
Episode 137: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” by James Brown
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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After the tammy show, mick jagger would completely change his attitude to performing and spend the rest of his career trying to imitate brown's style. He was unsuccessful in this, but still came close enough that hes still regarded as one of the great front men. In early 19 65, a court reached a ruling, yes, brown wasn't signed as a musician to king records. So he was perfectly within his rights to record with smash records as an instrumentalist. But brown was signed to king records as a singer, so he was obliged to record vocal tacts for them, and only for them. Until his contract with smash lapsed, he had to record twice as much material
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