James Brown (8,715 views)

[Platypus]

James Joseph Brown (03.05.1933 - 25.12.2006)
Years Active: 1953 - 2006
Vocal Range: D2 - F♯6

Significant High Notes:
F♯6 ("Cold Sweat" live Hollywood Palace 1969, "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" "Sex Machine" album version)
F6 ("By The Time I Get to Phoenix" live Playboy After Dark 1970, "Can't Be The Same", "Deep In It", "Give It Up And Turn It a Loose" 1969 televised performance, "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)", "I Can't Stand It" live Virginia 1970, "Mother Popcorn" live Music Scene 1969, "Papa Don't Take No Mess", "Please, Please, Please" live Manchester 1973, "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" live Dallas 1968, "September Song" live Flip Wilson Show 1970, "Superbad", "Take Me Higher and Groove Me", "Take Some - Leave Some", "World" live Augusta 1969)
E6 ("As Long As I Love You", "Cold Sweat Pt. 2", "Don't Tell a Lie About Me and I Won't Tell the Truth On You", "Hot Pants Road", "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)", "I Got a Bag of My Own", "I Need Help (I Can't Do It Alone)", "I Never, Never, Never Will Forget", "Kansas City" 1976 version, "Keep Keepin'", "Let The Funk Flow", "Let's Get Personal", "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year", "Mashed Potato Popcorn Pt. 1", "My Thang", "The Payback", "Repeat The Beat (Faith)", "September Song", "Superbad", "Superbad, Superslick", "That's My Desire", "Think" 1973 version, "The Twist", "Woman" 1976 version, "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Your Love")
E♭6 ("By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Coldblooded", "Deep In It", "Down And Out In New York City", "Eyesight", "Further On Up The Road", "Funky Men", "Funky President (People It's Bad)", "Georgia On My Mind", "Get Up Off of Me", "Hustle!!! (Dead On It)", "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 2", "I Got The Feelin'" live Augusta 1969, "I'm Broken Hearted", "If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try Again, Party", "Jam", "Let It Be Me", "Lost Someone" 1972 version, "A Man Has to Go Back to the Crossroads" 1974 version, "The Man In The Glass", "Mother Popcorn Pt. 2", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" Extended version, "The Payback", "Reality", "I Refuse To Lose", "Static", "Stone Fox", "Take Me Higher and Groove Me", "There Was a Time", "Turn On The Heat And Build Some Fire")
D6 ("As Long As I Love You", "Bewildered" live Virginia 1970, "Don't Cry Baby", "Don't Stop The Funk", "Everyday I Have The Blues", "For Once In My Life", "Funky Side of Town", "Gravity", "Have a Happy Day", "I Can't Stand It", "Goliath", "I Got a Bag of My Own", "I Got Ants In My Pants", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" 1975 version, "I Never, Never, Never Will Forget", "If You Don't Give a Dogone About It", "It's Too Funky In Here", "Licking Stick" live Newport 1969, "Living In America", "A Man Understands", "Nature", "Papa Don't Take No Mess", "People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul", "People Who Criticize", "Popcorn 80s", "Rapp Payback", "September Song", "She Looks All Types A'Good", "Shoot Your Shot", "Smokin' And Drinkin", "The Spank", "Stone Cold Drag", "Stone to the Bone", "Think" 1973 version, "This Feeling", "Time To Get Busy", "Turn Me Loose, I'm Doctor Feelgood", "The Twist", "What The World Needs Now Is Love", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Woman", "You Took My Heart", "Your Love Was Good For Me", "You're Still Out Of Sight")
C♯6 ("Baby You're Right", "Cold Sweat Pt. 2", "The Future Shock of the World", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" 1976 version, "I'm Broken Hearted", "Please, Please", "So Long" 1976 version)
C6 ("Don't Cry Baby", "Get Up Offa That Thing", "Have a Happy Day", "I'm Satisfied", "Regrets", "Somebody Changed The Lock On My Door", "The Things That I Used To Do")
B5 ("Doing The Best I Can", "Dance, Dance, Dance to the Funk", "For Once In My Life", "Georgia On My Mind" live Paris 1971, "I Don't Care", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" 1975 version, "I've Got Money", "Please, Please", "Please Please Please" Live Tampa 1966, "Stormy Monday", "Sweet Lorraine")
B♭5 ("Are We Really Dancing", "The Future Shock of the World", "Hold It", "How Long Darling", "I Don't Care", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" 1976 version, "I'm Real", "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year", "Only You", "Shout And Shimmy", "Something", "Still", "Watch Me")
