The Hustlers ''Hustling'' 7" PROMO

The Hustlers

''Hustling'' 7"
( 7'' Promo Single, People Records, 1975 )
Catalog # PE 658

Tracklisting:
A Hustling (Stereo) 3:37
B Hustling (Mono) 3:37

Notes:
Format:Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Promo, Stereo, Mono
Country:US
Released:1975

Credits:
Arranged By - James Brown
Engineer - Bob Both
Producer - James Brown
Written-By - James Brown

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James Brown & The James Brown Band ''Ain't It Funky''

James Brown & The James Brown Band

''Ain't It Funky''
( LP King Records, 1970 )
Catalog # KS-1092

Tracklisting:
A1 Ain't It Funky Now (Part 1 & 2) 9:26
A2 Fat Wood (Part 1 & 2) 9:15
B1 Cold Sweat 5:17
B2 Give It Up Turn It Loose 3:45
B3 Nose Job 2:30
B4 Use Your Mother 3:25
B5 After You Done It 3:28
*Bonus Track: Ain't It Funky Now (Pt. 2) 3:10

Credits:
Engineer [Audio] - Dave Harrison, Ron Lenhoff
Other [Production Manager] - Bud Hobgood
Producer - James Brown
Charles Bobbit - Composer
James Brown - Composer, Vocals
Pee Wee Ellis - Composer
Bud Hobgood - Composer
Jimmy Nolan - Composer

Notes:
Format:Vinyl, LP
Country:US
Released:1970
Side B is instrumental recorded between 1966 & 1969
Distributed by Starday-King Records, Inc.

By Pier

James Brown Tribute (1933-2006)

James Brown Tribute

(1933-2006)

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James Brown "Say It Live And Loud, Live In Dallas 1968" Re-Uploaded

James Brown

"Say It Live And Loud, Live In Dallas 1968"
( LP Polydor Records, 1968 )

Tracklisting:
1 - Show Introduction 0:37
2 - If I Ruled The World 3:45
3 - James Brown Thanks 0:49
4 - Introduction To Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud 1:33
5 - Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud 3:08
6 - I Guess I'll Have To Cry, Cry, Cry 4:19
7 - Kansas City 4:13
8 - Suds 5:16
9 - Soul Pride 3:01
10 - Tighten Up 7:11
11 - Introduction To Star Time! 0:42
12 - Licking Stick - Licking Stick 4:13
13 - Cold Sweat 12:51
14 - There Was A Time 4:57
15 - Medley : Try Me / Lost Someone / Bewildered 6:14
16 - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 0:30
17 - I Got The Feeling 2:43
18 - Maybe The Last Time 1:13
19 - I Got You (I Feel Good) 0:27
20 - Please, Please, Please 2:15
21 - I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) 3:09
22 - Cold Sweat (Reprise) 0:46
23 - I Got The Feeling (Reprise) 0:27
24 - Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud (Reprise) 1:51

Personnel & Credits:
Arranged By - Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (tracks: 2, 8, 9, 13)
James Brown (tracks: 3 to 5, 10 to 24) , Sammy Lowe (tracks: 6, 7)
Bass - 'Sweet' Charles Sherrell , Alfonzo "Country" Kellum
Drums - Clyde Stubblefield , Nate Jones
Engineer [Live] - Ron Lenhoff
Engineer [Studio] - Suha Gur
Guitar - Alfonzo "Country" Kellum, Jimmy Nolen
Mastered By [Digital] - Kevin Reeves
Organ - Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis
Producer - James Brown
Saxophone - Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, Maceo Parker, St-Clair Pinckney
Trombone - Fred Wesley , Levi Rasbury
Trumpet - Richard "Kush" Griffith, Waymon Reed
Violin - Marilyn Jones, Richard Jones, Sylvia Medford

Notes:
Recorded live at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, Texas on August 26, 1968.

