Soul Connection (1978) | The James Brown Story

James Brown

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brother number one mr. dynamite The Godfather of Soul, the minister of super heavy funk, has always been a fan of his appearance. There was a time when his entourage of dressers, makeup artists, managers and bodyguards numbered in the dozens. His elaborate hairstyle had so many waves in his hair that people get seasick has always played an important role in presenting its well-groomed image to the general public. Braun's entourage is now more modest, but his 500 custom-made stage costumes and 2,000 pairs of shoes have been carefully preserved. You know, I've put away all my stuff. in my uniforms, all my shoes, everything I have to do on stage, even my speeches.

I'm going to do a James Brown Museum because I want people to know it and little kids, if they get the chance to do it, they already feel it. had the opportunity to do it said they have someone around to look at unfortunate for black children they don't have anyone white children can look at George Washington they can look around Lincoln they can look at Kennedy's Johnsons they can look at everyone and when I show up I have Superman and Hopalong Cassidy and they were white people, not enough for the color to bother me, but the black kid has to see things with his own eyes, yeah, he thinks he looks like him, like God made the man his own. own creation in his own image so that man feels that he can do it good morning augustus 521 from WR DW radio the only

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This morning the meteorologist says it needs to be another warm day today with a high in the mid 90's and a low tonight near 70 right now outside we have partly cloudy skies 74 degrees it's time for your wife to rush the finished product in concert or on the cover of a record shows Brown as he wants the world to see him the image arranging the man's masks, but what about the musician? How do you get ideas from him? How does he go about making his records in the studio or in the pool room? Brown no longer has to act and the mask loses a bit of technical sophistication.

It's strange for him from the first days, it became clear that the feeling mattered more than the quality of the sound, oh God, oh yeah, Mike with that really monotonous sound he had in the summer and, uh, I have half a day that broke , you know the way he was doing it 'cause he plays that way but he plays, everyone doesn't come out, but for some reason I'm not hearing that funk sound, the drums, they play it, but it doesn't come out, yeah, no, no, It's not happening first. I understand something that is stay with me, it lets me know that this has happened, then I relate it to the people, the movement of the people, the same rhythm of people talking and moving and where you're going and then I'll take that and make a full production.

Starting There's one last thing about my album. I can take my band. I can take a band and put it together. You get the sound of James Brown and even better than me. 10 years, they can't do it themselves and I can do it in 30 or 40. minutes with a new band, anyone who can play and no instrument, long enough to keep playing what I tell them because I'm very forceful, keep driving. Hey, I hate to say this, but you stayed until you got a scream from the future of James Brown. The shirt has a picture of soul brother number one on the first one and it's great, buy one today for only four dollars at Jack Levine's 1825 North Monroe Street Augusta, born in this cabin about 20 miles north of Augusta Georgia James Brown fought to his 20s of poverty-stricken family life I'd miss a glimpse of that time, let's just say Brown was a small, unattractive boy with an aggressive need to prove himself, surviving was the first lesson he learned to learn how to bake, shine dancing shoes, even to find the fuel to keep warm during The winter months they were a problem child, very bad big time, he is medium and slow and we didn't have cones, so we collected coca, he is cold, he bites his stages fresh, cold buns a couple of times and then it turns into coke.

It turns into clinker, that's why I have reduced and crumbled a lot of what we received when it was coke and that means that it has the possibility of burning again and that is the only thing we had to keep us warm. I had to pick it up every day from the railway. songs and he used to sing a lot when he used cocaine. He made up songs. Those were my difficult days. I didn't really tap dance well. I always say that he would tap dance, but we are in the middle. Doing corcoba dancing, tap dances with heels and toes are toes, I tap dance, an insect dance for cavalry.

I rent for five dollars a month and I had to dance with my knees for the soldiers, and they would throw me quarters and nickels to see me dance and I pick it up and get five or ten dollars and take it home and give it to me. great aunt and they will pay the rent I clean shoes I pick up coke bottles I sold bottle caps I used to work on the farm I used to sell eyes deliver eyes I used to grade yards Wrigley I ran errands and the bad thing about that when I was a kid of about seven I went out and scammed men for women was that they practiced prostitution at the age of 17 in 1950 James Brown and first prize in a singing contest in Augusta is now a dilapidated Lennox theater in 1952 appeared in Macon Georgia with a small group called The Famous Flames.

