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James Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "Mr. Dynamite", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business", "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk", "Godfather of Soul", "King of Soul", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that…
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Born 3 May 1933 · Died 25 December 2006 · Q5950
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2026· 35 entries
Ad-hoc-news.de: James Brown tribute shows bring his funk to Germany in 2026 - Ad-hoc-news.de
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AmateurGolf.com: James Brown leads amateur sweep of Kentucky Senior Open Super Senior Division
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The Augusta Press: James Brown Boulevard lane closed for utility work
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Legacy obituary: James Brown Obituary (2026) - Alton, MO - Clary Funeral Home - Alton
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EIN Presswire: State Auditor James Brown Joins Land Board Colleagues in Approving More Than $400,000 in New Revenue for Montana Schools at August Meeting
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Published video “Tom Holland could never....”.
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WRDW: Underground pipe work closes part of James Brown Boulevard
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The Virginian-Pilot: James Brown Obituary | August 16, 2026 | - The Virginian-Pilot
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Far Out Magazine: The guitarist who could play “anything”, according to James Brown: “That’s what made him great”
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Weirton Daily Times: JAMES BROWN II -
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RadarOnline: Aretha Franklin Allegedly Admitted to Affair With James Brown Before Death
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Mshale: James Brown - SuperBad (Rodean Edit) Barcelona - Real Madrid (VsP1OyZHpp)
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Legacy obituary: James H. Brown Obituary (1937 - 2026) - Dublin, OH - LINK nky
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Ad-hoc-news.de: James Brown and the Legacy of Soul, Funk and Pop - Ad-hoc-news.de
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Tribute Archive: DEACON WILLIE JAMES BROWN Obituary | Thomson Funeral System | Wrens, GA
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Tribute Archive: DEA CON WILLIE JAMES BROWN Obituary | Thomson Funeral System | Wrens, GA
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Mshale: James Brown Super Bad Line Dance Mortal Kombat 1 (VC3o9iKaEm)
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Singersroom.com: 10 Best James Brown Songs of All Time
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Legacy obituary: James Thomas Brown Obituary (2026) - Pekin, IN - Hughes-Taylor Funeral Home - Pekin
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CNA: Prof James Brown explains the Kuril Islands territorial dispute between Japan and Russia
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Entertainment.ie: Watch: Trailer for new James Brown film 'Get On Up' is funkilicious
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Legacy obituary: Delbert James Brown Obituary (2026) - Crab Orchard, KY - McKnight Funeral Home Inc
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BVM Sports: BKFC Parts Ways with James Brown: Former Featherweight Contender Gears Up for Future
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GhanaSoccernet: Time constraint forced Asante Kotoko to scrap overseas pre-season plans – Board chairman James Brown
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Published video “James Brown - Its A Mans Mans Mans World 🌎”.
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Published video “James Brown: One of the greatest LIVE performers of all time!!”.
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Published video “James Brown and his soulful vocals”.
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Published video “James Brown in 4k 🤩 Which famous performance do you wish you were in the room for?”.
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Published video “James Brown - Usher paid tribute to James Brown at the opening of the African American Museum”.
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Published video “The biggest prodigies of James Brown”.
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Published video “James Brown - A legendary moment in time 🙌”.
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Published video “James Brown aka Mr. Please Please Please 🙏✨ Which one matched the best?”.
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Published video “How are you celebrating America's 250? Happy 4th of July!”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Blowball”.
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2013· 1 entry
As an artist and then in 2017 as a songwriter
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2006· 5 entries
Died 2006-12-25.
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At The Roundhouse, supported by The Zutons, with special appearances from Max Beesley and Sugababes
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As headliner at the Festival of the Golden Gate (Foggfest) on the Great Meadow at Fort Mason
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Brown continued his Seven Decades of Funk World Tour
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Included a record crowd of 80,000 people
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2005· 1 entry
Where he performed a duet with British pop star Will Young on "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"
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2004· 1 entry
Brown opened for the Red Hot Chili Peppers at several Hyde Park concerts in London
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2003· 2 entries
Brown participated in the PBS American Masters television documentary James Brown: Soul Survivor, which was directed by Jeremy Marre
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Brown was the featured attraction of a Washington, D
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “The Next Step”.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “James Brown's wife once tried to beat misdemeanor charges by claiming she was entitled to diplomatic immunity for being married to a musical "ambassador."” True.
