Name: Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
Brand: Universal
SKU: 61051490
Availability: OutOfStock

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: James Brown, Bobby Byrd (vocals, organ); Alfonzo "Country" Kellum (guitar, bass); Jimmy Nolen, Carl Lynch, Wallace Richardson, Eddie Setser, Troy Seals (guitar); Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (alto & tenor saxophones, organ); David Parkinson, Les Asch, St. Clair Pinckney (tenor & baritone saxophones); Maceo Parker, Eldee Williams (tenor saxophone); Heywood Henry (baritone saxophone); Waymon Reed, Richard "Kush" Griffith, Dud Bascomb, Johnny Grimes, Joe Dupars, Ron Geisman (trumpet); Fred Wesley, Richard Harris (trombone); Levi Rasbury (valve trombone); Tim Hedding (piano, organ); Ernie Hayes (piano); Charles Sherrell, Al Lucas, Bernard Odum, Ken Tibbetts, Tim Drummond (bass); Clyde Stubblefield, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, John "Jabo" Starks, William "Beau Dollar" Bowman (drums).
Recorded at Vox Studios, Van Nuys, California; Fine Studios and Bell Sound, New York, New York; Master Sound Studios, Atlanta, Georgia; King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio between August 17, 1967 and October 18, 1968. Originally released on King (1049). Includes liner notes by Harry Weinger and Alan Leeds.
Digitally remasterd by Gary N. Mayo (PolyGram Studios).
This collection of Brown sides was originally released in 1969 and proves to be one of the Godfather's finest recordings of that era. The title track, a musical anthem for the civil rights movement that is Brown's first foray into material dealing with social issues, is a loose and funky booty-mover that still manages to be a battle cry for cultural identity. Beautiful ballads like the funk-inflected "Goodbye My Love" and "I Guess I'll Have To Cry, Cry, Cry" (given a dramatic, string-laden rendering here) feature Brown's trademark banshee-in-heat wail. All of the aforementioned songs charted on both the R&B and pop charts, as did the super-groovy "Licking Stick"--a song to which it is literally impossible to sit still. Like almost all of Brown's material from this period, SAY IT LOUD is classic, fantastic, and indispensable.