Gold

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Please, Please, Please
  2:46
• 2
  Try Me
  2:33
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Good Good Lovin’
  2:16
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I’ll Go Crazy
  2:09
• 5
  Think
  2:52
• 6
  Lost Someone
  3:07
• 7
  Night Train
  3:32
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Prisoner of Love
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Out of Sight
  2:24
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 11
  I Got You (I Feel Good)
  2:48
  4.5 ★
• 12
  It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
  2:48
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Money Won’t Change You
  2:47
• 14
  Cold Sweat
  7:26
• 15
  There Was a Time
  4:27
• 16
  I Got the Feelin’
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Licking Stick – Licking Stick
  2:49
• 18
  Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud
  4:52
• 19
  Give It Up or Turn It Loose
  2:52
• 20
  I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself)
  3:06
• 21
  Mother Popcorn
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Hey America
  3:38
• CD 2
• 1
  Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
  5:18
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Super Bad
  5:02
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Soul Power
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Hot Pants
  3:08
  2.5 ★
• 5
  Make It Funky
  3:17
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothing
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 7
  King Heroin
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Get on the Good Foot
  3:36
  3.0 ★
• 9
  The Boss
  3:15
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Doing It to Death
  5:07
• 11
  The Payback
  7:38
  3.9 ★
• 12
  Papa Don’t Take No Mess (live)
  4:30
  5.0 ★
• 13
  My Thang
  4:17
• 14
  Funky President (People It’s Bad)
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Get Up Offa That Thing
  6:16
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Bodyheat
  4:04
• 17
  It’s Too Funky in Here
  4:00
• 18
  Living in America
  4:09
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al Brisco Clark
  tenor saxophone [9-11]
• Alfonzo Kellum
  guitar [11, 14, 16, 21]
• Alfred Corley
  alto saxophone [5]
• Andy Gibson
  producer [2]
• Bernard Odum
  bass [3-4, 9, 11, 14, 16], electric bass guitar [5]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Bill Hollings
  background vocals [2], vocal [5]
• Billy Butler
  guitar [12]
• Bob Both
  mix [11]
• Bobby Bennett
  background vocals [3-4], vocal [5]
• Bobby Byrd
  background vocals [2.12, 1.1, 1.3-4], organ [1.6-7, 2.1], piano [3], vocal [2.1, 1.5]
• Bobby Roach
  guitar [1.3-5, 2.8]
• Bootsy Collins
  bass guitar [1]
• Carl Pruitt
  bass [2]
• Catfish Collins
  guitar [1]
• Clarence Mack
  bass [1]
• Clayton Gunnells
  trumpet [1]
• Clifford Scott
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Clyde Stubblefield
  drums (drum set) [14, 21], membranophone [16]
• Darryl Hassan Jamison
  trumpet [1]
• David Matthews
  arranger [7], conductor [7]
• Edison Gore
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Eldee Williams
  tenor saxophone [9-11, 14]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [2]
• Fred Thomas
  bass [8]
• Fred Wesley
  arranger [9, 14], trombone [8, 12]
• George Dorsey
  alto saxophone [2-3]
• Hal Neely
  producer [8]
• Haywood Henry
  baritone saxophone [12]
• Hearlon "Cheese" Martin
  guitar [8, 12]
• Hubert Perry
  bass [6], electric bass guitar [7]
• Isiah "Ike" Oakley
  trumpet [8, 12]
• J.C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [3-7]
• J.W. Archer
  background vocals [2]
• James Brown
  arranger [7-9, 11-12, 14-15], conductor [9], drums (drum set) [7], lead vocals [2.1-8, 2.10-17, 1.1-21], organ [8], performer [9], piano [1], producer [1.8-9, 1.11-12, 1.14, 1.16, 1.21, 2.1, 2.4-5, 2.7-9, 2.11-15]
• James Brown & The Famous Flames
  performer [1-5]
• James Brown Orchestra
  performer [14, 16]
• James McGary
  alto saxophone [4]
• Jimmy Nolen
  guitar [1.10-11, 1.14, 1.16, 1.21, 2.12]
• Jimmy Parker
  alto saxophone [8]
• Joe Dupars
  trumpet [9-11, 14, 16]
• John Moran
  percussion [12]
• John Starks
  drums (drum set) [1, 12], membranophone [8]
• Johnny Terry
  background vocals [1-4], vocal [5]
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar [2]
• Kenny Poole
  guitar [21]
• Lammar Wright
  trumpet [12]
• Les Buie
  guitar [6-7, 9]
• Levi Rasbury
  trombone [10-11, 14, 16]
• Lloyd Stallworth
  background vocals [3-4], vocal [5]
• Louis Madison
  background vocals [2]
• Lowell Dorn
  recording [11]
• Lucas Fats Gonder
  piano [1]
• Maceo Parker
  alto saxophone [2.12, 1.11], baritone saxophone [9-10], tenor saxophone [10, 14, 16, 21]
• Mack Johnson
  trumpet [9]
• Melvin Parker
  drums (drum set) [9, 11], membranophone [10]
• Mike Ridley
  trumpet [11]
• Nafloyd Scott
  guitar [1]
• Nashpendle Knox
  background vocals [1]
• Nat Jones
  alto saxophone [9-11], organ [10-11]
• Nat Kendrick
  drums (drum set) [3-5], membranophone [6]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Pee Wee Ellis
  alto saxophone [14, 16, 21]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [1]
• Ray Felder
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Robert Knight
  trumpet [9]
• Robert McCollough
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Ron Lenhoff
  engineer [12]
• Ron Tooley
  trumpet [9-11]
• Roscoe Patrick
  trumpet [6-7]
• Russell Crimes
  trumpet [8]
• Sonny Thompson
  piano [4]
• St. Clair Pinckney
  baritone saxophone [14, 16, 21], tenor saxophone [2.8, 2.12, 1.9-11]
• Sylvester Keels
  background vocals [1]
• The J.B.’s
  performer [1, 4, 9, 11-12, 15]
• The James Brown Band
  performer [4, 7, 9], performing orchestra [5-6]
• Waymon Reed
  trumpet [12, 14, 16]
• Wilbert Smith
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Wilbur "Dud" Bascomb
  trumpet [12]
• Willie Johnson
  background vocals [3-4]
• Wilmer Milton
  trombone [9-10]
• [unknown]
  electric bass guitar [12]
• “Sweet” Charles Sherrell
  electric bass guitar [21]
• Show all credits (83)

Issues

• 

  G
  (Combined release view)
• 

  G
  Gold

  2x CD
  2005
• 

  G
  Gold

  2x CD
  5 June 2007
• 

  G
  Gold

  2x CD
  2007
• 

  G
  Gold

  2x Digital Media
  31 August 2018