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Brown appeared in Undercover Brother, playing himself
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Brown advised that most of the money in his estate go into creating the I Feel Good, Inc
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “The Merry Christmas Album”.
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When being interviewed by Rolling Stone, the magazine asked him to name a hero in the 20th century
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “I’m Back”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Soul Jubilee”.
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1995· 1 entry
Brown returned to the Apollo and recorded Live at the Apollo 1995
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Soul Pride: 1960-1969”.
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1992· 5 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1992).
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Released album “Universal James”.
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Released album “The Wonderful World of James Brown”.
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Released album “The Greatest Hits of the Fourth Decade”.
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Released album “Spank”.
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1991· 11 entries
Released album “Sex Machine: The Very Best of James Brown”.
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Released album “20 All‐Time Greatest Hits!”.
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James Brown and a star-filled line up performed before a crowd at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles for a live pay-per-view at-home audience
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Released album “Star Time”.
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Released album “I Feel Good”.
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Released album “Live, Volume 1”.
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Released album “James Brown 1956-1976”.
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Released album “James Brown Is Back”.
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Released album “Love Over-Due”.
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Brown appeared on rapper MC Hammer's video for "Too Legit to Quit"
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Released album “James Brown”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Dance Machine”.
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Released album “Messing With the Blues”.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “Great Hits / Great Performances”.
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Released album “Duets”.
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Released album “At His Best”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1988· 5 entries
Released album “Motherlode”.
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Released album “I’m Real”.
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Brown worked with the production team Full Force on the new jack swing-influenced I'm Real
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Released album “Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag”.
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Released album “Soul Brother Number One”.
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1987· 3 entries
Brown won the Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Living in America"
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Released album “Greatest Hits Live”.
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Released album “CD of JB II: Cold Sweat & Other Soul Classics”.
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Gravity”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986).
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Released album “In the Jungle Groove”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “Dead on the Heavy Funk: 1974-76”.
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Released album “The CD of JB: Sex Machine & Other Soul Classics”.
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1984· 7 entries
Teamed with rap musician Afrika Bambaataa on the song "Unity"
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Released album “Starportrait James Brown”.
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Released album “The James Brown Story: Doing It to Death 1970-73”.
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Released album “Roots of a Revolution”.
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Released album “The James Brown Story: Ain’t That a Groove 1966–1969”.
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"Now 'Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud' has done more for the black race than any other record, but if I had my choice, I wouldn't have done it, because I don't like defining anyone by race
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Released album “The Federal Years, Part 2”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Bring It On!”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Historia de la música rock - 29”.
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Nine”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Nonstop!”.
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Released album “James Brown (La grande storia del rock)”.
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “People”.
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Released album “Soul Syndrome”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “The Original Disco Man”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Take a Look at Those Cakes”.
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Released album “Jam 1980’s”.
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “Mutha’s Nature”.
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Released album “Solid Gold”.
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Released album “The Best of James Brown”.
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1976· 4 entries
Released album “Bodyheat”.
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Released album “Hot”.
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And the disco-oriented "It's Too Funky in Here" in 1979 reaching the R&B Top 15 and the ballad "Kiss in '77" reaching the Top 20
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Released album “Get Up Offa That Thing”.
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1975· 3 entries
Released album “Sex Machine Today”.
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Released album “Everybody’s Doin’ the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump”.
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Released album “The Greatest Soul Sensation”.
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1974· 3 entries
With "My Thang" and "Papa Don't Take No Mess"
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Released album “Reality”.
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Released album “Hell”.
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1973· 5 entries
Released album “The Payback”.
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Released album “Soul Classics, Volume II”.
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Also faced problems with the IRS for failure to pay back taxes, charging he hadn't paid upwards of $4
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Brown provided the score for the blaxploitation film Black Caesar
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As he failed to land a number-one R&B single that year
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “Get on the Good Foot”.
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Released album “There It Is”.
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Released album “Soul Classics”.
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1971· 6 entries
Released album “Sho Is Funky Down Here”.
