(James Brown sings w/Louie Bellson Orchestra) This 1969 LP turned 2004 CD has just been reissued again (April 2008)......."Hey!!!"
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(excerpt from interview)
Louie Bellson on the actual recording sessions that took place in Nov. of 1969:
"It couldn’t of been any better, because sometimes you do a CD, it can be a great band and the singer is not up to it or the singer is not gelling right. That can happen with the best of them, but this is a case of right from the first note that the band played to the first arrangement, we were in, we all knew this was going to be something great. Oliver played a big part of it. He had a chance to work with James before the recording so a lot of the background was something things that James Brown dictated to Oliver and Oliver knew exactly what he wanted. I think that kind of pre-recording is important, because you have to sit with the artists, especially the arranger to know what kind of background to use or write. That really was 90 per cent of the battle right there."
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written by "O.W." - Soul-Sides.com (Sep 5, 2006)