Review:
An amazing James Brown live set from the crucial year of 1968 the show that marked the debut of "Say It Loud I'm Black & I'm Proud" a cut that would become an anthem for much of America in the years to come! The feel here is somewhat similar to Brown's famous Boston show of the same year a mix of blistering uptempo funk tracks, played by the band at a clip that's even faster than their studio sides, mixed with a few more stripped-down, personal cuts that feature James getting a bit more intimate with the audience. The production quality of the set is wonderful and it leaves in all the hip spoken bits between tracks, really preserving the liveness of the concert, and packaging the whole thing with some great notes and photos too! Titles include "I Guess I'll Have To Cry Cry Cry", "Say It Loud", "If I Ruled The World", "There Was A Time", "Maybe The Last Time", "I Got The Feeling", "Cold Sweat", "Please Please Please", "Tighten Up", "Licking Stick", and lots more!
Dusty Groove America.

Previously posted 13/08/2007

By Celo

James Brown “The Singles” The Federal Years,1956-’60

James Brown

“The Singles”
The Federal Years,1956-’60

Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
1. Please, Please, Please
2. Why Do You Do Me
3. I Don’t Know
4. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
5. No, No, No, No
6. Hold My Baby’s Hand
7. I Won’t Plead No More
8. Chonnie-On-Chon
9. Just Won’t Do Right
10. Let’s Make It
11. Gonna Try
12. Can’t Be The Same
13. Messing With The Blues
14. Love Or A Game
15. You’re Mine, You’re Mine
16. I Walked Alone
17. That Dood It
18. Baby Cries Over The Ocean
19. Begging, Begging
20. That’s When I Lost My Heart;

Disc 2:
1. Try Me
2. Tell Me What I Did Wrong
3. I Want You So Bad
4. There Must Be A Reason
5. I’ve Got To Change
6. It Hurts To Tell You
7. I’ve Got To Change stereo version
8. It Hurts To Tell You stereo version
9. Doodle Bee
10. Bucket Head
11. It Was You
12. Got To Cry
13. Good Good Lovin’
14. Don’t Let It Happen To Me
15. I’ll Go Crazy
16. I Know It’s True
17. Think
18. You’ve Got The Power duet with Bea Ford
19. This Old Heart
20. Wonder When You’re Coming Home

Review:
In the annals of popular music, one artist reigns supreme as the No. 1 R&B Singles Artist of All Time: James Brown. By far. Now, on the 50th Anniversary of Brown’s professional recording debut, this special order limited edition is the first in a series of 2-LP collections chronicling every single from “The Hardest Working Man In Show Business.” Kicking off the series is The Federal Years: 1956-1960, with 40 songs, from the first hit, the Top 5 “Please, Please, Please,” which remains his signature sign-off, to “Think,” which showcased the sound of things to come. Brown and the Famous Flames had signed with King Records in January, 1956, and as a young, unproven act were placed with King’s Federal subsidiary label. These 40 tracks alone make for a historic and compelling collection, as Brown went from a hit his first time out, to his future being in jeopardy eight flops in a row! to becoming one of the best R&B acts in the country. But this set includes an extraordinary bonus track: the long-lost demo for “Try Me,” which when re-recorded in New York, became Brown’s first of many R&B No. 1 hits. The demo is rough-sounding it was transferred from an extremely rare, recently discovered acetate but it’s a unique and exclusive glimpse into the inner workings of a young James Brown and The Famous Flames.

By Celo

James Brown ”Spinning Wheel” 7”

James Brown

”Spinning Wheel” 7”
( 7” Single, Starday King Records, 1971 )
Catalog # 45-6366

Tracklisting:
A Spinning Wheel (Part 1) (2:20)
B Spinning Wheel (Part 2) (1:58)

Notes:
Format:Vinyl, 7″
Country:US
Released:1971

From the Starday King LP KS-7-1115 ”Sex Machine”

By Pier

James Brown “Night Train”

James Brown

“Night Train”
( LP King Records, 1962 )
Catalog # King LP 771

Tracklisting:
1. Hold It – James Brown
2. The Scratch - James Brown
3. Night Train - James Brown
4. The Wobble - The Wobblers
5. Night Flying - James Brown
6. Just A Little Bit Of Everything - Herb Hardesty
7. Doin’ Everything - Henry Moore
8. Suds - James Brown
9. Tonk Game - Hank Marr
10. Switch-A-Roo - Henry Moore
11. Bushy Tail - Clifford Scott
12. Cross Firing - James Brown

Review:
6 instrumental tracks by James Brown, plus 6 others by The Wobblers, Herb Hardesty, Henry Moore, Hank Marr, and Clifford Scott. Black label “deep groove” King pressing. Notice that the label reads with the LP title ”Twist Around,” with the same catalog number and track listing.

