{"id":54952,"date":"2022-07-15T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=54952"},"modified":"2022-07-18T01:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T06:31:04","slug":"james-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/james-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Who Changed Music: James Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"produ-551763762\" class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement produ-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-9926724128823-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-9926724128823-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-9926724128823-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-9926724128823-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-9926724128823-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbSUyRmVtYmVkJTJGdGpuQ1dxaEZqQzglMjIlMjB0aXRsZSUzRCUyMllvdVR1YmUlMjB2aWRlbyUyMHBsYXllciUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIyMCUyMiUyMGFsbG93JTNEJTIyYWNjZWxlcm9tZXRlciUzQiUyMGF1dG9wbGF5JTNCJTIwY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlJTNCJTIwZW5jcnlwdGVkLW1lZGlhJTNCJTIwZ3lyb3Njb3BlJTNCJTIwcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]<b>Written by Paul Tingen\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Brown was called \u201cthe Godfather of Soul,\u201d \u201cSoul Brother No. 1,\u201d \u201cMr. Dynamite,\u201d and \u201cthe Minister of Super Heavy Funk.\u201d He was also known as \u201cthe hardest working man in show business,\u201d and \u201cKing of the One-Nighters,\u201d because at one time he performed as many as 350 gigs a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these titles illustrate Brown\u2019s importance as one of the most influential musicians of the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century. He invented funk, which did not only become a genre in its own right, but also a crucial influence on rock, soul, pop, hip-hop, and African and Latin American music, and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown was one of the leading artists of his day, with 17 number one singles in the Billboard R&amp;B charts to his name. As a singer, he\u00a0 moved the soul genre forwards, with a powerful vocal style that incorporated influences from blues, gospel, jazz, country and rock, as well as a stunning ability to scream in tune.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown also was a songwriter, bandleader, arranger, and producer, and a consummate showman, who developed spectacular and acrobatic dance routines that were a huge influence on musicians like Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Prince, and many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, Brown broke down boundaries of racial segregation and championed black empowerment. In 1968, he recorded a song called \u201cSay It Loud \u2013 I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m Proud,\u201d which became a rallying call for the entire black community. The phrase continues to empower black people today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Brown\u2019s life was the archetypal rags-to-riches story; but also had a darker side, with arrests for domestic violence, theft, assault, and drugs and weapons charges. Despite this, Brown was and remains a global icon, one of the few artists who changed music so profoundly that it\u2019s possible to speak of a time before and after.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>EARLY DAYS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Joseph Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina, on May 3, 1933. He grew up in extreme poverty. Brown loved music, and hearing jazz and R&amp;B singer Louis Jordan perform on the radio inspired him to become a singer and an entertainer. When Brown was 11, he won a talent contest by singing a song called \u201cSo Long.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown was convicted of theft at the age of 16, and put in a juvenile detention center, where he received the nickname \u201cMusic Box,\u201d because of his vocal talents. He also met with fellow-singers John Terry and Bobby Byrd at the center, and formed a gospel quartet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown was released from the detention center in 1952 and, two years later, joined a vocal group called The Avons, founded by Bobby Bird. In 1955, after having gone through several name changes, the group took on the name The Famous Flames.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Famous Flames started performing songs written by Brown, and one of them was \u201cPlease, Please, Please,\u201d which he had co-written with John Terry. It was released on Federal, a sublabel of King Records, in March 1956. \u201cPlease, Please, Please,\u201d gradually became a major hit and went on to sell a million copies. The song has since become a classic and, in 2011, Rolling Stone magazine included it in a list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The success of \u201cPlease, Please, Please,\u201d established Brown as the undisputed leader of the group, and in 1957, the name was changed to James Brown and The Famous Flames. The group\u2019s next nine single releases flopped. However, in 1958, the ballad \u201cTry Me\u201d became Brown\u2019s first number one on the Billboard R&amp;B charts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BEGINNING OF FUNK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April 1959, with a changed line-up, Brown and his group debuted at the Harlem Apollo in New York in April 1959. For the next few years, James Brown enjoyed several hit songs, including \u201cI Want You So Bad,\u201d \u201cThink,\u201d \u201cBewildered,\u201d \u201cDon&#8217;t Mind,\u201d \u201cThis Old Heart,\u201d \u201cI&#8217;ll Go Crazy,\u201d and \u201cShout and Shimmy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October 1962, James Brown and The Famous Flames performed another concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem \u2014 and in May 1963 \u2014 a 31-minute excerpt was released as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live at the Apollo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The album spent 66 weeks in the Billboard album chart, reaching number two. The album had a huge, lasting impact, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, and added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2004.