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Brown began recording for Polydor Records in a deal with Starday-King Records which included music publishing and Brown's back catalog
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Began touring Africa, including Zambia and Nigeria
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Sharpton would in fact become a major protege of Brown, who convinced him to be identified as "Al Sharpton" rather than "Alfred Sharpton" and who Sharpton also became the tour manager of from 1973 from 1980, during this
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Released album “Once Upon a Time”.
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Released album “Hot Pants”.
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1970· 6 entries
Released album “It’s a New Day - Let a Man Come In”.
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Released album “Soul on Top”.
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Released album “Hey America”.
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Released album “Ain’t It Funky”.
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Released album “Mr. Dynamite”.
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In response to some black leaders for not being outspoken enough, he recorded "Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved" and "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing"
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1969· 5 entries
Released album “It’s a Mother”.
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Released album “The Popcorn”.
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Released album “Gettin’ Down to It”.
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Released album “Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud”.
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Brown recorded two more songs of social commentary, "World" and "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing", the latter song pleading for equal opportunity and self-reliance rather than entitlement
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1968· 9 entries
Released album “A Soulful Christmas”.
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Released album “I Got the Feelin’”.
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A day after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
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Released album “Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things”.
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Released album “Presents His Show of Tomorrow”.
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And "Funky Drummer", recorded in 1969, featured a more developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style, with the horn section, guitars, bass and drums meshed together in intricate rhythmic patterns based on multiple interlo
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In response to a growing urge of anti-war advocacy during the Vietnam War, Brown recorded the song, "America Is My Home"
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Recorded a number of funk-oriented tracks with the Dapps, a white Cincinnati band, including the hit "I Can't Stand Myself"
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James Brown endorsed Hubert Humphrey
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “James Brown Plays the Real Thing”.
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Released album “James Brown Sings Raw Soul”.
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Released album “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World”.
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1966· 4 entries
Released album “James Brown Plays New Breed”.
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Released album “Handful of Soul”.
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Released album “I Got You (I Feel Good)”.
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Released album “James Brown and His Famous Flames Sing Christmas Songs”.
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1965· 5 entries
Released album “James Brown Plays James Brown: Yesterday and Today”.
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Brown released his song "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", which became his first top-ten pop hit and won him his first Grammy Award
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Released album “Sings Out of Sight”.
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Released album “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”.
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Issued "I Got You", which became his second single in a row to reach number one on the R&B chart and top ten on the pop chart
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “Showtime”.
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Seeking bigger commercial success, Brown and Bobby Byrd formed the production company, Fair Deal, linking the operation to the Mercury imprint, Smash Records
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Released album “Grits & Soul”.
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “Prisoner of Love”.
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Brown scored his first top 20 pop hit with his rendition of the standard "Prisoner of Love"
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1962· 3 entries
Brown financed a live recording of a performance at the Apollo and convinced Syd Nathan to release the album, despite Nathan's belief that no one would buy a live album due to the fact that Brown's singles had already be
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In 1962, Tammi Terrell joined the James Brown Revue.
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Brown and his band scored a hit with their cover of the instrumental "Night Train", becoming a top five R&B single
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “James Browns Presents His Band & Five Other Great Artists”.
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Released album “Night Train”.
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Released two albums with the James Brown Band earning second billing
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1960· 2 entries
Brown began multi-tasking in the recording studio involving himself, his singing group, the Famous Flames, and his band, a separate entity from the Flames, sometimes named the James Brown Orchestra or the James Brown Ban
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The band released the top ten R&B hit "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, billed under the pseudonym "Nat Kendrick & the Swans" due to label issues
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1959· 1 entry
Opening for Brown's idol, Little Willie John
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1957· 2 entries
The original Flames broke up, after Bart changed the name of the group to "James Brown and The Famous Flames"
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Brown replaced Clint Brantley as manager and hired Ben Bart, chief of Universal Attractions Agency
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1955· 1 entry
The group contacted Little Richard while performing in Macon
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1954· 1 entry
Having evolved from the Gospel Starlighters, an a cappella gospel group, to the Avons, an R&B group
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1944· 1 entry
Winning the show after singing the ballad "So Long"
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1933· 2 entries
In a small wooden shack located in Barnwell, South Carolina, to a 16-year-old young American Black woman named Susie (née Behling; 1916–2004), and 21-year-old American Black and Native-American Joseph Gardner Brown (1912
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Born 1933-05-03.
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