Vinyl Wednesday: James Brown - The Popcorn

My latest mix is now online. Venus Tunes Sessions is a monthly mix by Susanne Alt on Freak31, aired every first Sunday of the month at 19:00h. In addition, earlier Venus Tunes Sessions shows are repeated every Friday between 20:00-21:00 and Tuesday 21:00-22:00.Freak 31 has around 250 daily listeners (less during the week, more in the weekend) and a total of +10.000 listeners every month. In addition to Mixcloud and Hearthis, all mixes are also available as podcasts on Deezer and iTunes.It was in 2015 when I had my first official dj gig and since 2016 I started to perform regularly. This took place in Amsterdam's Skyybar, Floor17 and The Harbourclub Zuid... bit by bit, other places like Momo and W Amsterdam followed, leading to club bookings as a dj and festival bookings with Venus Tunes Live in the Netherlands and abroad. All of this in addition to my normal life as a musician. I love dj'ing as it adds another facet to my musicianship.Listen to all editions of the Venus Tunes Sessions where you like; choose your platform: Venus Tunes Sessions is a monthly guest mix by Susanne Alt on Freak31, aired every first Sunday of the month at 1900h. Streaming Dance, straight from Amsterdam. - .. or actually fully titled:James Brown directs and dances with the James Brown Band THE POPCORN Neither the record sleeve nor Discogs give us any information about the musicians other than Alfred Pee Wee Ellis was the arranger.Listen to the first track reveals Maceo Parker on tenor...Watching this video shows Clyde Stubblefield on drums:After a bit of searching, I finally found an article about the line-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Popcorn.The popcorn was not so much about popcorn itself as about a dance crave called the popcorn. As you can read in the article, it is a series of songs, inspired by the popcorn dance..Then, this record features the famous song The Chicken by Pee Wee Ellis, later becoming famous by Jaco Patorius from his album The Birthday Concert. Off topic, but when Youtubing, I stumbled on this: Someone made a 1h44min compilation of James Brown Funky Instrumentals: The 2nd tune of Popocorn is also featured here in this compilation: Why (am I treated so bad) features Fred Wesley on trombone.I could talk endlessly about this music, always discovering new things, details which I suddenly pay attention to. It will still take a long time until people realize it's true art. James Brown and his musicians and arrangers can't deserve too much respect and recognition, sculpturing unique music.Wikipedia James BrownWebsite Fred WesleyFacebook Pee Ellis