I'm sorry I couldn't post anything this weekend, as my Internet was down. I realise how much this must have perturbed some of you. Some of you will even have been hoping for 6 songs from me that day. Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles! Here's the one I was hoping to post, with "The Godfather of Soul" asking for Father Christmas to think of all the poor children in the ghetto first. I'm not sure my daughters would agree with "Soul Brother Number One" on that, but there you are! I'll be posting another Christmas song this evening, unless one of you can get in first!
All the best,
PS "The King of Funk" is so Christmassy he even died on Christmas Day, leading Libération to headline their newspaper with "Ex-Machine" in memory of his most famous song!
Ghetto or elsewhere, Santa goes everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying this musical Advent calendar, discovering musical gems like this and I love the bonus anecdotes.
Weirdly I like the song..
ReplyDeleteImpressive pun in the title ;p
ReplyDeleteWhy "weirdly", Beverly? You know I have great taste!
ReplyDeleteI like it too...as all of James Brown did :D
ReplyDeleteHaha weirdly I like it too ! The lyrics are interesting and the pace of the song is kind of catchy :)
ReplyDeleteYou know I went to check if he was really dead on the 25th ? It's not that I don't trust you but you're always making jokes so..
I also learnt that he began to sing after getting out of jail ! He created a gospel quartet with his cellmates ! Incredible, isn't it ?