A5 ("Ain't That a Groove", "For You My Love", "Further On Up The Road", "Just You And Me Darling", "My Part/Make It Funky", "Oh Baby Don't You Weep", "The Original Disco Man", "People Wake Up and Live", "Tell Me What I Did Wrong", "You Don't Have To Go" 1966 version)
G♯5 ("Again", "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens", "Baby You're Right", "Caldonia", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Goodbye My Love", "Heart Break (It's Hurtin' Me)", "Just Do It", "Just You And Me Darling", "Let The Boogie Do The Rest", "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year", "The Nearness of You", "Peace In The World", "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Somebody Changed The Lock On My Door", "Still", "Sweet Lorraine")
G5 ("Ain't That a Groove", "Blues For My Baby", "Bring It Up", "Cold Sweat Pt. 2", "For You My Love", "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Have Mercy Baby", "Hold It", "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)", "How Long Darling", "I Don't Care", "I've Got Money", "It's a New Day", "Just Do It", "Let Them Talk", "A Lonely Little Boy Around One Little Christmas Toy", "Maybe The Last Time", "Mother Popcorn Pt. 1", "Out Of The Blue", "September Song", "Signed, Sealed and Delivered", "Signs of Christmas", "Sweet Little Baby Boy", "Tell Me That You Love Me", "Three Hearts In A Tangle", "Waiting In Vain", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You")
F♯5 ("Aint It Funky Now", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Can't Get Any Harder", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Get It Together", "I Can't Stand It" 1998 version, "I'm a Greedy Man", "Is It Yes or Is It No?", "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World", "Oh Baby Don't You Weep", "Peace In The World", "So Long", "Stone Fox", "There It Is", "What It Takes", "Wonder When You're Coming Home", "You're Still Out Of Sight")
F5 ("Again", "Any Day Now", "Baby You're Right", "Bewildered" live Paris 1971, "Blues & Pants", "Bring It Up", "Brother Rapp", "Caldonia", "Christmas In Heaven", "Come Over Here", "Don't Cry Baby", "Everyday I Have The Blues", "Fever", "Goodbye My Love", "Hot Pants Road", "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 2", "I Got Ants In My Pants", "I Got The Feelin'", "I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)", "It Won't Be Me", "It's a New Day", "Kare" "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year", "Love Don't Love Nobody", "The Man In The Glass", "Maybe The Last Time", "Merry Christmas Baby", "Mother Popcorn Pt. 2", "Motivation", "The Nearness of You", "Nobody Knows", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" Extended version, "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Please, Please", "Prisoner of Love", "Santa Claus, Santa Claus", "September Song", "Shout And Shimmy", "(So Tired of Standing Still We Got) Move On, "Sometime" 1974 version, "Superbad", "Take Some - Leave Some", "That's My Desire", "There Was a Time", "Waiting In Vain", "Why Did You Take Your Love Away From Me", "Willow Weep For Me", "World", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You")
E5 ("The Bells", "Billy Bailey", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Georgia On My Mind", "Get Up, Get Into It", "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose", "I Can't Help It(I Just Do-Do-Do)", "I Can't Stand It", "I Need Help (I Can't Do It Alone)", "If I Ruled the World" live Newport 1969, "I'm a Greedy Man", "Is It Yes or Is It No?", "Let Them Talk", "Like a Baby", "Living In America", "Mashed Potato Popcorn Pt. 2", "Maybe I'll Understand, Pt. 2", "Mine All Mine", "Money Won't Change You", "People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul", "Suffering With The Blues", "Talk To Me, Talk To Me", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "There It Is", "Turn Me Loose, I'm Doctor Feelgood")
E♭5 ("And I Do Just What I Want", "Bring It Up", "Can't Get Any Harder", "Everyday I Have The Blues", "Fever", "Funk On Ah Roll", "Further On Up The Road", "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine", "Heart Break (It's Hurtin' Me)", "Hey America", "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)", "How Long Darling", "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1", "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 2", "I Love You", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons", "I've Got Money", "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World", "Kansas City", "Let a Man Come In And Do The Popcorn", "Let Yourself Go", "Make It Good To Yourself", "A Man Has to Go Back To The Crossroads", "The Man In The Glass", "Need Your Love So Bad", "Prisoner of Love", "Return To Me", "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud", "So Long", "Somebody Changed The Lock On My Door", "Soulful Christmas", "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing", "There Was a Time", "Three Hearts In A Tangle", "You Got To Have a Job (If You Don't Work You Can't Eat)", "You're Still Out Of Sight")
