James Brown on stage in 1964.Photo: GettyLenhoff captured many of Brown's most iconic performances during the halcyon years when he was signed to the independent King Records label in Cincinnati, Ohio. This was founded in 1943 by one Syd Nathan, who, after initially owning a record store th...
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By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of the J.B.s with records such as "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" and "The Payback". He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit "Say It Loud - I'm ...
Brown later used this kind of emotional singing in his own performances. He also liked the sound of the jazz and rhythm and blues performer Louis Jordan. Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. VOICE TWO: By...
2002 - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury finds James Brown not guilty of sexually harassing a former employee, rejecting four of the five counts brought against the singer.
The Godfather of Soul had high standards to live up following some memorable achievements in 1966, not least the staging-post brilliance of “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World.” In autumn of that year, Mr. Brown had released “Don’t Be A Dropout,” one of the songs that reflecte...
Robert Brown is no better here in his third of four outings as Bond’s boss M. And Caroline Bliss, who joins Dalton in also being introduced here in the first of only two outings in the role of Miss Moneypenny (only the second actress to play the role since its inception 25 years ear...
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“James Brown covered ‘What Kind of Fool Am I?’ for his 1970 album,Soul on Top. “The song was also the inspiration for a Gary Larson cartoon (see below). *“Publisher Harold Richmond related an amusing story about Bennett and ‘What Kind of Food Am I?’: ...