James Brown

From Wikipedia

James Joseph Brown (natu 3 di maiu, 1933) è nu cantanti afru-miricanu chi è canusciutu comu unu dî cchiù nfruenti pirsunnaggi dâ mùsica pupuliar dû sèculu XX. Era cantanti, cumpusaturi e riggista dî dischi, assai abbunanti pi tutti quanti, e era forza primaria a rispettu dî gènira di mùsica gospel, rhythm and blues, mùsica soul e mùsica funk, cu st'ùrtimu era iddu chi lu mmintau. Sparti di chissu, havi lassatu la sò marca supra l'autri gènira musicalo, p'asempiu, rock and roll, jazz, reggae, disco, mùsic alittrònica, e puru hip-hop.

[cancia] Canzuni di successu

Ssi canzuni ccasutta si junceru o lu Billboard Hot 100 o lu Billboard Top R&B Singles charts.

1956: "Please, Please, Please" (R&B #5)
1959: "Try Me" (R&B #1, US #48)
1960: "Think" (R&B #7, US #33)
1961: "Baby, You're Right" (R&B #2, US #49)
1961: "Bewildered" (R&B #8, US #40)
1961: "I Don't Mind" (R&B #4, US #47)
1962: "Lost Someone" (R&B #2, US #48)
1962: "Night Train" (R&B #5, US #35)
1963: "Every Beat of My Heart" (US #99)
1963: "Prisoner of Love" (R&B #6, US #18)
1965: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" - Part I (R&B #1, US #8)
1965: "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (R&B #1, US #3)
1966: "Ain't That a Groove" Pts. 1 & 2 (R&B #6, US #42)
1966: "Don't Be A Drop-Out" (R&B #4, US #50)
1966: "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" (R&B #1, US #8)
1966: "Sweet Little Baby Boy" - Part 1 (US #8)
1967: "Cold Sweat" - Part 1 (R&B #1, US #7)
1967: "Let Yourself Go" (R&B #5, US #46)
1968: "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)" (R&B #4, US #28)
1968: "I Got The Feelin'" (R&B #1, US #6)
1968: "Licking Stick - Licking Stick" - Part 1 (R&B #2, US #14)
1968: "Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" - Part 1 (R&B #1, US #10)
1968: "There Was A Time" (R&B #3, US #36)
1969: "Ain't It Funky Now" (R&B #3, US #24)
1969: "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" (R&B #1, US #15)
1969: "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)" (R&B #3, US #20)

1969: "Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn" - Part One (R&B #2, US #21)
1969: "Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me)" Part 1(R&B #1, US #11)
1970: "Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like A) Sex Machine" (Part 1)" (R&B #2, US #15)
1970: "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay" (US #7)
1970: "Super Bad" - Part 1 & Part 2 (R&B #1, US #13)
1971: "Escape-ism" - Part 1 (R&B #6, US #35)
1971: "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" - Pt. 1 (R&B #4, US #34)
1971: "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)" – Part 1 (R&B #1, US #15)
1971: "I'm A Greedy Man" - Part I (R&B #7, US #35)
1971: "Make It Funky" - Part 1 (R&B #1, US #22)
1971: "Soul Power" - Pt. 1 (R&B #3, US #29)
1972: "Get On The Good Foot" - Part 1 (R&B #1, US #18)
1972: "King Heroin" (R&B #6, US #40)
1972: "Talking Loud And Saying Nothing" - Part I (R&B #1, US #27)
1973: "Down And Out In New York City" (R&B #13, US #50)
1973: "I Got A Bag Of My Own" (R&B #3)
1973: "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" (R&B #6, US #50)
1974: "Funky President" (People It's Bad)" (R&B #4, US #44)
1974: "My Thang" (R&B #1, US #29)
1974: "Papa Don't Take No Mess" - Part I (R&B #1, US #31)
1974: "Stoned To The Bone" - Part 1 (R&B #4, US #58)
1974: "The Payback" - Part I (R&B #1, US #26)
1976: "Get Up Offa That Thing" (R&B #4, US #45)
1985: "Living in America (R&B #10, US #4)
1987: "How Do You Stop" (R&B #10)
1988: "I'm Real" (R&B #2)
1988: "Static, Pts. 1 & 2" (with Full Force) (R&B #5)

[cancia] Album

James Brown nun si didicau a prudùciri li album, e pi chissu addiventa difficili identificari li soi megghiu. Tuttvia, sti pròssimi quattru fannu parti dâ lista dî megghiu album di tuttu tempu (secunnu â rivista Rolling Stone).