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Mother Popcorn

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"Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) Part 1"
Single by James Brown
from the album It's a Mother
B-side"Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) Part 2"
ReleasedJune 1969 (1969-06)
RecordedMay 13, 1969 (1969-05-13), King Studios, Cincinnati, OH
GenreFunk
Length
  • 2:55 (Part 1)
  • 3:00 (Part 2)
LabelKing
6245
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)James Brown
James Brown charting singles chronology
"The Popcorn"
(1969)
"Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) Part 1"
(1969)
"Lowdown Popcorn"
(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. A #1 R&B and #11 Pop hit,[1][2] 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". The "mother" of the song's title was, in the words of biographer RJ Smith, "[Brown's] honorific for a big butt".[3]

"Mother Popcorn" has a beat and structure similar to Brown's 1967 hit "Cold Sweat", but a faster tempo and a greater amount of rhythmic activity (including much agitated 16th note movement from the horn section) give it a more frenetic quality than the earlier song. Critic Robert Christgau singled out "Mother Popcorn" as the turning point in Brown's funk music in which he "began to concern himself more and more exclusively with rhythmic distinctions."[4] The song features a saxophone solo by Maceo Parker, which starts at the end of Part 1 in the single version of the song.

Vicki Anderson recorded the answer song "Answer to Mother Popcorn (I Got a Mother for You)", also in 1969.

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Transcription

Personnel

  • James Brown - lead vocal

with the James Brown Orchestra:

A James Brown Production[5]

Live version

Brown performs a live version of "Mother Popcorn" on his album Sex Machine.

"You Got to Have a Mother for Me"

On January 13, 1969 Brown recorded a song at the RCA Studios in Los Angeles, California under the title "You Got to Have a Mother for Me". It had most of the same lyrics as "Mother Popcorn" but a completely different instrumental component, and was rejected for release as a single in favor of the later recording, which retained the earlier song title as a subtitle. The original "You Got to Have a Mother for Me" was first issued on the 1988 James Brown compilation album Motherlode.

Cover versions

Aerosmith covered "Mother Popcorn" during a live set in 1973[6] that was recorded, and eventually releated on their album Live! Bootleg. It was also covered by Frank Black on the 1998 tribute album James Brown Super Bad @ 65, and by The Blues Brothers in a medley with "Do You Love Me" on Made in America.

Trivia

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 84.
  2. ^ White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
  3. ^ Smith, R.J. (2012). The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, 220. New York: Gotham Books.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert. "A Consumer Guide to James Brown". Retrieved on March 7, 2008.
  5. ^ Leeds, Alan M., and Harry Weinger (1991). Star Time: Song by Song. In Star Time (pp. 46–53) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
  6. ^ "Aerosmith – 'Live! Bootleg' (1978) – Album Review (The Aerosmith Collection Series)". 11 November 2021.

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