Now for the hardest working man in show bizness...!!

name your all-time favorite JB's songs (you can include
his productions with the JB's too)

out of the top of head; (and subject to change)

1.ants in my pants
2.good foot
3.please please please
4.like it is...like it was (rapping jB)
5. ain't that a groove (what a classic) i got him doing this
on video circa 1966 on a Dick CLark 60's show called
'WHERE THE ACTION IS"...jb was so BAD then...high pompadour..smooth and cool..
6.prisoner of love
7.licking stick
8.cold sweat
9.hot pants
10.papas got a brand new bag ...the extended version...
go MACEO go!
11.funky president (rap godfather rap)
12.black and proud
13.sex machine
14.the big payback
15.make it funky
16.super bad
17.night train
18.maybe the last time
19.i feel good
20.its a man's world

and these are just the ones i can think of at the moment...
so JB funk fans what's the verdict!

1. Sayin' It And Doin' It
2. For Goodness' Sakes, Look At Those Cakes (Part I)
3. Deep In It
4. Mother Popcorn
5. HOT PANTS!
6. Night Train
7. Funky Drummer
8. Aw heck, just about anything they threw on "In The Jungle Groove"

Anxiety said:

Definitely.

1. AINT IT FUNKY NOW (live)
2. Give It Up or Turn It A Loose (studio AND live - it's a tie)
3. Sex Machine
4. There It Is (live) the turnaround is like a train going off a cliff
5. I'm Payin Taxes
6. STATIC! don't start none, won't be none

In random order...
"I'm Real" (Hell yeah! FullForce in the house with JB, putting all the "samplers" in check)
"Superbad"
"Papa don't Take No mess"
"Let a man come in and do the popcorn"
"I don't want nobody to give me nothing"

Not only do I love lists, but a list on JB is "too cool". Here goes:

• THIS IS A MAN'S WORLD
• I FEEL GOOD
• PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
• PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG
• LICKIN' STICK
• SEX MACHINE
• MONEY WONT CHANGE U
• SUPER BADD
• DOIN' IT 2 DEATH
• GIVE IT UP OR TURN IT LOOSE
• I GOT THE FEELIN'
• GET UP OFF THAT THANG
• COLD SWEAT
• HOT PANTS
• IT'S TOO FUNKY IN HERE
• TRY ME
• GONNA HAVE A FUNKY GOOD TIME
• GET ON THE GOOD FOOT
• PRISONER OF LOVE
• GEORGIA ON MY MIND

Youngca, I have 2 tell u that the album u suggested on the "other" JB thread, "DOIN' IT 2 DEATH"...that I couldnt locate? I found I had the SINGLE song on my CD "Collections Edition". It is indeed cool. Just off the top of my head...
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Now dont bite my head off but i loved Dr. FEELGOOD from the Gravity album. In fact there was some pretty solid funk on there.

I prefer to make a good list of Albums.

- The Popcorn
- Gittin down to it
- Sho is funky down here
- Payback
- Thinkin about Little Willie John and a few other nice things
- Grits and Soul
- Revolution of the Mind

oh b4 i forget...props to these Jb sidemen who made JB better than i IS (and who got fined by him alot!)

first the brothas who passed on to the next world:
guitarist Jimmy CHANK Nolen (his signature lick on
papa's got a brand new bag probably influenced
prince,jesse,nile ridgers,etc etc...

st clair pinkney...was with JB forever before his death.
30 plus years...

and these cats:melvin & maceo parker...jabo starks,,,
clyde stubbenfield...clayton fillyau (original early 60's
funk drummer extraodianne...check him out on live at the
APOllo 1962-63 ) pee wee ellis...fred wesley...bobby byrd...bobby was the one who kept a young JB from going back
in JAIl and it was his gospel group JB joined that turned
into the famous flames...



of course JB took over the group and made Bobby his 'second
in command"

danny ray...still tellin' us how BAD jb is..
(think about this prince & time fans...danny ray is the role
JEROME played in the TIME and with prince in cherry moon!)



the sistahs...sugar pie de santo...tammy terrell (yep she dated james back in the early 60's!) marva whitney..
lynn collins...vicki anderson byrd (the best lady singer
JB ever had)

again JB is super bad but contrary to his STORY he didn't do
it alone.

everybody i named probably got fined dozens of times by JB!

and took it because they Knew he was SPECIAL.

2 more Jb classics: i don't mind & maybe the last time...

Dont forget Martha High.
She was his singer for more than 30 years before she left the band in 1998 to join Maceo.
She sang background on all 70s albums and even recorded a duet of "Summertime" on "Mutha Nature" (1977).

I have a reissue of some of Marva Whitney's work produced by JB, and it's one of my favorites - she had an energy on that album that you just can't get anywhere else.

Anxiety said:

She was good. Her live-album is my favorite.
But I prefer Vicki and Lyn.

soulpower said:

yep...martha high (harvin) was with JB a long time.
she was in a 60's girl group called the JEWEls.

they worked with BO Diddley & JB.

and yes Vicki was BAD.

bobby married her,too.

soulpower said:

Whatever happened to Marva, anyway?

youngca said:

You will be glad to hear that I am currently putting a band together and take Lyn Collins and Martha High on the road next spring as "James Browns Funky Divas".

Anxiety said:

She's still around, touring with Bobby.

soulpower said:

Bobby's a baaad mutha fucka...ghat dayum

I read ALL u guys post of lists & I think we ALL ( including me ) 4got "TALKIN' LOUD & SAYIN' NOTHIN'! Remember our prince covers THAT too!

grandebelle said:

Yeah, and Prince's version sucks big time.

I prefer JBs first cut of that tune, the one with the fuzz guitars.

"i don't want nobody to give me nothing (open up the door, i'll get it myself)"

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Dansa...that IS a cut and a half...HIT ME!!!

i forgot that one on my list.

All respect and props to JB. Thanks for the lists of his songs - just readin the titles sure brings back a lot of good memories!