D5 ("Ain't That a Groove", "And I Do Just What I Want", "Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby", "Baby You're Right", "Big Strong", "Blues For My Baby", "Brother Rapp", "Christmas Is Love", "The Christmas Song - Version 2", "Cold Sweat Pt. 1", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Dance, Dance, Dance to the Funk", "Doing The Best I Can", "Don't Fence Me In", "For Once In My Life", "Forever Suffering", "Funky Drummer", "Get Up, Get Into It", "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose", "Have Mercy Baby", "Home At Least", "Hot Pants Road", "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)", "I Can't Stand It", "I Don't Hear No Music", "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open The Door I'll Get It Myself)", "I Got a Bag of My Own", "I Got You (I Feel Good)", "I Loves You Porgy", "I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)", "I'll Never Let You Go", "I'm Not Demanding", "I'm Your Christmas Friend, Don't Be Hungry", "Just You And Me Darling", "Let It Be Me", "Like a Baby", "Like It Is, Like It Was", "A Lonely Little Boy Around One Little Christmas Toy", "Lost Someone" 1974 version, "Mashed Potato Popcorn Pt. 1", "Mashed Potato Popcorn Pt. 2", "Maybe I'll Understand Pt. 1", "Maybe I'll Understand, Pt. 2", "Maybe The Last Time", "Mother Popcorn Pt. 1", "Mother Popcorn Pt. 2", "Oh Baby Don't You Weep", "Only You", "Out Of The Blue", "Papa Don't Take No Mess", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" Extended version, "People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul", "Sayin' It and Doin' It", "She Looks All Types A'Good", "Shout And Shimmy", "Signed, Sealed and Delivered", "Signs of Christmas", "Slaughter Theme", "Sometime" 1974 version, "Stagger Lee", "Superbad", "Superbad, Superslick", "Sweet Little Baby Boy", "Teardrops On Your Letter", "That's My Desire", "There It Is", "There Was a Time", "Time After Time", "Time To Get Busy", "The Twist", "Watch Me", "What Kind of Fool Am I?", "Who Am I", "Wonder When You're Coming Home", "World", "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Your Love Was Good For Me")
C♯5 ("Ain't It Funky Now", "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens", "Baby You've Got What It Takes", "Billy Bailey", "Blues & Pants", "Don't Tell a Lie About Me and I Won't Tell the Truth On You", "Down And Out In New York City", "Fever", "Further On Up The Road", "Goliath", "Goodbye My Love", "I Guess I'll Have To Cry Cry Cry", "I Love You", "I'll Go Crazy", "I'm Broken Hearted", "I've Got Money", "Is It Yes or Is It No?", "Let a Man Come In And Do The Popcorn", "Let Them Talk", "Let Yourself Go", "Licking Stick", "Mind Power", "Night Train", "Nothing Beats a Try But a Fail", "Nothing But a Jam", "Somebody Changed The Lock On My Door", "Static", "Take Some - Leave Some", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "The Things That I Used To Do", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Why Did This Happen To Me", "World")
C5 ("Again", "Ain't That a Groove", "And I Do Just What I Want", "Any Day Now", "Automatic (Remix)", "Bewildered", "The Boss", "Brother Rapp", "Caldonia", "Chicago", "The Christmas Song - Version 2", "Cold Sweat Pt. 1", "Cold Sweat Pt. 2", "Coldblooded", "Come Over Here", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Dance, Dance, Dance to the Funk", "Deep In It", "Doing The Best I Can", "Don't Cry Baby", "Don't Let It Happen To Me", "Don't Tell It", "Escape-ism", "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes", "For You My Love", "Funky Drummer", "Funky Side of Town", "Get It Together", "Georgia On My Mind", "Get On The Good Foot", "Get Up Off of Me", "Go Power At Christmas Time", "Have a Happy Day", "Have Mercy Baby", "Hold It", "Hold My Baby's Hand", "Home At Least", "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)", "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)", "I Can't Help It(I Just Do-Do-Do)", "I Cried", "I Don't Care", "I Don't Mind", "I Got Ants In My Pants", "I Got The