Their first big hit together, recorded and released by King Records in 1956, was the gospel-oriented number, Please Please, Please. His only promotional photograph at that time described the dark-skinned teenager as a tough young man from the countryside looking for credibility and a better hairstyle. Please, I wrote it. There was a song at one point that we sang for five years or so before recording it. The Man Who Came Out that song was a hit. My song has that presence. If my songs are going to get there, get them read. So they don't grow on people. Let us begin.

I can tell when I got it. Do you think about peace? Peace. please like the trailer these songs that made you these songs that maybe were please please please please and after that they became songs like Try me, they were very strong the song that reached everyone was Dad has a new bag but then they're gone I came back and picked it up, please, please, it's still strong material, the success of this song, the first in a long series, ensured that the grainy, tanned gospel voice became a fixture on radio stations from all the southern states, injecting some of the hysteria of revivalist song into critical development. of Rhythm and Blues for more than 20 years, the theatrical layers of please-please-please have been the trademarks of a James Brown show.

We tried to stay away from that a lot because we thought it was repetitive, but the feeling is never that of the soul of the teacher. I never knew about the masters what is like this for me it is my life it was my chance it was my knock on the door it was my only guarantee I had and there is still no guarantee then the spiritual soul is true then it was realism survival SOLAS but I would do it It's nothing , the JBs give a big thumbs up to Jeffy's and a baby because man makes toys, but man doesn't make everything again.

Do you know that the man earns money? I bet someone, someone, someone, help me, let me, someone, get me someone. You do it, someone two years ago 63 and 64 used to sing a song that sounds like this, Jimmy, pretty good. I will fight you on stage. They have never seen a black man do this act, so dear, so precise against you. class when I say class I mean understanding the system, not finding things to drink until I get a Mars, not having bottles of whiskey and things in my restaurant that entertain us a lot and I have many jobs around my stable.

I try to dress everyone by last name, I use the words sir and all that would be projected even on the stage they needed. I was trying to come from a different kind of thing. Mike was all revolutionary. I did that Sullivan show and I couldn't believe it. I received so much applause at the dress rehearsal until they didn't know whether to keep the dress rehearsal as a family again. He was shooting me. I knew what I had and I wouldn't compromise anything, but they left me just the way I wanted. I was convinced that what people wanted and I wouldn't do it.

Beginning in 1963, James Brown's live-at-the-Apollo album remained in the top 100 of the billboards for sixty-six weeks, even achieving unprecedented success for the hardcore rhythm and blues that Brown had built. a ban on regular circulation, an increasingly tight performance and, indeed, a complete overhaul with members of the company acting as opening acts, they constantly toured throughout the United States playing: increasingly larger and more ecstatic all-black audiences, the

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review was the toughest, the loudest, the most together also the most disciplined since fluffy notes or for the appearance of any musician were penalized with fines of 50 dollars and in front of everyone the hardest working man in show business James Brown singer and extraordinary dancer, always the most acrobatic, always the most controlled and if he is He himself is believed to be the inventor of the latest disco moves.

You know, most responded that they were pushing James back in one way or another. Do you see James? But we are going to lose, probably one of the most popular dances in the world. I see this is it. doing and I'll go straight to the dancers to give you a look at Boogaloo chicken, the old days, running and walking on a camel. I did this on Tammy's robot, Soul Train. Oh hey, WR DW's Fleetwood Mac super soul sound. the connection of your soul, love, master, with a hook until 10 o'clock this morning, we are at 12 of six right now, China's rising super Shan radio station, as spectacular as your review is , however, dominates his performances, as bronze fortune as he was and remains any modern musician. founded on his record selling tours and disk jockeys providing the essential promotion for the records and Brown makes many records with more than 60 albums and more than 120 singles since 1963, the James brand's formula for success shifted from vocal harmony to the driving rhythm, simple and repetitive voices. were laid over compulsive rhythmic riffs and Brown in his band began to treat each instrument as if it were a drum, the beach of new brand bags was the wave of the future that would be repeated in black music around the world.