By Celo

The Hit Man, The Godfather Of Soul, The Soul Brother N°1, The Internationally Known Mr.James Brown ”The Singles Volume 6 (1969 – 1970)”

The Hit Man, The Godfather Of Soul, The Soul Brother N°1, The Internationally Known Mr.James Brown

”The Singles Volume 6 (1969 – 1970)”
( Compilation Hip-HOP Select Records, 2009 )

Tracklisting:
Disk 1:
01 – You Got To Have A Mother For Me (Part 1) 02:53
02 – The Little Groove Maker Me 05:20
03 – You Got To Have A Mother For Me (Long Version) 05:23
04 – I Dont Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, Ill Get It Myself) (Part 1) 03:07
05 – I Dont Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, Ill Get It Myself) (Part 2) 02:49
06 – I Love You 03:35
07 – Maybe Ill Understand 03:19
08 – Any Day Now 03:31
09 – Im Shook 02:52
10 – The Popcorn 03:04
11 – The Chicken 02:50
12 – Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part 1) 03:18
13 – Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part 2) 03:07
14 – Lowdown Popcorn 02:48
15 – Top Of The Stack 02:50
16 – World (Part 1) 03:12
17 – World (Part 2) 02:59
18 – Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn Part One 03:06
19 – Sometime 03:07
20 – Im Not Demanding (Part 1) 02:57

Disk 2:
01 – Its Christmas Time (Part 1) 03:12
02 – Its Christmas Time (Part 2) 03:16
03 – Aint It Funky Now (Part 1) 03:10
04 – Aint It Funky Now (Part 2) 03:15
05 – Popcorn With A Feeling 02:58
06 – Part Two (Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn) 03:10
07 – Gittin A Little Hipper (Part 2) 02:11
08 – The Brother Got To Rap (Part 1) 03:14
09 – The Brother Got To Rap (Part 2) 03:42
10 – Its A New Day (Part 1 & Part 2) 05:50
11 – Georgia On My Mind 04:23
12 – Funky Drummer (Part 1) 02:38
13 – Funky Drummer (Part 2) 02:56
14 – Let It Be Me 02:58
15 – Talkin Loud And Saying Nothin (Part 1 & Part 2) 05:12
16 – Bewildered 03:01
17 – Brother Rapp (Part 1 & Part 2) 05:26
18 – A Man Has To Go Back To The Crossroads 03:04
19 – The Drunk 03:06

