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Track Listings
| 1. That's My Desire |
| 2. Your Cheatin Heart |
| 3. What Kind of Fool Am I? |
| 4. It's a Man's, Man's Man's World |
| 5. The Man in the Glass |
| 6. It's Magic |
| 7. September Song |
| 8. For Once in My Life |
| 9. Every Day I Have the Blues |
| 10. I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On) |
| 11. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (Edited LP version) |
| 12. There Was a Time |
| 13. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (Previously unissued unedited version) |
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SOUL ON TOP is one of the more unusual entries in the JamesBrown catalogue. On this 1969 album, the Godfather of Soul is backed by jazz drummer Louie Bellson's big band, with arrangements by famed jazz orchestrator Oliver Nelson, for a program including numerous jazz standards, a country tune, andjazzy reworkings of classic Brown songs. Brown was a jazz fan and admirer of Bellson, and finally approached him to do an album, at which point Bellson suggested bringing Nelson aboard as arranger.
The results ostensibly take Brown out of his comfort zone. However, he sounds no less assured on ajazz boogaloo version of Hank Williams's "Your Cheatin' Heart" and a funked-up, horn-heavy take on Kurt Weill's "September Song" than he does on reinterpretations of his own "It'sa Man's, Man's, Man's World" and "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". Brown brought longtime saxman Maceo Parker along for company, so there's a bit of JB's flavour here, but for the most part it's a strange-but-happy marriage of Brown's gritty R&B voice, Bellson's hard-charging big band, and Nelson's harmonically rich horn arrangements. If you never thought you'dhear a soulful version of the Anthony Newley tune "What Kind of Fool Am I?", SOUL ON TOP will change your mind.
The results ostensibly take Brown out of his comfort zone. However, he sounds no less assured on ajazz boogaloo version of Hank Williams's "Your Cheatin' Heart" and a funked-up, horn-heavy take on Kurt Weill's "September Song" than he does on reinterpretations of his own "It'sa Man's, Man's, Man's World" and "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". Brown brought longtime saxman Maceo Parker along for company, so there's a bit of JB's flavour here, but for the most part it's a strange-but-happy marriage of Brown's gritty R&B voice, Bellson's hard-charging big band, and Nelson's harmonically rich horn arrangements. If you never thought you'dhear a soulful version of the Anthony Newley tune "What Kind of Fool Am I?", SOUL ON TOP will change your mind.
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