Monday 9 September 2013

James Brown - Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) (1969)


Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) is a song recorded by James Brown and released as a two-part single in 1969. It was featured on the album It's A Mother and was recorded at the legendary King studios in Cincinnati. If you think it sounds familiar, it owes a lot to Cold Sweat and I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing; the man Brown loved to recycle his grooves. A no.1 R&B and no.11 Pop hit in the U.S., it was the highest-charting of a series of recordings inspired by the popular dance the Popcorn which Brown made that year, including The Popcorn, Lowdown Popcorn, and Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn.
Vicki Anderson recorded an answer song, catchily titled Answer to Mother Popcorn (I Got a Mother for You), also in 1969.
Incidentally The "Mother" part of the song's title was, in the words of The One: The Life and Music of James Brown author RJ Smith:
"[Brown's] honorific for a big butt".




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