Feelin'", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons", "I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)", "I Won't Plead No More", "I'll Never Let You Go", "I'm Not Demanding", "I'm Real", "If I Ruled The World" 1969 version, "If You Want Me", "It Won't Be Me", "It's Magic", "It's Time to Love (Put a Little Love In Your Heart)", "Just Do It", "Just You And Me Darling", "Kansas City", "Kare", "Keep Keepin'", "Killing Is Out, School Is In", "Like a Baby", "Like It Is, Like It Was", "Lost Someone" 1974 version, "Love Don't Love Nobody", "Love Me Tender", "Mama's Dead", "A Man Has to Go Back To The Crossroads", "The Man In The Glass", "Mine All Mine", "My Part/Make It Funky", "My Thang", "Need Your Love So Bad", "Nobody Knows", "Out Of Sight", "Out Of The Blue", "Papa Don't Take No Mess", "The Payback", "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Please, Please", "Popcorn 80s", "Prisoner of Love", "Public Enemy #1", "Regrets", "Repeat The Beat (Faith)", "Return To Me", "Santa Claus, Santa Claus", "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud", "September Song", "Send Her Back To Me (Remix)", "Shoot Your Shot", "Slaughter Theme", "So Long", "(So Tired of Standing Still We Got) Move On", "Something", "Sometime", "Stagger Lee", "Stone to the Bone", "Strangers In The Night", "Sunny", "Sweet Lorraine", "Talk To Me, Talk To Me", "Tell Me That You Love Me", "That's Life", "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)", "This Feeling", "Till Then", "Time After Time", "Waiting In Vain", "What It Takes", "What Kind of Fool Am I?", "Who Am I", "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)", "Why Did You Take Your Love Away From Me", "Why Do You Do Me", "Willow Weep For Me", "Woman" 1976 version, "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Your Love", "Your Love Was Good For Me", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You", "You Took My Heart", "You've Got The Power", "You've Got To Change Your Mind")
B4 ("Aint It Funky Now", "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens", "The Bells", "Bodyheat", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Can't Git Enuf", "Christmas In Heaven", "Dancin' Little Thing", "(Do The) Mashed Potatoes", "Doing The Best I Can", "Don't Tell a Lie About Me and I Won't Tell the Truth On You", "Eden", "Fine Old Foxy Self", "For Once In My Life", "Heart Break (It's Hurtin' Me)", "Hell", "I Cried","I Don't Hear No Music", "I Need Help (I Can't Do It Alone)", "I Never, Never, Never Will Forget", "I Walked Alone", "I Wanna Be Around", "I Want To Be Around", "If I Ruled The World", "Is It Yes or Is It No?", "It's Your Money$", "Just Won't Do Right (I Stay In The Chapel Every Night)", "Kiss In '77", "Let It Be Me", "Let Them Talk", "A Lonely Little Boy Around One Little Christmas Toy", "Lost Someone", "Love Or A Game", "Mind Power", "Lucky Old Sun", "Night Train", "Nothing Beats a Try But a Fail", "Only You", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "Peace In The World", "Problems", "Reality", "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy", "Show Me", "Still", "Stormy Monday", "Sweet Little Baby Boy", "Teardrops On Your Letter", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "They Don't Want Music", "Three Hearts In A Tangle", "Time To Get Busy", "Turn Me Loose, I'm Doctor Feelgood", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Why Did This Happen To Me", "You Are My Everything", "You Got To Have a Job (If You Don't Work You Can't Eat)", "You're Mine, You're Mine")
B♭4 ("All For One", "As Long As I Love You", "Automatic (Remix)", "Baby You've Got What It Takes", "Bessie", "Big Strong", "Billy Bailey", "Blues & Pants", "The Boss", "Check Your Body", "Chonnie-On-Chon", "Christmas Is Love", "Deep In It", "Don't Fence Me In", "Don't Tell It", "Down And Out In New York City", "Eyesight", "Fever", "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes", "Funk On Ah Roll", "Funky Men", "Further On Up The Road", "Funky President (People It's Bad)", "Get It Together", "Get It Together, Pt. 2", "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine", "Give Me Some Skin", "Good And Natural", "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Goodbye My Love", "Hey America", "Home At Least", "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)", "How Do You Stop", "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1", "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 2", "I Don't Know", "I Got Ants In My Pants", "I Guess I'll Have To Cry Cry Cry", "I Know It's True", "I Love You", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons", "I