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Printable James Brown's body to be taken to Apollo Theater one more time
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer http://www.newsday.com/ne...-apnewyork December 26, 2006, 6:26 PM EST NEW YORK -- The body of soul singer James Brown will be returned Thursday to the site of his debut _ the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem _ so the public that saw and heard him leave a lasting impression on music can see him one last time, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Tuesday. Brown's body will rest on the stage of the Apollo from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., and thousands of people will be permitted one more look at a man who steered modern music toward the rhythm-and-blues, funk, hip-hop, disco and rap beats popular today, said Sharpton, a close friend of Brown for decades. "It would almost be unthinkable for a man who lived such a sensational life to go away quietly," Sharpton told The Associated Press in an interview from Georgia, where he was making funeral arrangements with Brown's children. Sharpton said he and the children viewed Brown's body Tuesday. "I looked at his body. I was walking in half disbelief and sadness but proud," he said. "I couldn't even begin to describe it, to walk around his house and he not be there." Sharpton said the public Apollo viewing will be followed by a private ceremony Friday in Brown's hometown, Augusta, Ga., and another public ceremony, officiated by Sharpton, a day later at the James Brown Arena there. "His greatest thrill was always the lines around the Apollo Theater," Sharpton said of the 125th Street landmark. "I felt that James Brown in all the years we talked would have wanted one last opportunity to let the people say goodbye to him and he to the people." Brown, known as the Godfather of Soul, died of congestive heart failure on Christmas morning in Atlanta at age 73. He had been scheduled to perform on New Year's Eve in Manhattan at B.B. King's blues club. Sharpton said he and Brown's children talked Tuesday about the moment after the Rev. Martin Luther King's assassination when Brown stepped to a microphone and told gathering crowds of angry people to go home. "And they went home," Sharpton said. "For them to riot for a man who lived a life of peace would send the wrong message. He always said he was surprised and humbled that he had that influence." Sharpton said Brown was "always very sensitive as to how people could be remembered." The Apollo began recruiting and showcasing talent in 1934. Early acts included "Pigmeat" Markham and Jackie "Moms" Mabley. Before long, Lena Horne, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin and Brown were making their debuts. Audiences cheered the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Fats Waller, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr. and Nina Simone. Comedians such as Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor performed, too. Sharpton said he had been like a son to Brown since they met in 1973, introduced by Brown's son, Teddy, shortly before the teenager died in a car crash. He said the son had wanted to encourage his father's support for Sharpton's youth organization, leading Brown to begin a lifelong commitment to Sharpton's civil rights projects. "I became the son he lost," Sharpton said. Sharpton said Brown always knew his place in history. "He used to tell me, `There are two American originals, Elvis and me,"' Sharpton said. "'Elvis is gone, and I've got to carry on."' | |
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I know for a fact that Prince liked him alot,we will miss him dearly  This is the Future Soul Song! | |
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sosgemini said: sallysassalot said: it was on there the day he died. that's how i found out. by the way, how in the world did it take three days? didn't he die early yesterday morning? thats what i thought too but cborgman said in gd that he died xmas eve but that the mainstream media didn't pick up on it till yesterday. and i didn't see it on cnn's homepage yesterday...well, except for a online blurb about how brown's wife was being locked out of the house. maybe i missed the big ole featured picture and proper write up...cause it wasn't there the times i checked. he died in the 1am hour of the 25th, not christmas eve. i don't know if it was "a big ole featured picture and proper write up" but it was the same as what former president gerald ford is getting right now. | |
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sallysassalot said: sosgemini said: thats what i thought too but cborgman said in gd that he died xmas eve but that the mainstream media didn't pick up on it till yesterday. and i didn't see it on cnn's homepage yesterday...well, except for a online blurb about how brown's wife was being locked out of the house. maybe i missed the big ole featured picture and proper write up...cause it wasn't there the times i checked. he died in the 1am hour of the 25th, not christmas eve. i don't know if it was "a big ole featured picture and proper write up" but it was the same as what former president gerald ford is getting right now. Gerald Ford died? Space for sale... | |
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Ford's getting a lot more coverage than James. Fox has been live all night and CNN was live till bout 2 in the morning.
