Soul on Top

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Soul on Top
Soul on Top cover
Studio album by James Brown
Released 1970
Recorded November 10 and 11, 1969
Genre Soul/Jazz
Length 51:57 (2004 reissue)
Label King/Verve (2004 reissue)
Producer James Brown
Professional reviews

Soul on Top is an album by James Brown. Brown and saxophonist Maceo Parker worked with arranger/conductor Oliver Nelson to record a big band, funk and jazz vocal album. It was recorded with Louie Bellson and his 18-piece jazz orchestra at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, California in November 1969, and features jazz standards, show tunes, and middle of the road hits, as well as a new arrangement of Brown's funk hit "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "That's My Desire" (Helmy Kressa, Carroll Loveday)
  2. "Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams)
  3. "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
  4. "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" (James Brown, Betty Jean Newsome)
  5. "The Man In The Glass" (Bud Hobgood)
  6. "It's Magic" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
  7. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill)
  8. "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
  9. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim)
  10. "I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)" (Louie Bellson)
  11. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (Brown)
  12. "There Was A Time" (2004 reissue only) (Brown, Hobgood)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

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