How can they just sit there? Got to get up for the Godfather and his stage full of Maestros! What a show!!!!!

@Dwight2744

11 ай 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

11 ай бұрын

check out "Sex Machine - James Brown | The Midnight Special" James Brown MAKES everyone "get on up!"

@jonhowe2960

11 ай бұрын

Get Up Offa That Thing is rather unambiguous

@SOALNightLive

11 ай бұрын

He did suggest they 'get up offa that thing".

@moorlock2003

11 ай бұрын

The sterile environment of a TV studio does not compare with a concert hall.

That guitar is so funky you can't even look at it.

@archangelrapheal5231

23 күн бұрын

Ikr, love it

The good old days!

You can see where Prince got his microphone moves from!

@gregoryduncan3067

11 ай бұрын

Michael Jackson picked up a thing or two from him as well.

@StephanieJeanne

11 ай бұрын

Oh yes! James was the GOAT!

@bOmBAsTiK

11 ай бұрын

@@gregoryduncan3067 As did Mick Jagger, John Mellencamp, Paul Young, Trent D'Arby, MC Hammer et al...

@benscr

Ай бұрын

@@gregoryduncan3067True, and Michael Jackson always openly praised James Brown as a major influence on him.

James Brown Superstar....

And a rhythm section second to none!!

THE Hardest Working Man In Show Business

The Midnight Special was the absolute BEST show..

@themidnightspecialtvshow

11 ай бұрын

I agree with You Nivasi, Burt Sugarman

I feel good!

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!

Quickest feet in the land. James in his prime. 🕺🏻🕺🏻👏🏼👏🏼Midnight Special should be in the Smithsonian.

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!!

The Hardest Working Man in Show Business does it again! These videos are the best. Thanks Midnight Special.

James Brown was a fireball!!🔥🔥 I don't see how those people stayed in their seats!Great song to start the week!

@SnarlaRae

11 ай бұрын

Im thinking it was cuz of cameta placement, set up and space. There is no way I coulda just sat there.

@StephanieJeanne

11 ай бұрын

@@SnarlaRae yeah! Me either! 🙌✌️

@gregoryduncan3067

11 ай 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

11 ай бұрын

@@gregoryduncan3067 😆 That's true, but I woulda got on up on that stage if necessary, or stepped on some people! LOL

@gregoryduncan3067

11 ай бұрын

@@StephanieJeanne Then Burt would've kicked you out but you wouldn't have cared, right?

IM WITNESSING PRINCE SENIOR HERE!

Great singer, but just an all-around great performer!! Awesome back ground dancers! 💃💃 Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖

when bro catches the mic with his shoulder 😂

@shawnhallmon9245

2 ай бұрын

Yo I know man I kept rewatching that part

I got up offa that thing.

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

11 ай бұрын

He wasn't wearing women's heels while he was doing them though

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.

@kepler240

5 ай бұрын

Yes. Show it.

@uncleboyd5023

5 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.

@DrBelser12

24 күн бұрын

Wow would love to see that!!

Godfather of soul!

The song It Takes Two has some James Brown yell’s playing in the beat.

The BAND!!!!!!!!!

@kepler240

5 ай бұрын

The BANANA!!!!!!!!

The legend! Still love james browwn!!!

Love him! 💜💕💔❤💖...have since I was 12 or 13

I’d be mad, working that hard for that audience, damn

🌞Gratitude 🌞

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The dancing banana is awesome.

The Godfather performing one of my favorites! I love it! ☮️🖖🏽

Thank you very much for this video. Please upload Muddy Waters appearance on the Midnight Special.

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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)

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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 😂😂😂😂

Le roi de la funk 💥👏👐

GOOD GOD!

Good God

The Dance Machine

THE G.O.A.T

JB ... I bow down

Aren't any entertainers today (2023) that can sing and dance as well as the Godfather. Kudos!

9 inches

I have a sudden urge to get up off of things...not sure why 😂

They must have told the audience not to stand up!

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

Just a shame it wasn't a completely live recording

@Tensen01

11 ай бұрын

What part of it wasn't live?

@paulhopkins8148

11 ай бұрын

@@Tensen01 The audience.

From understanding, they were told to sit there and don't make a scthe same comment comment

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)

Can anybody help me? What is he saying at 2:06?

@kepler240

5 ай бұрын

Gimmie those funky horns

@VinVonVoom

3 ай бұрын

Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme AOW!

What thing? ❤

@kepler240

5 ай бұрын

Thumb tack

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...????

The audience is not listening 😁

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

@mchavez219

9 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!!👍👍

@VinVonVoom

3 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.

@bOmBAsTiK

3 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...✌🏽✊🏽

Here from Kendrick

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

11 ай 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

11 ай 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

11 ай 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

@VinVonVoom

3 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.

Crowd was not prepared. They couldn’t handle the funk. Essentially they were paralyzed in shock. Poor white folks…

To quote Jim Carrey...."...SMOKIN!!!!..."