Comment:
It was no surprise when James Brown’s band collapsed in early 1970– its members must have been incredibly frustrated. They were at the height of their powers, a devastating live act with a string of hits that showed no sign of abating. They also had a star who was barely recording with them while he chased a badly misunderstood crossover ideal in an attempt to reposition himself as a Frank Sinatra type, and whose vacillations about what to release made Hamlet look like John Wayne. The sixth volume of Hip-O’s mail-order-only retrospective of Brown’s singles and scheduled-but-unreleased singles opens with “You Got to Have a Mother for Me”, a surefire hit with a chattering groove that broke new ground for him; it almost got pressed before he decided to scrap it, and it stayed in the can until the late 80s.
In 1969, JB covered Chuck Jackson’s “Any Day Now” with an arrangement by his new protégé Dave Matthews (not that one), scheduled it as an A-side, changed his mind about that version, re-recorded it, scrapped it in favor of an original called “I’m Shook”, had 35,000 copies pressed, then decided he didn’t want to release it after all. “I’m Not Demanding” was prepared as a single twice, then canceled. “The Brother Got to Rap” was another funk grenade cut with the touring band, prepared for rush release, then scratched before it could be pressed. (When the band fell apart a few weeks later, Brown remixed it, faded down its on-mic references to specific musicians, and released it as “Brother Rapp”.) “Talkin’ Loud and Saying Nothin’”, a surprisingly awesome stab at acid-rock (recorded with Matthews and a Cincinnati band that also made a dubious psychedelic album under the name the Grodeck Whipperjenny), was pressed, then yanked before it could be distributed.
Meanwhile, the stuff that actually did make it into circulation often seemed like bizarre choices. The instrumental hit “The Popcorn” was followed by a remake of “You Got to Have a Mother for Me” with “Popcorn” shoehorned into its title, then by the instrumentals “Lowdown Popcorn” and “Popcorn with a Feeling”, as well as “Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn” and its follow-up– the second half of the same take, “Part Two (Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn)”. JB put a huge promotional push behind “World”, an overwrought, funkless “Let the Sunshine In” ripoff (with strings), which he thought would be his big outreach to the hippies. (They preferred to dance to his good records.) The singles he actually did release with his touring band included a pair of improvised warmup jams.
And damned if he didn’t call it more often than not. “Mother Popcorn”, the new version of “You Got to Have a Mother”, was one of the hottest singles he ever made– Clyde Stubblefield’s cymbal smashes are as galvanizing as funk gets. Stubblefield’s prestidigitative drum break at the end of “Funky Drummer”, one of those wait-the-tape-was-rolling? jams, became the king of all samples. Both halves of “Let a Man Come In” hit the R&B Top 10. Even “Talkin’ Loud” pales next to the hard funk version he released for real a few years later.
Of all the volumes in this series so far, this one’s actually got the fewest clinkers– a Christmas single whose melody Soul Brother #1 evidently didn’t learn before he walked into the booth, “World”, another top-heavy ballad called “A Man Has to Go Back to the Crossroads”. Even the throwaways (Matthews-arranged versions of “Georgia On My Mind” and JB’s oldie “Bewildered”, a duet with Vicki Anderson on “Let It Be Me”, a six-minute call-and-response from an Apollo gig) are at least worthy of the man’s sandpaper-and-lava voice. And the cuts with the touring band still glisten with power like sweat on a champion heavyweight: the jawdropping paean to male dominance “It’s a New Day”, the impossibly tense percolator “Ain’t It Funky Now”, and especially the two-part throwdown that replaced “You Got to Have a Mother” on the schedule, “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself)”. A victory strut with a three-against-four rhythmic switchup, it was one of Brown’s most bluntly political statements, but it was also a personal manifesto, and a warning for anyone who tried to get too close to him. James Brown needed other people to realize his vision, but his erratic whims were just more proof that he was running the show.
By Douglas Wolk, February 3, 2009

MFS is always remembering You, dear Godfather!

By Pier

The Hit Man, The Godfather Of Soul, The Soul Brother N°1, The Internationally Known Mr.James Brown ”The Singles Volume 7 (1970 – 1972)”

The Hit Man, The Godfather Of Soul, The Soul Brother N°1, The Internationally Known Mr.James Brown

”The Singles Volume 7 (1970 – 1972)”
( Compilation Hip-HOP Select Records, 2009 )

Tracklisting:
Disk 1:
01 05:18 Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine
(Part 1 & Part 2) Promo Version
02 02:51 Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine
(Part 1)
03 02:37 Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine
(Part 2)
04 05:44 Super Bad (Part 1 & Part 2) Promo Version
05 04:12 Super Bad (Part 1 & Part 2)
06 04:10 Super Bad (Part 3)
07 00:38 Fight Against Drug Abuse
(Public Service Announcement)
08 03:39 Hey America (Vocal)
09 03:45 Hey America (Sing Along)
10 04:22 Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay (Vocal)
11 04:21 Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay (Sing Along)
12 03:33 Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 1)
13 03:34 Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 2)
14 03:32 Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
(Pt. 1) Reverb Version
15 03:34 Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
(Pt. 2) Reverb Version
16 03:33 I Cried
17 03:25 Soul Power (Pt. 1) Promo Version
18 04:54 Soul Power (Pt. 2 & Pt. 3) Promo Version

