James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud Pts.1 & 2 // #90 Billboard Top 100 Songs of 1968

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🎼 James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud Pts.1 & 2
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🎶 Lyrics:

Uh! With your bad self!

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!

[Verse 1]
Some people say we've got a lot of malice
Some say it's a lot of nerve
But I say we won't quit moving until we get what we deserve
We have been 'buked and we have been scorned
We've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you're born
But just as sure as it takes two eyes to make a pair, ha
Brother we can't quit until we get our share

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!

[Verse 2]
I worked on jobs with my feet and my hands
But all the work I did was for the other man
Now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We're tired of beating our head against the wall
And working for someone else

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!

[Bridge]
Ooh-wee, give it to me
All right, you're out of sight
All night, so tough
You're tough and rough
Ooh-wee, uh, you're killing me

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!

[Verse 3]
We demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We're tired of beating our head against the wall
And working for someone else

[Verse 4]
We're people, we like the birds and the bees
We'd rather die on our feet
Than be living on our knees

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!

[Bridge 2]
All right now, good God
You know we can do the boogaloo
Now we can say with the funky talk, and we do
Sometimes we sing and we talk
You know we jump back and do the camel walk
All right now, all right
All right

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
[Verse 3]
We demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We're tired of beating our head against the wall
And working for someone else

[Verse 4]
We're people, we like the birds and the bees
We'd rather die on our feet
Than be living on our knees

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!

[Bridge 3]
Ooh-wee, you're killing me
All right, you're out of sight
All right, you're out of sight
Ooh-wee, ah
Ooh-wee, you're killing me
Ooh-wee

[Hook]
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!


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🎶 Song Info:

"Say It Loud – I'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. Both parts of the single were later included on James Brown's 1968 album A Soulful Christmas and on his 1969 album sharing the title of the song. The song became an unofficial anthem of the Black Power movement.

Label: King Records (3) – KS-1047
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: Canada
Released: 1969
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul

B-side: "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud (Part 2)"
Released: August 1968
Recorded: August 7, 1968, Vox Studios, Los Angeles
Genre: Funk
Length: 2:45 (Part 1) 2:30 (Part 2)
Label: King 6187
Songwriter(s): James Brown, Alfred Ellis
Producer(s): James Brown

James Brown was a singer-songwriter, producer, bandleader, and dancer. He was known as the “Godfather of Soul,” “Soul Brother Number 1,” “Mr. Dynamite,” and “the hardest working man in show business.” He was instrumental in the development of a number of popular musical styles such as Funk, P-Funk and hip-hop.

Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia in the early 1950s. He connected with his longtime musical partner Bobby Byrd in the late 1940s as a teenager and Brown later joined Byrd’s group called the Gospel Starlighters, which changed to the Avons before switching to the Flames and then the Famous Flames. Hit ballads “Please, Please, Please” and “Try Me” brought national attention to Brown in the late 1950s, as he built a reputation as a relentless live performer with the Famous Flames.


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