20 All-Time Greatest Hits!

20 All-Time Greatest Hits! is a compilation album by James Brown containing 20 of his most famous recordings. Released by Polydor in 1991 as a single-disc alternative to the Star Time box set, it features songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. 16 of the songs from the album had previously topped the US R&B charts. The album itself peaked at number 99 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart after its release. In 2003, it was ranked number 414 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Got You (I Feel Good)"	James Brown	2:47
2.	"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine"	James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff	5:15
3.	"I Got the Feelin'"	Brown	2:38
4.	"Mother Popcorn, Pt. 1"	Brown, Pee Wee Ellis	3:16
5.	"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose"	Charles Bobbit	3:11
6.	"Make It Funky, Pt. 1"	Brown, Bobbit	3:15
7.	"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1"	Brown	2:06
8.	"Think"	Lowman Pauling	2:45
9.	"It's a Man's Man's Man's World"	Brown, Betty Jean Newsome	2:47
10.	"Try Me"	Brown	2:30
11.	"Night Train"	Jimmy Forrest, Lewis Simpkins, Oscar Washington	3:31
12.	"Cold Sweat, Pt. 1"	Brown, Ellis, David Lindup	2:51
13.	"Get on the Good Foot"	Brown, Joe Mims, Fred Wesley	3:35
14.	"Papa Don't Take No Mess, Pt. 1"	Brown, Bobbit, Jabo Starks, Wesley	4:23
15.	"The Payback"	Brown, Starks, Wesley	7:38
16.	"Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud, Pt. 1"	Brown, Ellis	2:46
17.	"Super Bad, Pts. 1 & 2"	Brown	5:00
18.	"Hot Pants, Pt. 1"	Brown, Wesley	3:07
19.	"Get Up Offa That Thing"	Brown, Deidre Brown	4:10
20.	"Please, Please, Please"	Brown, Johnny Terry	2:44

Personnel

Credits for 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! adapted from Allmusic.^[4]

John Bobbit – composer
Deanna Brown – composer
Deidra Brown – composer
James Brown – composer, vocals
James Razor Brown – producer
Yamma Brown – composer
Alfred Ellis – composer
Pee Wee Ellis – composer
D. Jenkins – composer
David Lindup – composer
Bob Marley – composer
Mims, Joe – composer
Lowman Pauling – composer
Fred Wesley – composer
Isabelle Wong – design

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[5]	99

References

↑ Allmusic Review
↑ Rolling Stone Review
↑ "Greatest Hits – James Brown". Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/20-all-time-greatest-hits-r2702/credits
↑ 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! – James Brown > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved September 1, 2011.

James Brown albums

Studio albums	Please Please Please Try Me! Think! The Amazing James Brown Good, Good, Twistin' James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. Prisoner of Love Showtime Grits & Soul Out of Sight Papa's Got a Brand New Bag James Brown Plays James Brown Today & Yesterday I Got You (I Feel Good) 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 James Brown Sings Raw Soul James Brown Plays the Real Thing Cold Sweat I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me I Got the Feelin' James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul 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 The Payback Hell Reality Sex Machine Today Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & 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 Soul Syndrome Nonstop! Bring It On! Gravity I'm Real Love Over-Due Universal James I'm Back The Merry Christmas Album The Next Step

Live albums	Live at the Apollo Pure Dynamite! Live at the Royal The James Brown Show Live at the Garden Live at the Apollo, Volume II Sex Machine Revolution of the Mind: Recorded Live at the Apollo, Vol. III Hot on the One Live in New York Live at Chastain Park Soul Session Live Love Power Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971 Live at the Apollo 1995 Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68

Notable compilation albums	Solid Gold: 30 Golden Hits In the Jungle Groove Motherlode Star Time 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! Roots of a Revolution Foundations of Funk – A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969 Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang Make It Funky – The Big Payback: 1971-1975 The Singles, Volume One: The Federal Years: 1956–1960 The Singles, Volume Two: 1960–1963 The Singles, Volume Three: 1964–1965 The Singles, Volume Four: 1966–1967

Band members	Bobby Byrd Lyn Collins Phelps "Catfish" Collins William "Bootsy" Collins Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis Maceo Parker Melvin Parker St. Clair Pinckney John "Jabo" Starks Clyde Stubblefield Fred Wesley

Associated acts	The Famous Flames The J.B.'s

Related articles	Discography Record labels owned by James Brown "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" James Brown: Man to Man Live at the Boston Garden Future Shock Tomi Rae Hynie Get on Up

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