For Arjen - James Brown, an Introduction

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Arjen - watch this video by James Brown doing Sex Machine and Soul Power, with his sideman Bobby Byrd ("Hey Bobby, can we take em to the bridge?!")

This song would have come out in the 1970s. Brown has a natural fro in this, just watch the way he moves. If you love funk, you'll love this...

Sex Machine/Soul Power

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Here he is in a 1960s performance, doing a couple of songs, starting with Outta Sight. In this video you can see why they called him the hardest working man in showbiz, and also some of the moves that influenced dancers for generations after him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3KbzjT6Sc&mode=related&search=

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here's another performance of Sex Machine a little discoed but still as tight as ever, and this time paired with Get on the Good Foot. He's back to the pompadour, and has a moustache [img]/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGg3XkN80U

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This song is one of his slow ones, "A Man's World" - a live performance of it. I'm so sorry I didn't get to see James Brown in concert. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObfwPVuFATo

Other versions of Man’s World

This two-minute clip from 1987 apparently that ends too soon [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70361-embarassed.gif[/img]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqEqSIgpqKU

And this longer truly soulful 4 minute version from 1991 that again, ends too soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLt6YoGmbEk

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And here's the classic performance of Please Please Please, his first big hit from 1956. The video quality is distressingly poor, but even so, the outrageous theatricality of this performance comes through. Goodgawdalimghty, wish i had a man who seemed so broken up at the thought I'd leave him and who begged so pitifully for me not to go... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbZmzaSmcxM

[urheiness]

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This has been a wonderful salute to James Brown. I watched just about every clip- He was a true entertainer, but something from time to time happens to us in life that really grabs our attention and James Brown dying on Christmas day is one of them. exisisting here on earth represents a dichotomy of the physical and the spiritual Christmas denotes the birth of [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70384-praying.gif[/img]Christ Jesus[img]/forums/images/graemlins/70384-praying.gif[/img]and <u>the godfather of soul</u> dying on that day makes one call to mind that <u>God is the real father of all souls</u> . Might we acknowlege God as creator and father of us all. Well if ever I had chance to praise God publicly I take the time now [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70458-applaud.gif[/img]-THANK YOU FATHER GOD FOR LIFE, HEALTH, AND STRENGTH [img]/forums/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img].

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thank you, urheiness. it was magical watching him perform.

[tsophra]

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aight MG..juss cause a yu..me checking dem out now [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70459-hugs.gif[/img]

[Blackstar*]

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It was this video that sparked my interest in James Brown.

[Suesumba]

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the please please is a classic. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]