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1977 greatest hits album by James Brown
Solid Gold: 30 Golden Hits , also called 30 Golden Hits/21 Golden Years , is a
greatest hits
compilation album by
James Brown . The
double album set was initially released in 1977 on
Polydor , and was re-released by the label in 1986. The album's
liner notes listed the release dates and U.S.
chart positions for each song and included an essay by
Cliff White . This is the first compilation album to include
Get Up(I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine . According to
Allmusic reviewer William Ruhlman, the collection was "state-of-the-art", an influential model "not only...for the many Brown compilations that would follow in later years, but also for the compilation boom in general".
[1] In 1981,
Village Voice critic
Robert Christgau described it as "an essential collection."
[3] Allmusic indicates that it supplies "the essence of James Brown", but also states "[i]t has since been superseded by the 1991 four-disc
Star Time boxed set".
[1]
All songs are represented in their single edit form.
Track listing
Side A
"
Please, Please, Please " [Mono] (
James Brown , Johnny Terry)
"
Try Me " [Mono] (Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1959) / #48 Pop Singles (1959) / #34 Black Singles (1965) / #63 Pop Singles (1965)
"Good Good Lovin'" [Mono] (Brown, Albert Shubert)
"
I'll Go Crazy " (Brown)
#15 Black Singles (1960) / #38 Black Singles (1966) / #73 Pop Singles (1966)
"
Think " [Mono] (
Lowman Pauling )
#7 Black Singles (1960) / #33 Pop Singles (1960) / #100 Pop Singles (1967) / #15 Black Singles (1973) / #77 Pop Singles (1973)
"
Night Train " [Mono] (
Jimmy Forrest , Lewis Simpkins, Oscar Washington)
#5 Black Singles (1962) / #35 Pop Singles (1962)
"
Out of Sight " [Mono] (Ted Wright)
#24 Black Singles (1964) / #24 Pop Singles (1964)
"
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag " [Mono] (Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1965) / #8 Pop Singles (1965) / #25
UK Singles (1965)
[5]
"
I Got You (I Feel Good) " [Mono] (Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1965) / #3 Pop Singles (1965) / #29 UK Singles (1966)
Side B
"
It's a Man's Man's Man's World " [Mono] (Brown, Betty Jean Newsome)
#1 Black Singles (1966) / #8 Pop Singles (1966) / #13 UK Singles (1966)
"
Cold Sweat " (Brown,
Pee Wee Ellis )
#1 Black Singles (1967) / #7 Pop Singles (1967)
"
There Was a Time " (Brown, Bud Hobgood)
#3 Black Singles (1968) / #36 Pop Singles (1968)
"
I Got the Feelin' (Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1968) / #6 Pop Singles (1968)
"
Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud) " (Brown, Ellis)
#1 Black Singles (1968) / #10 Pop Singles (1968)
"
Give It Up or Turnit a Loose " (Charles Bobbit)
#1 Black Singles (1969) / #15 Pop Singles (1969)
"
Mother Popcorn " [Duophonic] (Brown, Ellis)
#1 Black Singles (1969) / #11 Pop Singles (1969)
"
Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine " (Brown,
Bobby Byrd , Ron Lenhoff)
#2 Black Singles (1970) / #15 Pop Singles (1970) / #61 Pop Singles (1975) / #32 UK Singles (1970)
Side C
"
Super Bad " (Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1970) / #13 Pop Singles (1970)
"
Soul Power " [Mono] (Brown)
#3 Black Singles (1971) / #29 Pop Singles (1971)
"
Hot Pants " (Brown,
Fred Wesley )
#1 Black Singles (1971) / #15 Pop Singles (1971)
"
Make It Funky " (Bobbit, Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1971) / #22 Pop Singles (1971)
"
Talking Loud and Saying Nothing " [Mono] (Brown, Byrd)
#1 Black Singles (1972) / #27 Pop Singles (1972)
"
Honky Tonk " (
Billy Butler ,
Bill Doggett , Clifford Scott,
Berisford "Shep" Shepherd )
#7 Black Singles (1972) / #44 Pop Singles (1972)
"
Get on the Good Foot " (Brown, Joe Mims, Wesley)
#1 Black Singles (1972) / #18 Pop Singles (1972)
Side D
"
The Payback " (Brown, Wesley, Starks)
#1 Black Singles (1974) / #26 Pop Singles (1974)
"
My Thang " (Brown)
#1 Black Singles (1974) / #29 Pop Singles (1974)
"
Papa Don't Take No Mess " (Bobbit, Brown, Starks, Wesley)
#1 Black Singles (1974) / #331 Pop Singles (1974)
"
Funky President (People It's Bad) " [Mono] (Brown)
#4 Black Singles (1975) / #44 Pop Singles (1975)
"
Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved) " (Brown)
"
Get Up Offa That Thing " (Brown)
#4 Black Singles (1976) / #45 Pop Singles / #22 UK Singles (1976)
References
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