Contents.Analysis 'Sex Machine' was one of the first songs Brown recorded with his new band,. In comparison with Brown's 1960s solo funk hits such as ', the band's inexperienced horn section plays a relatively minor part. Instead, the song centers on the insistent played by brothers and on and and on drums, along with the interplay between Brown and Byrd's vocals, which consist mostly of exhortations to 'get up / stay on the scene / like a sex machine'. During the song's final vocal passages Brown and Byrd started to sing the main hook of ' blues classic '.' The original single version of 'Sex Machine' — recorded, like many of Brown's hits, in just two takes — begins with a spoken dialogue between Brown and his band which was recreated with minor variations in live performances:Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing! That's right!
'Funky Drummer' is a song recorded by James Brown and his band. The recording's drum break, a freestyle-propulsive drumbeat devised by Clyde Stubblefield, complete with 10 hits and 2 cymbal lifts, is one of the most frequently sampled rhythmic breaks in hip hop and popular music.
Do it!) I want to get into it, man, you know? Yeah!) Like a, like a sex machine, man, (Yeah!) movin', groovin', doin' it, y'know? (Yeah!) Can I count it off? Alright!) One, two, three, four!
Personnel. James Brown – lead vocal, pianowith The JB's:. Clayton 'Chicken' Gunnells – trumpet. Darryl 'Hassan' Jamison – trumpet.
Robert McCollough – tenor saxophone. –, vocal. – guitar. – bass. – drumsChart positions Chart (1970)PeakpositionBelgium ( Flanders)4Netherlands 8Netherlands 7(Official Charts Company)32US Billboard2US15US17US17West Germany 29Other recordings 'Sex Machine Part I'byfrom the album'Sex Machine Part II'Released1975 ( 1975)FormatLength. James Brown. Ron Lenhoffcharting singles chronology'(1975)' Sex Machine Part I'(1975)'(1975)Brown would go on to re-record 'Sex Machine' several times in addition to the original single version:.
One was made in 1970 for his ostensibly all-live. It is over 10 minutes long and includes added and audience noise intended to conceal its studio origins. (A version of this recording without overdubs appears on the 1996 compilation.).
Another, which was released in 1975, features a new instrumental arrangement and lyrics aimed at audiences. Nearly 12 minutes long, it was released as a two-part single and appeared on the album Sex Machine Today. Though it was poorly reviewed — wrote that 'if you own another version of 'Sex Machine' you own a better one' — it charted no. 16 on the. In 1993, Brown sang another version that was released in collaboration with his sponsorship of Nissin's Miso Soup.'
Sex Machine' remained a staple of Brown's concert repertoire until the end of his career. Live performances of the song appear on the albums (1971), (1980), (1981), (1992),. Retrieved July 5, 2014. ^.
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