Refuse To Lose", "I Won't Plead No More", "I'll Go Crazy", "I'll Never Let You Go", "I'm a Greedy Man", "I'm Broken Hearted", "I'm Real", "I'm Satisfied", "I'm Your Christmas Friend, Don't Be Hungry", "I've Got To Change", "If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try Again, Party", "It Had To Be You", "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World", "It's Magic", "Jam", "Just Won't Do Right", "Later For Dancing", "Let a Man Come In And Do The Popcorn", "Let's Get Personal", "Let's Make It", "Let's Unite the Whole World at Christmas", "Licking Stick", "Make It Good To Yourself", "A Man Has to Go Back To The Crossroads", "Mashed Potatoes U.S.A.", "Maybe The Last Time", "Merry Christmas, I Love You", "Mona Lisa", "Motivation", "My Thang", "Need Your Love So Bad", "Nothing But a Jam", "Out Of Sight", "Papa Don't Take No Mess", "The Payback", "People Who Criticize", "Please, Please, Please", "Rapp Payback", "Regrets", "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto", "Santa Claus, Santa Claus", "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud", "Send Her Back To Me (Remix)", "Signs of Christmas", "(So Tired of Standing Still We Got) Move On", "Something", "Soulful Christmas", "Standing On Higher Ground", "Star Generation", "Stay With Me", "Strangers In The Night", "Summertime", "Sunny", "Sunshine", "Take Me Higher and Groove Me", "Talk To Me, Talk To Me", "Take Some - Leave Some", "Tell Me What I Did Wrong", "That Dood It", "That's Sweet Music", "There Was a Time", "Time After Time", "Turn On The Heat And Build Some Fire", "Watch Me", "What It Takes", "What The World Needs Now Is Love", "The Whole World Needs Liberation", "Why Did This Happen To Me", "Why Did You Take Your Love Away From Me", "Willow Weep For Me", "You And Me", "You're My Only Love")
A4 ("Are We Really Dancing", "Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby", "Begging Begging", "Bodyheat", "Break Away", "Brother Rapp", "Calm & Cool", "Can't Get Any Harder", "Can't Take It With You", "Chicago", "The Christmas Song - Version 2", "Coldblooded", "Dead On It", "Escape-ism", "Fine Old Foxy Self", "Forever Suffering", "Funky Side of Town", "Georgia On My Mind", "Get On The Good Foot", "Get Up Offa That Thing", "Give That Bass Player Some", "Good, Good Lovin'", "Gonna Try", "Good Good Lovin'", "Goodnight My Love", "Gravity", "Hell", "Hold My Baby's Hand", "Hustle!!! (Dead On It)", "I Can't Stand It", "I Don't Mind", "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open The Door I'll Get It Myself)", "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On", "I Got a Bag of My Own", "I Got You (I Feel Good)", "I Never, Never, Never Will Forget", "I Walked Alone", "I Wanna Be Around", "I Want To Be Around", "I'm Shook", "If I Ruled The World", "If You Don't Give a Dogone About It", "It's a New Day", "It's Too Funky In Here", "It's Your Money$", "Just Do It", "Kiss In '77", "Later For Dancing", "Let The Funk Flow", "Let's Get Personal", "Like It Is, Like It Was", "The Little Groove Maker Me Pt. 2", "Living In America", "Love Me Tender", "Lucky Old Sun", "Mama's Dead", "A Man Understands", "Mashed Potato Popcorn Pt. 1", "Maybe I'll Understand Pt. 1", "Messing With The Blues", "Money Won't Change You", "Nature", "Never Can Say Goodbye", "Nobody Knows", "The Original Disco Man", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul", "Popcorn 80s", "Repeat The Beat (Faith)", "Public Enemy #1", "Sayin' It and Doin' It", "She Looks All Types A'Good", "Shhhhhh (For a Little While)", "Shoot Your Shot", "Show Me", "Signed, Sealed and Delivered", "Slaughter Theme", "Smokin' And Drinkin", "Someone To Talk To", "Sometime", "Sometimes That's All There Is", "The Spank", "Standing On Higher Ground", "Stone Cold Drag", "Stone to the Bone", "Stormy Monday", "Strange Things Happen", "Sunshine", "Superbad", "Superbad, Superslick", "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing", "Tell Me What You're Gonna Do", "That's Life", "That's My Desire", "That's Sweet Music", "There Was a Time", "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)", "The Things That I Used To Do", "Think", "This Old Heart", "Tit For Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)", "The Twist", "Watch Me", "Why Does Everything Happen To Me", "Woman", "Women Are Something Else", "Wonder When You're Coming Home", "You Got To Have a Job (If You Don't Work You Can't Eat)", "You Took My Heart", "You're Mine, You're Mine", "You're My Only Love", "You've Got The Power", "You've Got To Change Your Mind")

