James Brown

Listen/Download – James Brown and the Famous Flames – Don’t Be a Drop-Out

Listen/Download – James Brown and the Famous Flames – Tell Me That You Love Me (Live)

 

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so then is the Funky16Corners Radio Show. We come to you each and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can also subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

I decided to close out the week with a little public service message from the Godfather of Soul.

James Brown released ‘Don’t Be a Drop-Out’ in 1966, and it was a Top 5 R&B hit (grazing the Pop Top 50).

Credited to James Brown and the Famous Flames, ‘Don’t Be a Drop Out’ is exactly what you’d imagine, that being a peppy, grooving ode to remaining in school until graduation.

Opening with horns, and then a guitar line that Bruce Springsteen would resurrect a few years later in the opening to ‘The E Street Shuffle’, JB raps to the kids about why you should stay in school.

The flipside of my copy (it was released with a couple of different flips) is a wild, poorly recorded (but still excellent) live version of ‘Tell Me That You Love Me’ (which would also appear on the 1967 ‘Raw Soul’ album) in which JB and the Flames explode.

Both sides very cool, and like every other James Brown 45, essential.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll catch you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

 

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