James Brown performed on The Midnight Special August 6, 1976 Follow us on Social Media: / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / tmstvshow
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@DidYouReadEULA Жыл бұрын
How can they just sit there? Got to get up for the Godfather and his stage full of Maestros! What a show!!!!!
@Dwight2744 Жыл бұрын
People have commented in other Midnight Special videos that the audience was generally instructed to sit still and not make any noise for some reason. It really stands out though.
@jdwelborn Жыл бұрын
check out "Sex Machine - James Brown | The Midnight Special" James Brown MAKES everyone "get on up!"
@jonhowe2960 Жыл бұрын
Get Up Offa That Thing is rather unambiguous
@SOALNightLive Жыл бұрын
He did suggest they 'get up offa that thing".
@moorlock2003 Жыл бұрын
The sterile environment of a TV studio does not compare with a concert hall.
@statmagic3 ай бұрын
That guitar is so funky you can't even look at it.
@archangelrapheal52312 ай бұрын
Ikr, love it
@BIZARBIES Жыл бұрын
You can see where Prince got his microphone moves from!
@gregoryduncan3067 Жыл бұрын
Michael Jackson picked up a thing or two from him as well.
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
Oh yes! James was the GOAT!
@bOmBAsTiK Жыл бұрын
@@gregoryduncan3067 As did Mick Jagger, John Mellencamp, Paul Young, Trent D'Arby, MC Hammer et al...
@benscr3 ай бұрын
@@gregoryduncan3067True, and Michael Jackson always openly praised James Brown as a major influence on him.
@BELCAN579 ай бұрын
THE Hardest Working Man In Show Business
@Nivasi Жыл бұрын
The Midnight Special was the absolute BEST show..
@themidnightspecialtvshow Жыл бұрын
I agree with You Nivasi, Burt Sugarman
@pennymcneela7095 Жыл бұрын
James Brown Superstar....
@rjs2005 Жыл бұрын
It just doesn't get any funkier- or better than James Brown. What a fantastic performance by one of our greatest icons. The Midnight Special delivers again!
@mr.roaddogwade7107 Жыл бұрын
Quickest feet in the land. James in his prime. 🕺🏻🕺🏻👏🏼👏🏼Midnight Special should be in the Smithsonian.
@bluesrocker6l6gc8 Жыл бұрын
And a rhythm section second to none!!
@gregoryduncan3067 Жыл бұрын
I feel good!
@nancywhitten25852 ай бұрын
The good old days!
@hollygolightly74755 ай бұрын
Get up offa that thang, i danced my thang off to this and still do!! How can you not ! Funkiest song on earth !! Get up!!
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
James Brown was a fireball!!🔥🔥 I don't see how those people stayed in their seats!Great song to start the week!
@SnarlaRae Жыл бұрын
Im thinking it was cuz of cameta placement, set up and space. There is no way I coulda just sat there.
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
@@SnarlaRae yeah! Me either! 🙌✌️
@gregoryduncan3067 Жыл бұрын
@@StephanieJeanne They could've got up off their things but there didn't seem to be much room for them to get down. Looks crowded in there.
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
@@gregoryduncan3067 😆 That's true, but I woulda got on up on that stage if necessary, or stepped on some people! LOL
@gregoryduncan3067 Жыл бұрын
@@StephanieJeanne Then Burt would've kicked you out but you wouldn't have cared, right?
@dusty52267 Жыл бұрын
The Hardest Working Man in Show Business does it again! These videos are the best. Thanks Midnight Special.
@marel5932 Жыл бұрын
Godfather of soul!
@brendamelvoin2043 Жыл бұрын
Can't realize that it was 47 years ago! Quality is so pristine ! Thanks 4 sharing ! James Brown, by doing splits, should have had hips pain just...as Prince ... Please post his performance...😊
@bOmBAsTiK Жыл бұрын
He wasn't wearing women's heels while he was doing them though
@angelomelville9084 Жыл бұрын
IM WITNESSING PRINCE SENIOR HERE!
