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"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is a song written and performed by James Brown. Released as an edited two-part single in 1978, it charted #52...

Take a Look at Those Cakes is a studio album by the American musician James Brown. It was released in December 1978 by Polydor Records. It was arranged...

and performed on all tracks for the album, with assistance from Charles Bobbit and Fred Wesley. Brown's second effort at score composure was in 1973 when...

(1976) Bodyheat (1976) Mutha's Nature (1977) Jam 1980's (1978) Take a Look at Those Cakes (1978) The Original Disco Man (1979) People (1980) Soul Syndrome...

the number-one spot for eight weeks. Brown's screams at the beginning and end of the song have been sampled a number of times for hip hop and dance songs...

myself and was feeling depressed. I looked out at all those people sitting there, and because I was depressed they looked depressed. I yelled, "Get up offa...

Maschwitz wrote the song under his pen name, Holt Marvell, at the behest of Joan Carr for a late-evening revue broadcast by the BBC. The copyright was...

Carolina. According to Etta James, Brown and his group came up with the idea for their first song, because Brown "used to carry around an old tattered napkin...

Stubblefield did not receive a songwriter credit for "Funky Drummer", he received no royalties for the sampling. He told The New York Times in 2011:...

1965. Brown had recorded singles for Bethlehem and Ember Records alternatively. Hard Hits (1994; VHS only) Live at The House of Blues (1999) James Brown:...

Although credited to Fleecie Moore, his wife at the time, Jordan is the actual songwriter. The song was a hit for Jordan as well as several other musicians...

Ten, peaking at number eight, and was a number-one R&B hit, topping the charts for eight weeks. It won Brown his first Grammy Award, for Best Rhythm &...

draws on earlier blues songs and has inspired popular versions, including those by Ray Charles, Rufus and Carla, and James Brown, which reached the record...

the 2007 CBS television special My Night at the Grammys. Later, in 2021, she performed the song for two nights at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel...

a single in 1969, peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July that year, remaining in the runner-up position for three weeks. "Spinning Wheel"...

he had been given by a patron at the Million Dollar Palms, a Florida nightclub. After Roach crafted a guitar part for "Try Me", Brown and the Flames...

Woman". "Think (About It)" has been sampled in over 3000 songs; some of those songs are: Cookie Crew - "Females" (1987) Guy - "Teddy's Jam" (12") (1987)...

Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. They recorded the medley for a BBC Light Programme on July 16, 1963, released in 1994 on Live at the BBC...

recreated in cover versions by other performers. Trombonist Buddy Morrow, for example, played Forrest's solo on trombone on a 1953 recording of the song...

revenge he plans to take against a man who betrayed him. The song is notable for its sparse, open arrangement and its use of wah-wah guitar – a relative rarity...