Middletown down, yeah, yeah, now. I'm not going to play death no, I'm not going to play everywhere. I'm not going to play to the death. I'm not going to play on December 10 anywhere. Brown is one of the few artists who personally controls his own fortune. He is almost tyrannical. The approach to his business affairs has shown that in the future a black artist would never limit himself to singing and dancing for the white market in 1969, the year in which the National Business League of the United States named him businessman of the year in which he was quoted as earning $8 per minute. owns a fleet of 30 cars private jets real estate and radio stations cash money order cash such public acquisition of wealth in the United States has inevitably brought Brown into contact with politics yes, it was in the late 1960s that he encouraged the black businesses to entertain the troops in Vietnam dined with LBJ at the White House, urged ghetto youth to distrust violence, and campaigned for Hubert Humphrey and that's what 5,000 is worth, so I'm going to end now making a few, just throw them good and we'll see how it works. sponsor first I would like to say that the bag man, one holy leap and make your own decision, number one in the black community, low income area, we need a house, so we like to see it in the trunk, like I have seen it when I was a child, what do you have to turn around and beg to death like I feel?

No number three we need a full bench so we can get more the back is available and they come in a black community we don't want to go downtown number three we need hotels behind the music let's go downtown and stay in the white community for the other thing where we will enjoy it, give me something like that. I at James Brown also supported dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign delivered his televised speech on the Internet after Dr. King's assassination was said to be directly responsible for preventing street riots and it was at this time that Brown was referred to as the soul singer who could stop an American revolution.

Martin Luther King's last speech, the sideline speech was given the day before he died now. We have some tough days ahead of us, but I don't really care now because I've been to the top of the mountain as much as anyone. I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but that doesn't worry me right now. I just want to do God's will and he allowed me to go up the mountain and I look and see the promised land. I received a call from Washington DC after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King and I wanted him to come and talk to people and try to get them off the streets and calm them down.

I said I could think very clearly. I wanted to see thepeople get off the streets. I wanted to calm down. I did not do it. I don't want to see them or blush and lose lives, but I still shared the same convictions of the people on the streets because I understood why they were fighting now, why they are still fighting, it's not so much on the streets today. as it is in court, but it is still there. Black power will one day be the power of the people, but until a black man recovers, there is still a fight, but music is the Browns' politics and now he considers himself a global artist.

Mexico, your closest foreign country is. One of his favorite territories, the sound effects could be electric when he burned in the stone bullrings. Oh sad, it's cold in both Mexico and Africa. He combines his undoubted popularity with his appeal to a race of people who at one time were the victims of slavery come on go go go go go Brown whose features have a curious Aztec quality was born under the astrological sign of Taurus on his index finger he brandishes a huge ring silver that represents the head and horns of a bull. Think about Oh, how do you see yourself in relation to Africa and the African people?

Well, I see myself as some kind of hero since I came from the earth to where I am today and I think I can be a model man for my brothers and sisters in Africa and I think I can be a model man for a date because I think I am a symbol of what he would like to see be a success the last time I was there. In Avatar I saw people getting closer to reality, becoming more conscious, becoming more educated, you know, with this education, my race of people, oh, we don't lose our primitive cells, I have roots in Africa, it's the world of brands, he He was one of the first popular black artists. make the pilgrimage to West Africa to return to his roots, the commercial benefits of building bridges to Africa are obvious, but even in Senegal, a French-speaking country, and Brown does not speak French, he is certain that he will return home and make the obligatory visit. to gorée island, embarkation point for thousands of american slaves.

Brown sees how connections can be made. The soul has become a very public code understood by black people on both sides of the Atlantic and James Brown is the codebreaker who brings from America what he and his brothers have made of their African heritage and he calls it Senegal , so Seneca is sweet again with vinegar. Seneca again said yes, after the Portuguese came the Dutch and after the verse, that island was not among the early times between the British and the French until the French took this island from 1818 to 1960, but the Dutch built many strong here, which has been many times, you have the Round House behind you, it was something we should give to your puma lady and Captain Gonca that the Portuguese discovered. this island in 1444 in Catalan just left in 1580 in Mylapore Portuguese, they go $0.80 you ladies deftly pass the conical street of tea and soft drinks Portuguese national exhibition and during the time of slavery there were many slave houses throughout the island because of the slavers, the swamp and the people.

They are selling this left, there were about one hundred and eighteen the liberated population in the middle of this as a free people here there were about twelve hundred, go a little, so the transit circuit is important, Lewis Africa and this island of Garre was the most important transit center of all. around West Africa, yeah, yeah, yeah, it feels so good, I don't want to, no, you