LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MAY 3, 2019…JAMES BROWN, THE GODFATHER OF SOUL, WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1933. TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 86TH BIRTHDAY. BROWN DIED ON DECEMBER 5, 2006. THE SADDEST ASPECT OF BROWN’S DEATH WAS IT TOOK 76 DAYS FOR HIS BURIAL, AS HIS BODY WAS DISMEMBERED AS PART OF A PATERNITY SUIT. HIS BODY WAS ACTUALLY RELOCATED 14 TIMES BECAUSE OF FAMILY INFIGHTING.
THIS IS VINTAGE JAMES BROWN FROM A 1974 APPEARANCE ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL.
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