• "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud" is a funk song performed by James Brown, and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis in 1968. It was...
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  • Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud is the 23rd studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in March 1969, by King Records...
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    Machine" and "The Payback". He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud". Brown...
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    September 1, 2016. "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud". Billboard. 24 May 1969. Retrieved September 1, 2016. "Gettin' Down to It". Billboard. 7 June...
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  • James Brown Thanks – 0:49 "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" (Introduction) – 1:33 "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" (James Brown, Pee Wee Ellis)...
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  • hit songs "We're a Winner" and "Keep on Pushing" and James Brown's "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud" celebrated black pride. Beyoncé's half-time...
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    Brown's recordings and co-writing hits like "Cold Sweat" and "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud". He also worked with Van Morrison. In the 2014 biographical...
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  • the same power as James Brown's "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud" and next day we met in the studio [...] and then from that we built the song....
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  • Christgau called it "the finest of the classic [James Brown] comps". Highlights include a live "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud", the first album...
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    Got the Feelin'", "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose", "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud", "Mother Popcorn", "Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved", "There...
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  • linguistic reappropriation, which Brown had done before in "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud". The song includes a tenor saxophone solo by Robert McCollough...
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    release by King Records. The song was included on the album Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud. The title of the song refers to a stick used to administer...
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  • police and the black audience, but James calms the crowd and issues a plea for togetherness. He records "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud" and pitches...
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  • addition, the album Motherlode includes a live rendition of "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" purportedly from the same Augusta concert. The full 1969...
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  • Arc "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud", a song by James Brown This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Say It Loud. If an...
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    1960s and 1970s, he was a pivotal member of James Brown's bands, playing on many hit recordings including "Say it Loud - I'm Black, and I'm Proud," "Mother...
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    Bernard Purdie (category Rhythm and blues drummers)
    session. Purdie is credited on James Brown's albums Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud (1969) and Get on the Good Foot (1972). Purdie started working...
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  • October, which is the month it reached its R&B chart peak of #2 (behind James Brown's "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud", "Slip Away" already having...
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    The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is an American animated television series created by Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar which premiered on Disney+...
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  • up and take violent revenge for the frequent police harassment they experienced. He also covered James Brown's "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud"....
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  • All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" (James Brown, Pee Wee Ellis) - 7:32 "Summertime" (George...
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  • lines of such previous efforts as "Don't Be a Drop-Out" and "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud." His narrative style on this song is also considered...
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  • (and adapted from James Brown's “Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud”) is "potentially a deliberate allusion to the song's black power theme as it relates...
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    Garfunkel 90 "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud" James Brown 91 "The Mighty Quinn" Manfred Mann 92 "Here Comes the Judge" Shorty Long 93 "I Say a Little...
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  • Sweet Charles Sherrell (category American rhythm and blues bass guitarists)
    including the #1 R&B hits "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud", "Mother Popcorn", and "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" and more. Brown credited him with...
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  • It" by James Brown (1976), and "Breakthrough" by Isaac Hayes (1974) Track 5 contains samples from "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" and "Give It...
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  • KC & the Sunshine Band "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Roger Oh My Gosh "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" by James Brown "It's a New Day"...
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    (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine", "Super Bad", "Soul Power", and "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing". They also accompanied Brown on a European tour...
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  • Foundations of Funk – A Brand New Bag: 1964–1969 (category 1990s rhythm and blues album stubs)
    released on 1998's Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68. "Say It LoudI'm Black And I'm Proud, Pts. 1 & 2" - 4:50 "Give It Up Or Turnit a Loose"...
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  • sample of James Brown grunting from the opening of his song "Say It LoudI'm Black and I'm Proud" A vocal sample of the line "insane in the brain" from Cypress...
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