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Now THIS is how to make an entrance and start a concert!

 James Brown Live in Zaire 1974 - The Big Payback

Now it may look like it won’t play . . . it’s not true, just click on it anyway to see the Godfather of Soul!

James Brown would have been 90 today!

Forgot the King's Birthday yesterday!
Elvis Presley? Chuck Berry? Jerry Lee?
Naaah . . . . . . . . 

Ladies and Gentlemen The King! 

 MR JAMES BROWN

Born yesterday: May 3, 1933 - 

“The Godfather Of Soul, The Hardest Working Man In Show Business”, 

the incomparable James Brown (born James Joseph Brown in Barnwell, SC). 

Happy Birthday to one of most influential musicians in history on what would have been his 86th Birthday.

I Can't Stand It!

In MEMORIAM to 

Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING

On this day in music history: April 5, 1968 - James Brown performs at the Boston Garden in Boston, MA. The concert takes place the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. The city of Boston, along with many other major cities across the US sees major rioting as people express their anger and grief at the loss of the civil rights leader. At the behest of Boston’s mayor Kevin White, Brown makes a televised plea for the rioting to stop. His concert is broadcast live on local PBS television station WGBH in Boston, and is immediately rebroadcast after the live telecast. People are moved to stop rioting to stay home and watch the concert. The original concert “Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968” is released on DVD in August of 2008. The landmark show is also commemorated in a documentary produced by PBS and VH1 titled “The Night James Brown Saved Boston”.

thanks as always to the amazing behind the grooves site

I always found this concert film footage profoundly moving and after the tragic assassination of Dr King which always smacked of some  conspiracy that Dr King appeared to have premonition of to me, that there were people as strong as James Brown at these times and Jesse Jackson to continue the work required is a wonderment. . . . . . . 

No, I didn't buy this when it came out . . . . . . . it is here today because . . . . . .well it's the King! and frankly it's a masterpiece!

On this day in music history: December 4, 1965 - “I Got You (I Feel Good)” by James Brown hits #1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart for 6 weeks, also peaking at #3 on the Hot 100 on December 18, 1965. Written and produced by James Brown, it is the third R&B chart topper for the artist known as “The Hardest Working Man In Show Business”. The “hit” version of the song is recorded by Brown on May 6, 1965 at Criteria Studios in Miami, FL. He had previously recorded the song in September 1964 for release on Smash Records. Brown’s label King Records blocks the release of the earlier version, though that does not stop the momentum of the record. Alan Leeds, then a disc jockey at WANT-AM in Richmond, VA (later James Browns’ road manager and also later works in the same capacity for Prince), dubs the song off of TV when Brown performs the song on the variety show “Where The Action Is”. Demand for the record  skyrockets, forcing King Records to rush out the newly recorded second version of the song as a single. Released in October of 1965 on the heels of his breakout crossover smash “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag”, “I Got You” quickly races up the R&B and pop charts simultaneously. Brown also performs the earlier version in the Frankie Avalon film “Ski Party” released earlier in 1965, which is recreated in the James Brown biopic “Get On Up”. In later years, The song is featured in the films “Good Morning Vietnam”, “The Nutty Professor” and quoted by actor Chris Rock (as Rodney the Guinea Pig) in “Dr. Dolittle”. James Brown’s recording of “I Got You (I Feel Good)” is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2013.

ALSO on this day . . . . . . . . 

On this day in music history: April 5, 1968 - James Brown performs at the Boston Garden in Boston, MA. The concert takes place the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. The city of Boston, along with many other major cities across the US sees major rioting as people express their anger and grief at the loss of the civil rights leader. At the behest of Boston’s mayor Kevin White, Brown makes a televised plea for the rioting to stop. His concert is broadcast live on local PBS television station WGBH in Boston, and is immediately rebroadcast after the live telecast. People are moved to stop rioting to stay home and watch the concert. The original concert “Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968” is released on DVD in August of 2008. The landmark show is also commemorated in a documentary produced by PBS and VH1 titled “The Night James Brown Saved Boston”.

Extraordinary scenes! . . . . . . . .  Following the 'cod' collapsing which I always really enjoyed and can remember the first time I saw James get draped with his glitter jacket and be carried off only to reappear and be dragged back by the sounds, here the crowd gets a little unruly for understandable reasons but check out the Godfather control the crowd. Truly extraordinary!

another from Jeff Harris' wonderful music blog