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live at the Apollo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is often described as one of the greatest live albums of all time. By this stage, Brown had developed a stage routine that involved advanced footwork and dancing, with Brown at one point pretending to fall to the floor, and then being helped up by some of his band members. A cape was part of the act, in part influenced by wrestler Gorgeous George. James Brown adopted the name \u201cMr. Dynamite\u201d around this time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A track by Brown released on the Smash label in 1964 &#8211; \u201cOut of Sight\u201d &#8211; has been earmarked by Brown as his first move towards funk. At the beginning of 1965, he recorded \u201cPapa\u2019s Got A Brand New Bag,\u201d which was another important milestone in the development of funk. The emphasis beat\u2019s emphasis had shifted from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">four <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the first beat of the bar, or \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the one<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u2019 as Brown called it. Horns complemented the groove with staccato, rhythmic accents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPapa\u2019s Got A Brand New Bag\u201d was released in June 1965, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spent eight weeks at the top of the American R&amp;B charts. It also earned Brown his first Grammy Award, in the Best Rhythm &amp; Blues Recording category. Later that year, the single \u201cI Got You (I Feel Good)\u201d was released, and likewise went to both number one in the R&amp;B charts and number three in the General Single charts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI Got You (I Feel Good)\u201d was another seminal moment in the development of funk. The band laid down a funky rhythm that still sounds modern today. In February of 1966, Brown recorded a ballad that would become one of the best-known songs of his career, \u201cIt\u2019s A Man\u2019s Man\u2019s Man\u2019s World.\u201d The song was ideally suited to Brown\u2019s emotive singing, and he performed it for the rest of his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>FUNK BLUEPRINT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May 1967, James Brown recorded a song called \u201cCold Sweat,\u201d that has been credited as being \u201cthe first true funk song.\u201d \u201cCold Sweat\u201d is a development of a song that Brown recorded in 1962: \u201cI Don\u2019t Care.\u201d The new song was based on a bassline that the singer sang to arranger, co-writer, and saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis, who added horns parts inspired by those in Miles Davis\u2019s \u201cSo What.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCold Sweat\u201d is mostly one chord throughout the song, with a switch up in the bridge; and has a modal feel. The overall arrangement was very sparse, and Brown\u2019s declamatory singing style later became an influence on rapping. When it was released in July 1967, \u201cCold Sweat\u201d sounded revolutionary. The song became the blueprint for funk music, and has been extensively sampled by hip-hop musicians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several more essential funk releases followed in quick succession, including \u201cGive It Up or Turnit A Loose,\u201d \u201cLicking Stick \u2013 Licking Stick,\u201d \u201cFunky Drummer,\u201d \u201cAin\u2019t It Funky, \u201cI Got The Feeling,\u201d and \u201cMother Popcorn.\u201d The run culminated in, arguably, the greatest and most famous funk track of all time, \u201cGet Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine;\u201d released in early 1970.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like on \u201cCold Sweat,\u201d Brown\u2019s funk tracks in the late-sixties and early-seventies featured music stripped down to its bare bones, with all focus on the rhythm, and other instruments playing interlocking, repetitive patterns. Rhythmic influences include New Orleans funk, as well as Afro-Cuban and African rhythms. Brown\u2019s innovation of putting the emphasis on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the one<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was foundational to the rhythm, and freed up space for the band to be creative and add more heavily syncopated accents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE HEYDAY OF FUNK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of Brown\u2019s late sixties and early seventies recordings would become enormously influential in later decades, and still are today. \u201cFunky Drummer\u201d in particular has become one of the most sampled pieces of music of all time. The drum break, played by Clyde Stubbefield, is often seen as foundational to the hip-hop genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cFunky Drummer\u201d drum break has been used by countless hiphop acts, including Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Kanye West, and even pop artists like George Michael, Britney Spears, Ed Sheeran, and thousands of others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it\u2019s easy to say Brown\u2019s influence reached far into the future, his recordings had an immediate impact on his contemporaries. Funk became a separate genre in the US within months of Brown releasing his ground-breaking funk tracks in the late sixties. Many funk bands emerged, among them: Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, Booker T. &amp; the M.G.s, and The Pacemakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown\u2019s new band, after March 1970, contained two members from The Pacemakers, brothers William Earl \u201cBootsy\u201d Collins on bass and Phelps \u201cCatfish\u201d Collins on guitar. Both Collins brothers would go on to play crucial roles in one of the greatest funk ensembles of all time, Parliament-Funkadelic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown\u2019s new band recorded \u201cGet Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine\u201d on April 25, 1970. They also recorded classic funk tracks like \u201cSuper Bad,\u201d \u201cSoul Power,\u201d and \u201cTalkin\u2019 Loud and Sayin&#8217; Nothing;\u201d all of which have been frequently sampled since. The 1970 double album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex Machine, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is widely regarded as one of Brown\u2019s most important albums.