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This is a discography chronicling the musical career of James Brown. Brown joined Bobby Byrd's vocal group The Flames in 1953, first as a drummer, and then as leading front man. Later becoming The Famous Flames , they signed with Federal Records in 1956 and recorded their first hit single, " Please, Please, Please ", which sold over a million ...
I Cried (James Brown song) I Don't Mind (James Brown song) I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing; I Got a Bag of My Own; I Got Ants in My Pants; I Got the Feelin' I Got You (I Feel Good) I Guess I'll Have to Cry, Cry, Cry (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; I Love You Yes I Do; I Refuse to Lose; I Want You So Bad (James Brown song)
I Cried (James Brown song) I Don't Mind (James Brown song) I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing; I Got a Bag of My Own; I Got Ants in My Pants; I Got the Feelin' I Got You (I Feel Good) I Guess I'll Have to Cry, Cry, Cry; I Know You Got Soul (Bobby Byrd song) I Wanna Rock (Snoop Dogg song) I Want You So Bad (James Brown song) I'll Go Crazy ...
James' vision allowed that music to get out. And the music always came from the groove, whereas for so many R&B and Motown artists at the time it was more about conventional songs. James Brown's songs are not conventional. "I Got You," "Out of Sight" — they are ultimately vehicles for unique, even bizarre grooves...
"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" is a funk song recorded by James Brown with Bobby Byrd on backing vocals. Released as a two-part single in 1970, it was a no. 2 R&B hit and reached no. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] In 2004, "Sex Machine" was ranked number 326 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. [3]
Brown and the Famous Flames performed "Please, Please, Please" as part of their set in The T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. [10] In the film Blues Brothers 2000, Brown performs the song after the closing credits. In Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, an actor in the role of Brown performs the song in a theater along Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue.
20 All-Time Greatest Hits! is a compilation album by James Brown containing 20 of his most famous recordings. Released by Polydor in 1991 as a single-disc alternative to the Star Time box set, it features songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. 16 of the songs from the album had previously topped the US R&B charts.
"The Payback" is a funk song by James Brown, the title track from his 1973 album of the same name. The song's lyrics, originally written by trombonist and bandleader Fred Wesley but heavily revised by Brown himself soon before it was recorded, concern the revenge he plans to take against a man who betrayed him.