Soul on Top

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Soul on Top
Studio album by James Brown
Released 1970
Recorded November 10–11, 1969
Genre Soul, jazz
Length 51:57 (2004 reissue)
Label King/Verve (2004 reissue)
Producer James Brown
James Brown chronology

Ain't It Funky
(1970)		 Soul on Top
(1970)		 It’s a New Day - Let a Man Come In
(1970)

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".

The album was reissued in 2004 with one previously unreleased bonus track, a big band version of Brown's 1967 hit "There Was a Time", and new liner notes by jazz critic Will Friedwald.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "That's My Desire"  Helmy Kressa, Carroll Loveday 4:10
2. "Your Cheatin' Heart"  Hank Williams 2:59
3. "What Kind of Fool Am I?"  Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley 3:06
4. "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" (Unedited Version)James Brown, Betty Jean Newsome 6:40
5. "The Man in the Glass"  Bud Hobgood 5:56
6. "It's Magic"  Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 3:14
7. "September Song" (Unedited Version)Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill 5:02
8. "For Once in My Life" (Unedited Version)Ron Miller, Orlando Murden 4:43
9. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Unedited Version)Memphis Slim 4:28
10. "I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)"  Louie Bellson 3:46
11. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"  Brown 4:41
12. "There Was a Time" (2004 reissue only)Brown, Hobgood 3:04

Personnel

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "James Brown: Soul on Top > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
James Brown albums
Studio albums
  • Please Please Please
  • Try Me!
  • Think!
  • The Amazing James Brown
  • James Brown Presents His Band/Night Train
  • Shout and Shimmy
  • James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the USA
  • Prisoner of Love
  • Excitement - Mr. Dynamite
  • Showtime
  • The Unbeatable James Brown
  • Grits and Soul
  • Out of Sight
  • Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
  • I Got You (I Feel Good)
  • James Brown Plays James Brown Today and Yesterday
  • Mighty Instrumentals
  • James Brown Plays New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo)
  • It's a Man's Man's Man's World
  • James Brown Sings Christmas Songs
  • Handful of Soul
  • Sings Raw Soul
  • James Brown Plays the Real Thing
  • Cold Sweat
  • I Can't Stand Myself
  • I Got the Feeling
  • James Brown Sings Out of Sight
  • Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things
  • A Soulful Christmas
  • Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud
  • Gettin' Down to It
  • The Popcorn
  • It's a Mother
  • Ain't It Funky
  • Soul on Top
  • It's a New Day - Let a Man Come In
  • Hey America
  • Super Bad
  • Sho' Is Funky Down Here
  • Hot Pants
  • There It Is
  • Get on the Good Foot
  • Black Caesar
  • Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
  • The Payback
  • Hell
  • Reality
  • Sex Machine Today
  • Everybody's Doin' the Hustle and Dead on the Double Bump
  • Hot
  • Get Up Offa That Thing
  • Bodyheat
  • Mutha's Nature
  • Jam 1980's
  • Take a Look at Those Cakes
  • The Original Disco Man
  • People
  • Nonstop!
  • Soul Syndrome
  • Bring It On
  • Gravity
  • I'm Real
  • Love Overdue
  • Universal James
  • I'm Back
  • The Merry Christmas Album
  • The Next Step
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