
Episode 137: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” by James Brown
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Story of James Brown
The first commercial success that brown had after these line up changes was not with the famous flames, or even under his own name. The story goes that sid nathan, the owner of king records, didn't like the idea because he thought that the r and b audience at this point, only wanted vocal tracts. And also because brown's band had previously released an instrumental which hadn't sold. That made the r an b top ten. i've seen reports that brown and his band even toured briefly as nat kendrick and the swans before syd nathan realized his mistake. It seems that at every point in brown's career, for the first decade, Brown would come up with
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