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JAMES BROWN & THE FAMOUS FLAMES
1 Just You and Me, Darling (2:47)
2 I Love You, Yes I Do (2:46)
3 I Don't Mind (2:48)
4 Come Over Here (2:43)
5 Bells (2:53)
6 Love Don't Love Nobody (2:04)
7 Dancin' Little Thing (2:14)
8 Lost Someone (2:59)
9 And I Do Just What I Want (2:24)
10 So Long (2:48)
11 You Don't Have to Go (2:46)
12 Tell Me What You're Gonna Do (2:07)
13 Bye Bye Baby (2:03)
EDDIE FLOYD
14 Never Get Enough of Your Love (3:09)
15 I'm Her Yo Yo Man (2:28)
16 Lonely (3:16)
17 Please Don't Leave Me Dear (2:07)
18 I'll Never Find Another Girl Like You (2:12)
19 When You're in Love (2:31)
20 The Whip (2:16)
The first 12 tracks are the ones that comprised James Brown's early-'60s LP The Amazing James Brown, which was retitled Tell Me What You're Gonna Do when it was issued in the U.K. in 1964 (as the first of Brown's studio albums to become available in Britain). Under whatever title it was released, this was about as good as an early-'60s soul album got, catching Brown just at the point where he was moving from gospel-fired R&B to dynamic, jazzy, and rhythmically innovative soul. The ballads "I Don't Mind" and "Lost Someone" were pretty big hits, but the rest of the tracks are in same ballpark of quality and cover a lot of ground. Covers of jump blues (Roy Brown's "Love Don't Love Nobody") and doo wop (Billy Ward's "The Bells") are homages to Brown's roots, but the funky jazz licks and eccentric tempos in "Dancin' Little Thing" and "And I Do Just What I Want" are clear signposts to the singer's mid-'60s funk breakthroughs. The eight Eddie Floyd tracks were recorded circa 1962-1964 (the lengthy liner notes are frustratingly cloudy about the exact dates) for the LuPine and SAFICE labels, and collected for an LP release by Ember in the U.K. in the mid-'60s. |
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