"Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses)" is a song performed by
James Brown. It is a
disco reworking of his 1974 song "
The Payback
''The Payback'' is the 37th studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in December 1973, by Polydor Records. It was originally scheduled to become the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film ''Hell Up in Harlem'', but w ...
". Released as a two-part
single
Single may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Single (music), a song release
Songs
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* "Single", by ...
on
TK Records
TK Records was an American independent record label founded by record distributor Henry Stone and Steve Alaimo in 1972. and based in Hialeah, Florida. The record label went bankrupt in 1981.
"TK" was inspired by the initials of sound engineer ...
in 1980, it charted #46
R&B.
[Leeds, Alan, and Harry Weinger (1991). "Star Time: Song by Song". In ''Star Time'' (pp. 46–53) ]D booklet
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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New York: PolyGram Records. It also appeared on the album ''Soul Syndrome''.
Brown performed the song on the December 13, 1980 episode of
Saturday Night Live
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, alongside a medley of his earlier hit songs.
References
James Brown songs
Songs written by James Brown
1980 singles
1980 songs
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