James Browns Best dance-floor filler?
Lawrence
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Lawrence
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i mean, you can talk about rare funk 45's for days, but if youre DJing a soul-funk night you can never go wrong with a JB number (specially if its from the '69-'75 era). thats like "funk 101" comfort food. "hot pants" (the 45 version)? "the payback"? just take your pick.
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Impossible to stay put when that riff come our from the speakers
Agreed. But I'll take the bait: Lyn Collins' "(Think) About It" seems to get a ton of a vocal feedback from the folks that know it immediately.
This one causes a frenzy every time.
"I feel so funky, I want to take off my watch and rings."
My personal favorites aside, I gotta ride for this one as the best all-purpose dancefloor rocker. Some of the deeper JB cuts will move the heads, but it's hard for anyone to front when "fellas I'm ready to get up and do my thang" comes on.
That song will make my grandma get up and dance. Grandma doesn't usually get up and dance.
I don't know what the hell JB was thinking rerecording that song for the Hot Pants album, because the single cannot be matched no kind of way...I ask you, who else can wring THAT much emotion out of one chord? Yeah, I know the song has a bridge, but it's that one-chord vamp that carries the load.
Exactamundo. Some of these other cuts will work great with somewhat headier crowds, but "Sex Machine" will work anytime, anywhere.
(Personally, I'm into "Talkin' Loud Sayin' Nothing" these days.)
i tend to try to get more JB albums than 45s, but hot pants? i got the purple AND white label versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=209VsqIbZRo
I have it on a Bethlehem 45, never seen it (or heard of it) on an LP.
WOW! thanks for reminding me of probably my favorite james brown record i have. i love this track. one of my few ebay purchases but i just had to have it!
does anybody know why it was released on bethlehem?i know it's King-related but its still confusing. im also kind of confused as to why this is credited to JB, as he doesnt sing or play on it, and didnt write it...
regardless i might go as far as to say this is one of my favorite JB tracks ever.
I'm not sure how to explain the crossover, but aren't there some Dee Felice Trio things on Bethlehem as well?
yeah, but its more confusing to me that out of nowhere james brown would release ONE 45 on bethlehem. is there a story behind this release anywhere? seems kinda mysterious overall....
The Dee Felice Trio was on Bethlehem. A jazz-lounge group on King's jazz-lounge subsidiary. Don't know how JB himself wound up there, although his first Bethlehem single (there were two JB/Bethlehem singles in all) was a cover of "I Loves You Porgy," previously a hit on the same label for Nina Simone.
there is an LP on King with James backed by the Dee Felice trio...
ah, i always thought there was only one. STILL doesnt make much sense to me as why "the drunk" was on bethlehem. wasnt he still under the dual-contract thing at that point, as in, since "the drunk" was instrumental, if he didnt want it to be a king release couldnt he just as easily have put it out on Smash? or was he through with smash at that point. either way something tells me "the drunk" 45 was pretty much a throw-away record that either King or JB himself decided shouldnt be released on his main label....but im just guessing here.
He was through with Smash by then (1970).
Also, according to JB's autobiography, the other side of "The Drunk" is "A Man Has To Go Back To The Crossroads," a vocal tune that later wound up on the Super Bad LP.
I had a theory that JB was trying to make a vague play for the jazz market by recording instrumentals for King's jazz label, but then again that doesn't explain "...Crossroads," which is a straight soul ballad.