Significant Low Notes:
G3 ("All The Way", "As Long As I Love You", "Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby", "The Bells", "Blues For My Baby", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Calm & Cool", "Christmas Is Love", "Don't Stop The Funk", "Don't Tell It", "Got to Cry", "Have a Happy Day", "Hustle!!! (Dead On It)", "I Don't Care", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" 1976 version, "I Need Help (I Can't Do It Alone)", "I Want You So Bad", "I'm Your Christmas Friend, Don't Be Hungry", "It Hurts To Tell You", "It's Time to Love (Put a Little Love In Your Heart)", "Just Won't Do Right (I Stay In The Chapel Every Night)", "Kiss In '77", "Let The Funk Flow", "Let's Get Personal", "A Lonely Little Boy Around One Little Christmas Toy", "Lucky Old Sun", "Maybe The Last Time", "Mind Power", "My Rapp", "Nothing Beats a Try But a Fail", "The Original Disco Man", "Reality", "Sayin' It and Doin' It", "Shhhhhh (For a Little While)", "Show Me", "Signed, Sealed and Delivered", "Smokin' And Drinkin", "So Long" 1976 version, "Someone To Talk To", "Something", "Sometimes That's All There Is", "Spring", "Stagger Lee", "Suffering With The Blues", "Summertime", "Superbad", "Take Me Higher and Groove Me", "Take Some - Leave Some", "That's When I Lost My Heart", "Try Me" 1976 version, "Woman" 1976 version, "You Are My Everything", You've Got To Change Your Mind")
F♯3 ("Baby You've Got What It Takes", "Can't Get Any Harder", "Can't Git Enuf", "Don't Fence Me In", "Everyday I Have The Blues", "Funky Men", "Further On Up The Road", "Hell", "How Long Darling", "I Can't Stand It" 1998 version, "I Love You", "Jam", "Just Won't Do Right", "Let a Man Come In And Do The Popcorn", "Make It Good To Yourself", "A Man Has to Go Back To The Crossroads", "Nature Boy", "Soulful Christmas", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "There Was a Time")
F3 ("Any Day Now", "Bewildered" live Paris 1971, "Bodyheat", "Break Away", "Can't Take It With You", "Cottage For Sale", "Eden", "Forever Suffering", "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" Extended album version, "Get Up Off of Me", "Give That Bass Player Some", "Gravity", "Home At Least", "I Love You Yes I Do", "I'll Go Crazy", "I'm Shook", "If You Want Me", "It's Too Funky In Here", "Let The Boogie Do The Rest", "Living In America", "A Man Understands", "Maybe I'll Understand Pt. 1", "Merry Christmas Baby", "Merry Christmas My Baby And a Very, Very Happy New Year", "Mine All Mine", "Mona Lisa", "Most of All", "Nature", "The Nearness of You", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" Extended version, "Someone To Talk To", "The Spank", "Stagger Lee", "Standing On Higher Ground", "Still", "Summertime", "Sunshine", "Superbad, Superslick", "Talk To Me, Talk To Me", "That's My Desire", "This Feeling", "Time To Get Busy", "Turn On The Heat And Build Some Fire", "Waiting In Vain", "Wake Up and Give Yourself a Chance To Live", "What My Baby Needs Now Is A Little More Lovin'", "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)", "Why Did This Happen To Me", "Why Do You Do Me", "You Took My Heart")
E3 ("As Long As I Love You", "The Bells", "By The Time I Get to Phoenix" live Playboy After Dark 1970, "Don't Be a Dropout", "Hustle!!! (Dead On It)", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" 1975 version, "I Love You Yes I Do", "I Never, Never, Never Will Forget", "If I Ruled The World" 1969 version, "It's Your Money$", "Let The Boogie Do The Rest", "Lost Someone", "Mind Power", "People Wake Up and Live", "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto", "Sometimes That's All There Is", "Suffering With The Blues", "Teardrops On Your Letter", "That's When I Lost My Heart", "Till Then", "Why Did This Happen To Me", "Women Are Something Else")
E♭3 ("All For One", "Automatic (Remix)", "Baby You've Got What It Takes", "Calm & Cool", "Deep In It", "Good And Natural", "Home Again", "How Long Darling", "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" 1976 version, "I'm Real", "I'm Satisfied", "Kiss In '77", "Love Me Tender", "Mama's Dead", "Most of All", "Motivation", "Nothing But a Jam", "Please, Please, Please", "Star Generation", "Three Hearts In A Tangle", "Time To Get Busy", "What It Takes", "What The World Needs Now Is Love")
D3 ("Break Away", "The Christmas Song - Version 1", "Escape-ism", "Forever Suffering", "I Don't Hear No Music", "If You Don't Give a Dogone About It", "Like It Is, Like It Was", "A Man Understands", "Merry Christmas Baby", "Merry Christmas My Baby And a Very, Very Happy New Year", "The Nearness of You", "Problems", "Superbad, Superslick", "That's When I Lost My Heart", "Till Then", "The Twist", "What Kind of Fool Am I?", "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)", "Women Are Something Else")
C♯3 ("Eden", "Fever", "Nature Boy", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" 1976 version, "Sunshine")
C3 ("Automatic (Remix)", "Cold Sweat" The James Brown Story version, "Goodnight My Love", "Lucky Old Sun", "Merry Christmas Baby", "Mine All Mine", "Please, Please, Please", "What The World Needs Now Is Love", "Why Do You Do Me", "You Took My Heart")
B2 ("Teardrops On Your Letter")
B♭2 ("Merry Christmas My Baby And a Very, Very Happy New Year", "So Long" "Soul Survivor")
A2 ("Ain't It Funky Now", "Just Do It")
G♯2 ("Say It Again")
F2 (Excerpt from "Soul Survivor")
D2 (Excerpt from "Soul Deep; The Story of Black Popular Music: e1")


