This is my favorite cut from the album, an underrated classic. Thanks for posting.
A much needed Black Music thread.
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I am shocked this gem wasn't sampled more extensively in hip hop
Funky Nassau Pt. 1
Funky Nassau Pt. 1
Some more Candi.....it does,nt get much sweeter than this
RIP Sly. Thank you for your epic contribution to black music.
"I Want To Take You Higher"
"You Can Make It If You Try"
"Everybody Is a Star"
"If You Want Me to Stay"
"I Want To Take You Higher"
"You Can Make It If You Try"
"Everybody Is a Star"
"If You Want Me to Stay"
The original - The Miracles
Cover #1 The Jackson 5
Cover #2 Terence Trent D'Arby
Sample En Vogue
Cover #1 The Jackson 5
Cover #2 Terence Trent D'Arby
Sample En Vogue
You didn't see this often in 60's soul. Interesting technique as well.
James Brown influenced countless artists. Watching this video I can't help but think this was the 1964 version of 1983 Michael Jackson.
One of the few Telecaster players that kept the "ashtray" cover on over the pickup and bridge...
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I may have told this story before.
In 1964, at the age of 19, I went with some friends to Minneapolis for New Year's. We stayed at a fraternity house on the University of Minnesota campus
On New year's Eve we heard music coming from an athletic field house on the campus.
When we went in, there was a free concert going on, all standing room, so we were at the very back.
It was James Brown & The Famous Flames doing the first "Live At The Apollo" LP set.
I had never heard of James, as he got no radio play in Winnipeg, and I had no idea who the singer and band were. And truthfully I was too shy back then to ask anybody in the all-Black audience who was performing.
The next day, cuz stores in Minneapolis were open on New Year's Day, I went to a record store on Hennepin in Minneapolis, and asked a clerk who did "Please, Please, Please".
He showed me the Live At The Apollo LP, which I instantly bought.
It was a constant on my turntable back in Winnipeg for the next year, and I have bought the same album in many forms since.
(I also have the T.A.M.I. / T.N.T. BlueRay DVD, which is also a treasure. The story there goes the Stones didn't want to follow James' killer performance, but they did, and the crowd went just as nuts for them.)
This is an awesome story. James Brown and the Rolling Stones in their early days. How epic is that.
Actually the first time I saw the Stones live was in the summer of 1965 in Vancouver, at the Pacific National Exhibition.
It not usually good to be old, but I did get to see a lot of great musicians live in the 60's...
