"Coldblooded" is a song written and recorded by James Brown. It was released in 1974 as the
B-side
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Funky President (People It's Bad)
"Funky President (People It's Bad)" is a funk song by James Brown. Released as a single
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Single (music), a song release
Songs
* "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004
* "Single" (Ne ...
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Pop
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Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
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* ''Pop'' (G ...
. It also appeared on the album '' Hell''. Writing in ''
Rolling Stone
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Robert Palmer
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and wikt:sartorial, sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining Soul music, so ...
praised the song as a "sure-fire disco
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the kind of no-nonsense party music one expects from Soul Brother Number One."
Personnel
* James Brown - vocals
* Isaiah "Ike" Oakley - trumpet
*
Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley (born July 4, 1943) is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s and Parliament-Funkadelic in the second half of the 1970s.
Biography
Wesley was born the son of a high school teacher and big band le ...
- trombone
*
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker (; born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s and Prince in the 2000s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many o ...
- alto sax
* Jimmy Parker - alto sax
*
St. Clair Pinckney
St. Clair Pinckney (September 17, 1930 – February 1, 1999) was an American saxophonist who performed with James Brown as a member of the James Brown Orchestra and The J.B.'s. He played tenor and baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone is ...
- tenor sax
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Jimmy Nolen
Jimmy Nolen (April 3, 1934 – December 18, 1983) - accessed November 13, 2011 was an American
- guitar
* Hearlon "Cheese" Martin - guitar
*
Fred Thomas Frederick or Fred Thomas may refer to:
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*Fred Thomas (manager), Major League Baseball manager of the 1887 Indianapolis Hoosiers
*Fred Thomas (third baseman) (1892–1986), Major League Baseball player
*Fred Thomas (cornerback) (born 1 ...
- bass
*
John "Jabo" Starks
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- drums
* Johnny Griggs - congas
* Fred Wesley or Bob Both - percussionLeeds, Alan (1995). ''Hell''
D liner notes
D, or d, is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''dee'' (pronounced ), plural ''dees''.
History
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