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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes
Green marks harsh and/or distorted notes

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{Questionable Notes}
F♯6 ("Chonnie-On-Chon" ^[1])
F6 ("Fine Old Foxy Self" ^[1])
E6 ("Mother Popcorn Pt. 1" ^[1])
E♭6 "Baby Cries Over The Ocean" ^[1], "Any Day Now" ^[5])
C♯6 ("Just Do It" ^[4], "Only You" ^[5])
G5 ("Time After Time" ^[1])

D2 ("Funky President (People It's Bad)" ^[1])
C♯2 ("Peace In The World" ^[3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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{Album Ranges}Please Please Please (1958): C3 - C5 - A5
Try Me! (1959): C3 - C5 - F6
Think (1960): F3 - C♯6
The Amazing James Brown (1961): E3 - A5
Good, Good Twistin' With James Brown (1962): G3 - B♭5
James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. (1962): E♭3 - B5
Prisoner of Love (1963): E♭3 - B♭5
Showtime (1964): G3 - D6
Out of Sight (1964): C♯3 - B♭5
It's a Man's Man's Man's World (1966): E3 - A5
James Brown Sings Christmas Songs (1966): C3 - B♭5 - E6
James Brown Sings Raw Soul (1967): D3 - B♭5 - E♭6
Cold Sweat (1967): C♯3 - G♯5 - E6
I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me (1968): F♯3 - F♯5 - E♭6
I Got the Feelin' (1968): E3 - F5 - E♭6
Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things (1968): E3 - E5 - G♯5
A Soulful Christmas (1968): F♯3 - F5
Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud (1968): F3 - G♯5
Gettin' Down to It (1969): F♯3 - F5
It's a Mother (1969): E3 - G5 - E6
Soul on Top (1970): D3 - G5 - B5- E6
It's a New Day – Let a Man Come In (1970): F♯3 - G5 - E♭6
Hey America (1970): B♭2 - E♭5
Super Bad (1971): F♯3 - F♯5 - F6
Hot Pants (1971): D3 - G5 - D6 - E6
There It Is (1972): G3 - F♯5 - E6
Get on the Good Foot (1972): F3 - G5 - E6
The Payback (1973): D3 - F5 - F6
Hell (1974): F♯3 - F5 - F6
Reality (1974): D3 - A5 - E6
Sex Machine Today (1975): D3 - C5 - F6
Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump (1975): C♯3 - D5 - E6
Hot (1976): C3 - E♭5 - F6
Get Up Offa That Thing (1976): C3 - C5 - C6 - E♭6
Bodyheat (1976): C3 - C5 - D6 - E6
Mutha's Nature (1977): D3 - C5 - F6
Jam 1980's (1978): E3 - B4 - E6
Take a Look at Those Cakes (1978): D3 - C5 - E6
The Original Disco Man (1979): D3 - B♭5 - D6
People (1980): E3 - C5 - C6 - E6
Soul Syndrome (1980): F♯3 - B4 - E♭6
Nonstop! (1981): F3 - C5 - D6
Gravity (1986): F3 - E5 - E6
I'm Real (1988): A2 - D5 - B♭5 - D6 - E6
Love Over-Due (1991): B2 - D5 - B5
Universal James (1993): C3 - E5
I'm Back (1998): C3 - G♯5
The Merry Christmas Album (1999): (Not Avaliable)
The Next Step (2002): (Not Avaliable)