@not_name742111 ай бұрын
Wrong audience for this genius and innovator! I'm a 70+ white guy and both feet are taping and my head is shaking! (maybe it's the Parkinson's though too)
@nataliekriegler932911 ай бұрын
Love him! 💜💕💔❤💖...have since I was 12 or 13
@that70sgirl90 Жыл бұрын
Great singer, but just an all-around great performer!! Awesome back ground dancers! 💃💃 Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖
@drumscholar4211 ай бұрын
The BAND!!!!!!!!!
@kepler2407 ай бұрын
The BANANA!!!!!!!!
@MrAnimal197111 ай бұрын
The legend! Still love james browwn!!!
@zizzle1835 Жыл бұрын
🌞Gratitude 🌞
@catpocalypsenow8090 Жыл бұрын
I got up offa that thing.
@resetsurvivor Жыл бұрын
when bro catches the mic with his shoulder 😂
@shawnhallmon92454 ай бұрын
Yo I know man I kept rewatching that part
@ralphfurley12311 ай бұрын
The Godfather performing one of my favorites! I love it! ☮️🖖🏽
@kepler2407 ай бұрын
The dancing banana is awesome.
@SurlyriderBilly Жыл бұрын
I’d be mad, working that hard for that audience, damn
@yahausagi0720 Жыл бұрын
最高
@kepler2407 ай бұрын
Good God
@herveburzawa65622 күн бұрын
Le rythme le plus puissant jamais créé par le plus grand de tous.
@buddyburtonphotography Жыл бұрын
The song It Takes Two has some James Brown yell’s playing in the beat.
@MrCarltonjsmith8 ай бұрын
Hello Midnight Special, I saw this episode when it first aired. At the end of this broadcast as the credits were rolling James Brown performed a song entitled, "Everybody Wanna get Funky one More Time" it is a rare classic and the ONLY time he ever performed it on TV. Is it possible that you could air this? This request may fall on deaf ears or never be seen, but I had to try. I'm putting it out there in the universe. I was 16 when I last saw this and it would mean so much.
@kepler2407 ай бұрын
Yes. Show it.
@uncleboyd50237 ай бұрын
It will eventually be shown but probably not until years from now. They are releasing all the full episodes but by timeline order.
@DrBelser122 ай бұрын
Wow would love to see that!!
@Superpippo74 ай бұрын
👑👑👑
@mariaeugeniajirontapia4212 Жыл бұрын
👍❤
@christianfourcade378511 ай бұрын
Le roi de la funk 💥👏👐
@joabei11 Жыл бұрын
GOOD GOD!
@zellhudson183010 ай бұрын
THE G.O.A.T
@dougjarvie12 Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this video. Please upload Muddy Waters appearance on the Midnight Special.
@danielavaca4414 Жыл бұрын
The Dance Machine
@alhi6240 Жыл бұрын
Aren't any entertainers today (2023) that can sing and dance as well as the Godfather. Kudos!
@shawnhallmon92454 ай бұрын
I used to be able to copy James Brown dance during karaoke sessions at my friends house now because of my knee being messed up I can hardly dance at all😔...anyway I can't stop laughing at the guy in the yellow dancing next to the lady in the background 😂😂😂😂
@jnewsom197911 ай бұрын
JB ... I bow down
@tomaburque Жыл бұрын
That man had more talent in his left leg than any ten of these Hip Hop "artists". He literally invented funk music while rappers hire some guy with a laptop to make their beats they mumble-rap over.
@superhillsider Жыл бұрын
You got to give credit to band leaders/music interpreters Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis. I saw Pee Wee play Cold Sweat on a piano when he described how he came up with it, was spine-tingling to hear and see it.
@BIZARBIES Жыл бұрын
@superhillsider Fred is awesome! He is one of the funkiest humans that has ever lived. His work with Brown and Parliament Funkadelic are legendary. Everyone should know who Fred Wesley is!
