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JAMES BROWN: THE SINGLES: Vol 10 - 1975-1979
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James Brown, the pillar of soul and funk, faced commercial challenges in the mid-1970s, and more often than not was losing out to the young cats who had built their grooves on his innovations. But Godfather JB never gave up – never stopped touring or recording. In The Singles Vol. 10: 1975-1979, the long-running James Brown reissue series from Hip-oSelect.com, we get every track released, including a few long-lost nuggets, from this period. Among this era’s classics are the worldwide hits “Get Up Offa That Thing” and “It’s Too Funky In Here.” The Singles Vol. 10: 1975-1979 features 36 tracks from the always-prolific James Brown and a changing cast of J.B.’s. The music here leans a little heavier to disco, and JB was now calling himself the “Minister of New New Super Heavy Funk.” Other hits from the period include “Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)” – a funky cop of David Bowie’s “Fame” – the top 20 R&B hits “I Refuse To Lose,” “Body Heat” and “Give Me Some Skin,” as well as the underrated “Spank,” “If You Don’t Give A Dogone About It” and “Kiss In 77,” an uncharacteristic ballad that became a staple of the Brown live show.
Rare tracks on the collection include “Dooley’s Junkyard Dogs,” a tribute to the University of Georgia football team; covers of the Elvis Presley hit “Love Me Tender” and the standard “Summertime”; and “Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time,” a “lost” J.B.’s single that was the last on the People label.
Complementing the previous nine volumes, The Singles Vol. 10: 1975-1979 includes a thick booklet with liner notes from James Brown staffer Alan Leeds summarizing every track, an introductory essay, a detailed recording timeline, rare photos, and reproductions of memorabilia.
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I am suprised how good this volume is. Besides Hot (I Need To Be Loved), Get Up Offa That Thing, Body Heat, Eye Sight and Tpp Funky In Here, I've never heard the other songs. They are suprisingly good, if not great. Why he couldn't really get a hit (and the tracks I posted were not reall a JB hit compared to his earlier work no number 1's or top 40 pop hits on this disc for the first timeall-series.) Refuse To Lose sounds like an old jam from the late 60s. All the ballads are nice. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I think dad purchased the last of James' hits sets from way back because that's how I got hooked on this one:
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PRINCE: Always and Forever
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"Nature" is my MOTHAFUNKIN' CUT from James' later years. "I Refuse to Lose" is too much. And so is "Jam". | |
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I've been hooked on this one for a good minute. Was buying this the first time you heard this gem, LBC? | |
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Probably. I never had it on any other JB compilations, unless he performed it on some concert VHS I have of him from 1985 and the Montreux 79' show, than most likely not. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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My dad had a tape with this song, I think it was the single version of it, I fell in love with it when I first heard it at around 11 years old. [Edited 3/27/11 19:58pm] | |
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