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He further developed his funk style on his 1971 album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hot Pants, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which was his first for Polydor Records. This process continued through 1972 with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There It Is <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get On The Good Foot. The Payback, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released in December 1973, is regarded as one of Brown\u2019s most coherent studio albums, and was rewarded with a number one position on the US R&amp;B album charts. The title track has, again, been widely sampled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next up was a double album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hell, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made with arranger David Matthews, and released in June, 1974. It spawned two number one hit singles, \u201cMy Thang\u201d and \u201cPapa Don\u2019t Take No Mess.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reality <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was released in 1974 as well, but critics began to notice a lack of musical progression in Brown\u2019s music over the past couple of years. There also was a decline in the chart positions of his songs and albums. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reality<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> did, however, contain the popular track \u201cFunky President (People It&#8217;s Bad),\u201d which was widely sampled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTEMPORARY SOUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the mid-seventies, Brown was dealing with multiple issues. His support for Richard Nixon during the presidential campaign of 1972 had cost him a large part of his black audience. His income was declining as a result, and to compound the problem, the IRS began chasing him for tax payments in 1973. All this led to the collapse of his businesses a few years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On an artistic level, Brown seemed unsure where to go next. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex Machine Today, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released in 1975, was a rather obvious attempt to both revive the good old days and connect with the disco trend of the day, and it flopped. Brown\u2019s next album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get Up Offa That Thing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, released in 1976, did better, and the title track was arguably his last hit in his own funk style.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown did enjoy a few more hits in the late seventies, including the ballad \u201cKiss in \u201877\u201d and the disco-influenced \u201cIt\u2019s Too Funky In Here.\u201d The latter appeared on an album called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Original Disco Man, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released in 1979. It was characterized by a contemporary sound, with synthesizers as well as a modern mix and production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown left Polydor in 1981, blaming the record company for the lack of success of his records. During the final 25 years of his life, Brown released another ten albums. Like those found in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Original Disco Man, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">many of the tracks in Brown\u2019s later albums were written and produced for him by others, which dramatically changed the feel of his music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown enjoyed a major hit in 1985 with the song\u00a0 \u201cLiving In America,\u201d from his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gravity <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album, which was released in 1986. It earned Brown a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&amp;B Song and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&amp;B Vocal Performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>CULTURAL FORCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the end of the eighties, Brown\u2019s darker side caught up with him, when he was arrested for assault, and on drugs and weapons charges. He spent nearly three years in prison, and was released in February 1991. There also were several civil suits for sexual harassment, as well as arrests for domestic violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After his release from prison, Brown grew more and more into the role of living legend. Brown\u2019s last television appearance occurred with his induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, in November 2006. He died on December 25<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2006.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contributions James Brown made to the world of music are so enormous, that they are hard to overstate. Funk has become a dominant music genre, and he played a part in both breaking down racial segregation and instilling pride in the African-American community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown also received many prizes, awards, and honors\u2014including an\u00a0 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 1992, and a Kennedy Center Honor. 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