His 1985 song "Living in America," featured prominently in Rocky IV, was his biggest hit in decades. Throughout the 1970s, Brown continued to perform ceaselessly and recorded several more hits, most notably "Sex Machine" and "Get Up Offa That Thing." Although his career fell off during the late 1970s due to financial troubles and the rise of disco, Brown made an inspired comeback with a multifaceted performance in the classic 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Rap Brown of the Black Panthers, "I'm not going to tell anybody to pick up a gun." A staunch believer in exclusively nonviolent protest, Brown once declared to H. In 1966, he recorded "Don't Be a Dropout," an eloquent and impassioned plea to the Black community to place more focus on education. In the mid-1960s, Brown also began devoting more and more energy to social causes. 2 on the pop albums chart and firmly establishing his crossover appeal.īrown went on to record many of his most popular and enduring singles during the mid-1960s, including "I Got You (I Feel Good)," "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World." With its unique rhythmic quality, achieved by reducing each instrument to an essentially percussive role, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is considered the first song of a new genre, funk, an offshoot of soul and a precursor of hip-hop. Initially opposed by King Records because it featured no new songs, Live at the Apollo proved Brown's greatest commercial success yet, peaking at No.
On a single night-October 24, 1962-Brown recorded a live concert album at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. His saxophonist, Pee Wee Ellis, once said, "When you heard James Brown was coming to town, you stopped what you were doing and started saving your money." He performed five or six nights a week throughout the 1950s and '60s, a schedule that earned him the title "The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business." Brown was a flashy showman, incredible dancer, and soulful singer, and his concerts were hypnotizing displays of exuberance and passion that left audiences in raptures. In addition to writing and recording music, Brown toured relentlessly.
He soon followed with a string of hits that included "Lost Someone," "Night Train" and "Prisoner of Love," his first song to crack the Top 10 on the pop charts, peaking at No. 1 on the R&B charts, cracked the Hot 100 Singles chart and kick-started Brown's music career. Needing a creative spark and in danger of losing his record deal, in 1958, Brown moved to New York, where, working with different musicians whom he also called the Flames, he recorded "Try Me." The song reached No.
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