Soul On Top:James Brown

Soul on Top is an album by James Brown. Brown and saxophonist Maceo Parker worked with arranger/conductor Oliver Nelson to record a big band,funk and jazz vocal album. It was recorded with Louie Bellson and his 18-piece jazz orchestra at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, California in November 1969, and features jazz standards, show tunes, and middle of the road hits, as well as a new arrangement of Brown's funk hit "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag".

The album was reissued in 2004 with one previously unreleased bonus track, a big band version of Brown's 1967 hit "There Was a Time", and newliner notes by jazz critic Will Friedwald.

Contents[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"That's My Desire"	Helmy Kressa, Carroll Loveday	4:10
2.	"Your Cheatin' Heart"	Hank Williams	2:59
3.	"What Kind of Fool Am I?"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	3:06
4.	"It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" (Unedited Version)	James Brown, Betty Jean Newsome	6:40
5.	"The Man in the Glass"	Bud Hobgood	5:56
6.	"It's Magic"	Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne	3:14
7.	"September Song" (Unedited Version)	Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill	5:02
8.	"For Once in My Life" (Unedited Version)	Ron Miller, Orlando Murden	4:43
9.	"Every Day I Have the Blues" (Unedited Version)	Memphis Slim	4:28
10.	"I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)"	Louie Bellson	3:46
11.	"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"	Brown	4:41
12.	"There Was a Time" (2004 reissue only)	Brown, Hobgood	3:04