Out of Sight (song)

For the 1999 song see Guitars (Mike Oldfield album).

"Out of Sight"
Single by James Brown
from the album Out of Sight
B-side	"Maybe the Last Time"
Released	July 1964
Format	7"
Recorded	May 1964
Genre	Rhythm and blues
Length	2:23
Label	Smash S 1919
Writer(s)	Ted Wright
Producer	James Brown

"Out of Sight" is an Rhythm and blues song recorded by James Brown in 1964. A twelve-bar blues written by Brown under the pseudonym "Ted Wright", the stuttering, staccato dance rhythms and blasting horn section riffs of its instrumental arrangement were an important evolutionary step in the development of funk music. In his book James Brown: The Godfather of Soul Brown wrote that

"Out of Sight" was another beginning, musically and professionally. My music - and most music - changed with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", but it really started on "Out of Sight" ... You can hear the band and me start to move in a whole other direction rhythmically. The horns, the guitars, the vocals, everything was starting to be used to establish all kinds of rhythms at once... I was trying to get every aspect of the production to contribute to the rhythmic patterns.^[1]

"Out of Sight" was the third single Brown recorded for Smash Records in the midst of a contract dispute with his main label, King. A significant pop hit, reaching #24 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was also the last song he would record for over a year, as the court's ruling in his dispute with King barred him from making vocal recordings for Smash.

"Out of Sight" was one of Brown's first recordings to feature the playing of saxophonist Maceo Parker. Its B-side, "Maybe the Last Time", was his last studio recording with The Famous Flames. Besides its single release, "Out of Sight" appeared on a Smash album of the same name, which was quickly withdrawn from sale for legal reasons. The withdrawn album was re-released on King in 1968 with one track missing under the title James Brown Sings Out of Sight.

Personnel

• James Brown - lead vocal

with the James Brown Band:

• McKinley "Mack" Johnson - trumpet
• Ron Tooley - trumpet
• Robert Knight - trumpet
• Joe Dupars - trumpet
• Wilmer Milton - trombone
• Nat Jones - alto saxophone
• Eldee Williams - tenor saxophone
• St. Clair Pinckney - tenor saxophone
• Al "Brisco" Clark - tenor saxophone
• Maceo Parker - baritone saxophone
• Lucas "Fats" Gonder or Bobby Byrd - organ
• Les Buie - guitar
• Bernard Odum - bass
• Melvin Parker - drums

Filmed performances

• Brown and his band perform "Out of Sight" in The T.A.M.I. Show with The Famous Flames, who dance (but don't sing) at his side.

Cover versions

• Van Morrison and Them covered "Out of Sight" on their 1966 album Them Again.

Citations

1. ^ Brown, James, with Bruce Tucker. James Brown: The Godfather of Soul (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company,1986), 149.

References

• Leeds, Alan M., and Harry Weinger (1991). Star Time: Song by Song. In Star Time (pp. 46–53) [CD liner notes]. London: Polydor Records.
• White, Cliff (1991). Discography. In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD liner notes]. London: Polydor Records.

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