[Vels]

Save dignity and remove that E flat 2 while it's still new fresh thread.

[RINGO]

Sung D2 at 7:59.

[clem]

That is a thicc D6 section

[mrrobot166]

Baritone or tenor

[Bes]

Nov 30, 2020 16:32:53 GMT mrrobot166 said:

Baritone or tenor

Definitely a tenor imo (Yeah, I know what Wikipedia and other sources say, but he's extremely at ease with highs compared to his lows, everyone's voice kinda darkens as they get older and just because your voice is gritty and somewhat booming doesn't mean you're a baritone,just look at Rance Allen)

[IhateMana]

can y'all stop with the vois type discussions?

[kaji]

Nov 30, 2020 16:32:53 GMT mrrobot166 said:

Baritone or tenor

Listen to about 90 seconds into his song ‘Again’. That should answer your question.

Nov 30, 2020 16:50:38 GMT Bes said:

Nov 30, 2020 16:32:53 GMT mrrobot166 said:

Baritone or tenor

Definitely a tenor imo (Yeah, I know what Wikipedia and other sources say, but he's extremely at ease with highs compared to his lows, everyone's voice kinda darkens as they get older and just because your voice is gritty and somewhat booming doesn't mean you're a baritone,just look at Rance Allen)

Wikipedia is absolutely a garbage source regarding anything vocals-related. Very inaccurate. The ‘sources’ they use... mind-boggling.

[Platypus]

G5

[mrrobot166]

Is there overtones

[kaji]

Dec 10, 2020 17:29:34 GMT mrrobot166 said:

Is there overtones

Every sung note will have overtones, even whistles. 

[Deleted]

Dec 3, 2020 3:57:29 GMT kaji said:

Nov 30, 2020 16:32:53 GMT mrrobot166 said:

Baritone or tenor

Listen to about 90 seconds into his song ‘Again’. That should answer your question.

Nov 30, 2020 16:50:38 GMT Bes said:

Definitely a tenor imo (Yeah, I know what Wikipedia and other sources say, but he's extremely at ease with highs compared to his lows, everyone's voice kinda darkens as they get older and just because your voice is gritty and somewhat booming doesn't mean you're a baritone,just look at Rance Allen)

Wikipedia is absolutely a garbage source regarding anything vocals-related. Very inaccurate. The ‘sources’ they use... mind-boggling.

Yeah. When it comes to voice stuff, Wikipedia sucks. For example, Wikipedia claims that Bill Kenney from The Ink Spots had a 4 octave range.

[Homelander]

The link to the D2 is down. (Not that it was a very good note anyway...)

Edit: The F♯6 link is also down. Here is a replacement.

Here is the link to the other F♯6, in case you want to link that instead.

[kaji]

Honestly James Brown having a D2 is a hilarious thought.

[Steingrim]

Dec 18, 2023 15:23:11 GMT kaji said:

Honestly James Brown having a D2 is a hilarious thought.

If someone could find a fry A0 (bottom of the piano) from him, then it would be interesting. I haven't encountered anyone who could manage a half melodic one, yet.