Granted Ford died bout 6 pm on the West Coast so the feeds were still live. I wonder what the coverage would have been if James Hadn't died on Christmas when most everyone was on holiday. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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Just paying my respects and posting to say he was one of the best, if not the best to ever do it. | |
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lisa1 said: I know for a fact that Prince liked him alot,we will miss him dearly
Liked him alot ???? That's the understatement of the century.... just look at the old James footage, and tell me who you see ??? HouseQuake ? | |
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DownTheNeedleDownTheSpoon said: lisa1 said: I know for a fact that Prince liked him alot,we will miss him dearly
Liked him alot ???? That's the understatement of the century.... just look at the old James footage, and tell me who you see ??? HouseQuake ? You are sooooo right. The screams, splits and footwork. I do believe he did say in an interview that James Brown was one of his influences, how could he not be, you know what I mean? I will surely miss Mr. Brown. I could remember my older siblings running to the record store to get his 45, because the man was putting out new songs and just about new dances every week! There will surely never be another "Godfather of Soul" He truly has earned that title. | |
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This is a clip that brings me tears of joy. Its little Michael Jackson singing and dancing during the Jackson 5's late 60s audition for Motown Records in Detroit. Little Michael was a James Brown mini-me! WATCH!
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we found out about this, like alot of people, on christmas morning. there was a gray cloud hanging over my household on that day... i can liken it to when ray charles died. just disbelief really.
R.I.P, JB and thanks for everything you gave us through your talents and kindness. | |
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DownTheNeedleDownTheSpoon said: lisa1 said: I know for a fact that Prince liked him alot,we will miss him dearly
Liked him alot ???? That's the understatement of the century.... just look at the old James footage, and tell me who you see ??? HouseQuake ? agreed. prince has been on my mind too-- i know he has to be very very sad. | |
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I simply cannot believe it! I really regret not seeing him when he was in my state a couple of years ago. I thought he'd live to be a hundred.
I haven't been online all weekend, so I found out about this on Entertainment Tonight yesterday. What's worse is that I have been listening to the local oldies station in my car during my Christmas travels, and they didn't say anything about James' death. (They even played some of his songs yesterday, but still no mention) When did the news break? Wanna hear me sing?  www.ChampagneHoneybee.com | |
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The family is asking for donations in JB's memory to his foundation.
The address is James Brown Music Education Foundation c/o Intrigue Music, 601 W. 26th St., Suite 1080, New York, N.Y. 10001. | |
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Joel Rosen, writing on slate.com, argued he was more influential than Louis Armstrong in popular music. That bold statement is no exaggeration.
James did it like no one else. The musicians on this site are better suited to address that, but there was a fury, complexity, and humor in his music. He is the undisputed funk master. He helped pave the way for the Sly Stones, Average White Bands, Michael Jacksons, and Princes of the pop world. His music formed hip-hop as we know it today. When I think of musical icons of the last 50 years, the first names that come to mind are Coltrane, Hendrix, Stevie, Prince and Soul Brother No. 1. Rest in peace with love and soulpower. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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dreamfactory313 said: This is a clip that brings me tears of joy. Its little Michael Jackson singing and dancing during the Jackson 5's late 60s audition for Motown Records in Detroit. Little Michael was a James Brown mini-me! WATCH!
http://www.youtube.com/wa...ZGf4LujriI That's nothing. Watch the last 2 minutes or so of this clip. Is that JB Jnr or is that JB Jnr.. 
http://www.youtube.com/wa...6ezgAeN58E Rest in Peace JB. Your memory continues to live on. | |
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whatsgoingon said: dreamfactory313 said: This is a clip that brings me tears of joy. Its little Michael Jackson singing and dancing during the Jackson 5's late 60s audition for Motown Records in Detroit. Little Michael was a James Brown mini-me! WATCH!
http://www.youtube.com/wa...ZGf4LujriI That's nothing. Watch the last 2 minutes or so of this clip. Is that JB Jnr or is that JB Jnr..
