#8 Papa don’t take no mess – James Brown
James Brown was a game changer, he brought black music into the charts and later in his carreer also became a political force too. His personal life was a rollercoaster, but his music remained solid, mainly sue to his amazing band including Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley (who i saw in Leeds once). This is probably the funkiset song of all time. The drumming by John “Jabo” Starks is simply amazing. Jabo has been the unsung hero on many famous sampled songs, without a good drummer in funk, you were nothing – see http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/John_Jabo_Starks.html for more on Jabo.
Live version…
My blurb about #mytop30 …
I now have 15,906 songs in my iTunes collection. In my defence I am an ex-DJ, honest! So on a long train journey i started to add my favourites to a playlist. I was aiming to find my top 5, but ended up with my top 30.
Whats your top 5/10/20/30?
