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Incendiary James Brown Performance

submitted by castles

1 decade 6 years 8 months 1 week ago

Watch the hardest working man in show business take down the house with his 1956 classic "Please, Please, Please." The charisma, theatrics, and pure energy of this performance are just utterly mind blowing..

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'Please, Please, Please, Godfather of Soul, theatrics, energy, cape' to '50s, Please, Please, Please, Godfather of Soul, theatrics, energy, cape' - edited by swampgirl

If he was young today. I bet he could do well on AI. Oh ya and awsome band.

ant

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Adding video to channels (Livemusic) - requested by ant.

Spoon_Gouge says...

Some Comedian did a routine once about how James Brown would do this during his shows. Break down, one of the band would come over to help him, an extra off stage would bring his cape and he would slowly start walking offstage and suddenly, BAM!, he's back to do it all again. Thought it was just a routine till I saw this...

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