@josephellis6697 Жыл бұрын
@@superhillsideryeah they are great in which they interpreted the ideas that Brown was telling them to a cool music, but here we are giving credit to James because of his great talent / incredible vocals
@VinVonVoom5 ай бұрын
You can respect your favourite artists without having to put others down. Mumble rap is incredibly irrelevant to this video and there was absolutely no reason to bring it up.
@hungfao Жыл бұрын
So, here's James with his always ready and tight band doling out his brand hard driving funk and.....you can see some of the kids in audience wanting to get up offa that thing but apparently aren't allowed to. Very weird to watch a dead audience when James is working. It seems just wrong. SMH. Another great performance, James (RIP)
@Merylstreep1949 Жыл бұрын
I have a sudden urge to get up off of things...not sure why 😂
@trishafaulk2067 Жыл бұрын
I noticed it was like that for a lot of dance songs, no one would stand and dance. How can people not dance to great songs unless told to stay in their seats. Who knows
@bOmBAsTiK Жыл бұрын
Everybody's complaining about the audience but remember, as great as this performance is it was 1976, 10-15 years after James Brown's prime, it was a whole new vibe by then and that's a young crowd
@mchavez21911 ай бұрын
It doesn't matter if he was ten or fifteen years past his prime in this performance because he was Great Here!! He more than Still had it!! And that song is Super Funky, Groovy, and I can't help but get up and dance, and I'm 63 years old Already!! Being that the crowd is Young should be All The More that They Should be Up and Dancing!! What a Dead Crowd!! And All The People Complaining about This Dead Crowd, Have a Right To!!👍👍
@VinVonVoom5 ай бұрын
James Brown's prime as a performer was in 74-77, his physicality, vocals and dance ability had all surpassed what he was in the 60s, just because he wasn't as popular by then doesn't change that. This has become very clear having watched and listened to a lot of James Brown live. It might not be my favourite era but it was objectively his best. Also 15 years before 1976 was 1961, that was before any live performance he'd done had been recorded.
@bOmBAsTiK5 ай бұрын
@@VinVonVoom Nah, I would say '74 cos that's when Three The Hard Way came out, although his actual "acting" probably peaked in the '60s when he was fresh out of football. I always thought Fred Williamson was better frankly, but if you say it's funky, to each his own player...✌🏽✊🏽
@timb350 Жыл бұрын
How...is it humanly possible...for a single person in the audience...to be sitting on their asses!?!?!?!!?? The whole room should be going effing NUTS! And they're all just sittin there like it's Sesame Street! W...T....F...????
@njhampster Жыл бұрын
They must have told the audience not to stand up!
@_JamesBrown Жыл бұрын
9 inches
@dethcreeper69 Жыл бұрын
Just a shame it wasn't a completely live recording
@Tensen01 Жыл бұрын
What part of it wasn't live?
@paulhopkins8148 Жыл бұрын
@@Tensen01 The audience.
@rafsoc161311 ай бұрын
Can anybody help me? What is he saying at 2:06?
@kepler2407 ай бұрын
Gimmie those funky horns
@VinVonVoom5 ай бұрын
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme AOW!
@vallaindigital Жыл бұрын
The audience is not listening 😁
@CharlesBrown-dr4nf11 ай бұрын
From understanding, they were told to sit there and don't make a scthe same comment comment
@hittheblockrecords3 ай бұрын
Here from Kendrick
@VinVonVoomАй бұрын
Don't tell a lie about me and I won't tell the truth about you
@alphabeets10 ай бұрын
What thing? ❤
@kepler2407 ай бұрын
Thumb tack
@VinVonVoomАй бұрын
that thing duh
@blablablabla42363 ай бұрын
Crowd was not prepared. They couldn’t handle the funk. Essentially they were paralyzed in shock. Poor white folks…