By late 1965, James Brown was almost ten years into his R&B chart profession within the US. However so far as nearly all of the pop viewers was involved, he had solely been on the radar for just a few months. On November 13 that 12 months, he hit the Billboard Scorching 100 with the music that will change into his second large crossover single in a row, “I Got You (I Feel Good).”
Brown was now reaping the rewards from his gorgeous efficiency on the T.A.M.I. Present TV particular of late 1964. That was the historic present on which he rubbed shoulders with such British invaders as the Rolling Stones and Gerry & the Pacemakers, and US acts together with the Seaside Boys and Jan & Dean, and upstaged all of them.
In the summertime of 1965, “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” not solely grew to become his second R&B No.1 (and first for seven years, since “Try Me”) however made him a pop radio title as properly, reaching No.8 on the Scorching 100. Higher nonetheless was to come back with “I Got You.”
The artist had first recorded the music a 12 months earlier, in a model that bought caught up in a authorized wrangle. Its origins went again even additional, to a model titled “I Found You” by Yvonne Honest, then a member of JB’s band, later a solo artist greatest remembered for her UK hit of 1976, “It Should Have Been Me.” The Godfather of Soul’s hit model of the tune, recorded in Might 1965, featured, amongst others, Maceo Parker on sax and his brother Melvin on drums.
“I Got You (I Feel Good)” arrived on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1965 at a assured No.68, the third-highest of 16 new entries and beneath solely the 4 Tops’ “Something About You” and “Over and Over” by the Dave Clark 5. The subsequent week, it made an unimaginable 54-place climb to No.14, and went on to spend three weeks at No.3, from simply earlier than Christmas into the brand new 12 months. On the December 4 chart, the observe began a six-week run atop the R&B survey. It went on to characteristic repeatedly as a cultural marker of the period, in all places from Good Morning Vietnam to The Simpsons.
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