Disk 2:
01 03:21 Soul Power (Pt. 1)
02 04:53 Soul Power (Pt. 2 & Pt. 3)
03 02:24 Spinning Wheel (Pt. 1)
04 01:59 Spinning Wheel (Pt. 2)
05 03:19 Escape-Ism (Part 1)
06 04:03 Escape-Ism (Part 2 & 3)
07 03:16 Escape-Ism (Part 1) Second Mix
08 04:06 Escape-Ism (Part 2 & 3) Second Mix
09 03:09 Hot Pants (Pt. 1)
10 03:54 Hot Pants (Pt. 2 & 3)
11 02:33 My Brother (Pt. 1) (The J.B.’s)
12 02:28 My Brother (Pt. 2) (The J.B.’s)
13 03:17 Make It Funky (Part 1)
14 04:06 Make It Funky (Part 2)
15 02:40 My Part,make It Funky (Part 3)
16 02:51 My Part,make It Funky (Part 4)
17 02:49 I’m A Greedy Man (Part 1)
18 04:31 I’m A Greedy Man (Part 2)
19 03:01 Just Won’t Do Right (Lyn Collins)
20 03:17 Talking Loud and Saying Nothing (Part 1)
21 04:01 Talking Loud and Saying Nothing (Part 2)

Comment:
On March 9, 1970, James Brown’s band blew up, and it was arguably the best thing that ever happened to him. Hours before a show in Columbus, Georgia, they threatened to quit unless they got better pay and better treatment; Soul Brother #1 fired them and flew in the Pacemakers, a bunch of teenagers from Cincinnati who knew his songs as well as any other funk band in those days. In fact, they were the first band he’d played with who’d grown up on funk, and they included a pair of world-class musicians– guitarist Phelps “Catfish” Collins and his bassist brother William “Bootsy” Collins. For the next year, Brown’s flame burned even hotter than it ever had before or would again.
The string of classic singles that band recorded are all included here, beginning with “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine”. Banged out in two takes in a late-night studio visit a mere six weeks after that Columbus gig, it’s a funk firebomb that would’ve defined anyone else’s career and was just another hit for Brown. Within the year, they also cut “Super Bad” (whose squalling, free-jazz-inspired sax solo by Robert McCullough seemed unthinkable as part of a dance record until JB pulled it off), “Soul Power”, “Talking Loud and Saying Nothing” and a hurtling, screaming freakout called “Get Up, Get Into It, and Get Involved”, all of them massive hits.
By this point, Brown had mostly abandoned songs-as-we-know-them, although he did release a ballad called “I Cried” that he’d written for Tammy Montgomery in the early 60s, as well as a duet with Lyn Collins on his own oldie “Just Won’t Do Right”. The new band’s formula was single-chord riffs (and maybe a bridge on the subdominant), fantastically tricky grids of rhythms and horns, and a couple of hook phrases, sometimes traded with former Famous Flame Bobby Byrd (that’s him yelling the “get on up” part of “Sex Machine”). That’s all they needed.
Brown had always thrived on the spontaneity of his live show, and his new style let him fly as freely on record as he did on stage. Almost all of his early-70s hits have moments that give off the heat of creation in the instant. The loping hard-funk version of “Talking Loud and Saying Nothing” features JB yelling to engineer Ron Lenhoff to “keep the tape running” as he decides in the middle of the take to add its spectacular a cappella breakdown. “Escape-Ism” wasn’t even a composition before it was a recording– it was a warmup jam that Lenhoff thought to record (with another new lineup, which had at that point been together for barely two weeks under the direction of trombonist Fred Wesley), and it went Top 10 on the R&B charts.
The new crop of musicians who joined up in early 1971 weren’t nearly as virtuosic as the Collins brothers (memorable quote from the liner notes, on “Make It Funky”: “Second guitarist Robert Coleman deserves a nod for sticking with his humble three notes and staying out of the way”). Fortunately, Wesley was a brilliant bandleader who knew how to make a lot out of a little. “Hot Pants”, the four-part “Make It Funky” (released as two consecutive singles), and “I’m a Greedy Man” are all juggernaut dance records that turn out, on inspection, to be constructed out of fairly simple components.
As with every volume of this mail-order-only series, Brown’s lapses in taste are revealed a few times, although there aren’t many on this set– a pair of ludicrous Christmas singles and an instrumental cover of Blood, Sweat & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel”. Also, Hip-O’s completist approach to including every alternate mix that hit airwaves or stores, as well as Brown’s habit of splitting songs over 45 sides, means that we get multiple consecutive versions of a lot of titles: the two discs’ 39 tracks represent 15 songs (and a funny/sad anti-drug PSA). But it’s hard to object to hearing “Soul Power” or “Sex Machine” a few times in a row.
By Douglas Wolk, June 4, 2009

A MFS tribute to the Godfather of Soul!

By Pier