Soul on Top

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Name = Soul on Top
Type = studio
Artist = James Brown


Released = 1970
Recorded = November 10 and 11, 1969
Genre = Soul/Jazz
Length = 51:57 (2004 reissue)
Label = King/Verve (2004 reissue)
Producer = James Brown
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"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".

Track listing

# "That's My Desire" (Helmy Kressa, Carroll Loveday)
# "Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams)
# "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
# "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" (James Brown, Betty Jean Newsome)
# "The Man In The Glass" (Bud Hobgood)
# "It's Magic" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
# "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill)
# "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
# "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim)
# "I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)" (Louie Bellson)
# "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (Brown)
# "There Was A Time" "(2004 reissue only)" (Brown, Hobgood)

Personnel

*Al Aarons - trumpet
*Jack Arnold - percussion
*John Audino - trumpet
*Louis Bellson - drums, bandleader
*James Brown - vocal
*Ray Brown - bass
*Pete Christlieb - saxophone
*Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
*Buddy Collette - saxophone
*Nick DiMaio - trombone
*Chuck Finley - trumpet
*Jim Mulidore - baritone saxophone
*Oliver Nelson - arranger
*Maceo Parker - tenor saxophone
*Bill Pitman - guitar
*Tom Porello - trumpet
*Joe Romano - saxophone
*Louis Shelton - guitar
*Kenny Shroyer - trombone
*Bill Tole - trombone
*Frank Vincent - piano
*Ernie Watts - alto saxophone

References

* Terrel, Tom (October 5, 2004). " [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4062781 James Brown's 'Soul on Top' Reissued] ". "National Public Radio". Retrieved on April 27, 2007.