http://www.youtube.com/wa...6ezgAeN58E Rest in Peace JB. Your memory continues to live on. If those who were influenced by him were considered his children, James Brown would make Shawn Kemp look like the abbot of a monastery. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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npgmaverick said: rockyracoon said: [comment removed - Tom]
There is always one in the bunch.  | |
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serpan99 said: James Brown Funeral Will Be In Augusta The 'Godfather Of Soul' Will Be Laid To Rest In Georgia Hometown http://www.showbuzz.cbsne...9342.shtml ATLANTA, Dec. 26, 2006 The public funeral service, which the Rev. Al Sharpton will officiate, is expected to draw a who's who of entertainment figures and public officials. I wonder if Prince will go to the funeral? Or maybe he'll get to go to the private family one? Or maybe he won't go at all (I seem to remember him skipping some other funerals...) I'm tempted to go by the Apollo tomorrow, but am afraid the lines are going to be outrageously long and I have to work until 5:30pm. Plus it might be too creepy for me (I'm not good with dead bodies.)  | |
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LOL! | |
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Looks like Spike Lee has signed on to direct the movie:
Wed Dec 27, 3:43 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Spike Lee has signed on to shoot a movie about James Brown, the late "Godfather of Soul," Daily Variety reported on Wednesday. The authorized project is being developed for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures by Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning producer of "A Beautiful Mind," the trade publication said, adding that production would likely begin in 2008. Brown, the self-proclaimed "hardest working man in show business," died of congestive heart failure on Monday, aged 73. The energetic singer of such soul anthems as "Sex Machine" and "I Feel Good," invented funk music, inspired the dance moves of Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson, and helped pave the way for hip-hop. In recent years, posthumous movies about soul singer Ray Charles and country outlaw Johnny Cash have scored at the box office and won Academy Awards. Daily Variety said Brown played an active role in the project's development, and granted access to his music rights. "Like everybody, I was surprised and saddened that James Brown died," Daily Variety quoted Grazer as saying. "Having known him well, and after spending lots of time with him and researching his life, it's somehow not surprising that he died on Christmas Day. He was the ultimate showman, all the way to the end." Lee, the director of "Malcolm X," was most recently in theaters with the thriller "Inside Man," which Grazer produced. | |
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Darla said: Looks like Spike Lee has signed on to direct the movie:
He deserved to be recognized while he was still here.Wed Dec 27, 3:43 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Spike Lee has signed on to shoot a movie about James Brown, the late "Godfather of Soul," Daily Variety reported on Wednesday. The authorized project is being developed for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures by Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning producer of "A Beautiful Mind," the trade publication said, adding that production would likely begin in 2008. Brown, the self-proclaimed "hardest working man in show business," died of congestive heart failure on Monday, aged 73. The energetic singer of such soul anthems as "Sex Machine" and "I Feel Good," invented funk music, inspired the dance moves of Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson, and helped pave the way for hip-hop. In recent years, posthumous movies about soul singer Ray Charles and country outlaw Johnny Cash have scored at the box office and won Academy Awards. Daily Variety said Brown played an active role in the project's development, and granted access to his music rights. "Like everybody, I was surprised and saddened that James Brown died," Daily Variety quoted Grazer as saying. "Having known him well, and after spending lots of time with him and researching his life, it's somehow not surprising that he died on Christmas Day. He was the ultimate showman, all the way to the end." Lee, the director of "Malcolm X," was most recently in theaters with the thriller "Inside Man," which Grazer produced. | |
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namepeace said: Joel Rosen, writing on slate.com, argued he was more influential than Louis Armstrong in popular music. That bold statement is no exaggeration.
James did it like no one else. The musicians on this site are better suited to address that, but there was a fury, complexity, and humor in his music. He is the undisputed funk master. He helped pave the way for the Sly Stones, Average White Bands, Michael Jacksons, and Princes of the pop world. His music formed hip-hop as we know it today. When I think of musical icons of the last 50 years, the first names that come to mind are Coltrane, Hendrix, Stevie, Prince and Soul Brother No. 1. Rest in peace with love and soulpower. I'd give that take a bit of an argument. Without "Pops" the rhythmically syncopated "over the bar" phrasing James Brown was so fond of may have been seriously delayed. I'd add Brother Ray Charles to your icons list. Gospel + Blues = R&B (a new Dead Language)
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Stymie said: Darla said: Looks like Spike Lee has signed on to direct the movie:
He deserved to be recognized while he was still here.And he was | |
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NuPwr319 said: What a shock on Christmas Day.
I remember last New Year's Eve watching JB on television do a 2-hour performance and not missing a beat. Unbelievable. My husband's sad 'cause that was his MAN! The first Christmas present I bought for him after we were married in 2001 was the "Star Time" compilation. I was just thinking that I need to replace it because my husband has worn those CD's plum out. God Bless You, JB. You will be missed.  Well said. I was wrapping gifts when I heard this on the radio - it hit me like a ton of bricks. When I was growing up, it was James Brown, Motown and the Beatles. It's like a part of your family's gone. | |
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