1980s. His name is also mentioned in several
hit rock and R&B songs, including Arthur Conley's 1967 "Sweet Soul
Music," Tom Tom Club's 1982 "Genius of Love," and Prince's 1991 "Gett
Off."
One of Eddie Murphy's well-known characters during his tenure on
Saturday Night Live was his caricature of Brown during the James Brown
Hot Tub Party sketch. In the sketch, Murphy as Brown dances while
wearing a towel in typical James Brown fashion in front of a backing
band while singing about his attempt to get into a scalding hot tub of
water. Murphy would also reference Brown in his standup comedy film
Delirious, mocking Brown's energy and style of conversing with the band
during a song. Brown would get revenge, however; his song "Living in
America" includes the line "Eddie Murphy, eat your heart out!",
ostensibly in retaliation to Murphy's jokes.
In the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire, Daniel Hillard, played by Robin
Williams, is joking around in a movie studio with some toy dinosaurs,
not realizing that he is being watched by the studio executive, who is
impressed with his humor and ingenuity. One of the jokes he makes is
with a brontosaurus, saying "Let's welcome Mr. James Browntasaurus,"
and continuing on to sing a parody of I Got You (I Feel Good), called
"I Eat Wood." Because of this scene, Hillard is offered a position and
the studio executive sets up a meeting with him to discuss it.
James Brown Jr. was featured as a recurring character on Mad TV, played
by Aries Spears. The portrayal was an exaggerated parody of Brown's
energetic performing style.
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References
^ a b c James Brown, the 'Godfather of Soul,' dies at 78
^ Brown, James (2005). I Feel Good : A Memoir of a Life of Soul. NAL
Hardcover. 045-121393-9.
^ "Little Richard". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved from
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=3D179 on October 28, 2006.
^ http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=3D56
^ James Brown Biography. allmusic.
^ Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm & Blues (New York: Pantheon Books,
1988), 101.
^ [1]
^ Agent: James Brown hospitalized with pneumonia CNN. December 24,
2006.
^ http://www.depothillmedia.com/news.php?item.29.4 "Godfather Of Soul"
dies at 73 - Depot Hill Media. December 25, 2006.
^ Fred Wesley Jr., Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman (Durham:
Duke University Press, 2002), 97.
^ Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record
Research, 2000), 900.
External links
James Brown - Godfather of Soul, Brown's official site.
The James Brown Burn Team
James Brown discography
BBC Obituary: James Brown
Burnett, Bugs. "Audience With the Godfather" -- Interview. The Hour,
December 21, 2006.
Lethem, Jonathan. "Being James Brown" -- Interview. Rolling Stone, June
12, 2006. with audio.
James Brown at the Internet Movie Database
James Brown at the All Music Guide
James Brown at the Open Directory Project
Photo archive of James Brown by rock photographer Chris Walter
"I feel good" at YouTube
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NAME Brown, James Joseph, Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Singer, songwriter, record producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnwell, South Carolina, United States
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2006
PLACE OF DEATH Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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