The soundtrack for James Brown biopic Get On Up includes this previously unreleased live cut of Please Please Please recorded on April 23, 1966, at the Fort Homer W. Hosterly Armory in Tampa.

Brown’s voice — that iconic rasp — doesn’t actually appear all that often on “James Brown and His Revue: Live at the Apollo Vol. IV.” ...

On Aug. 7, 1968, at Vox Studios in Los Angeles, James Brown and his namesake band recorded "Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud,” a song the singer co-wrote with his saxophonist Alfred "Pee ...

The latest release of James Brown's music, Get Down with James Brown: Live at the Apollo Vol 4, was recorded in 1972 — and finally released this year. The names James Brown and Apollo Theater ...

The Godfather of Soul digs into his vast catalog of hit songs for a night of music, recorded live in concert from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. This program was originally webcast on NPR.org ...

Officially, Brown recorded three live albums at the Apollo: the blockbuster 1963 original, 1968’s Live at the Apollo, Volume II, and Revolution of the Mind, a take-no-prisoners double album also ...

Nick Rashad Burroughs Is James Brown Live will recreate two of Brown’s legendary performances, including his appearance with the Famous Flames on the T.A.M.I show in 1964 and his 1971 appearance ...

Excerpted from "James Brown's LIve at the Apollo" by Douglas Wolk (Continuum, 2004). Reprinted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing. SWEAT ...

For a time, he even launched his own James Brown trading stamps, which Black businesses could redeem. “It was the Black cryptocurrency of the 1960s,” Riley said.

James Brown liked Eddie Murphy’s celebrity hot tub skit on “Saturday Night Live” so much that he suggested the comedian play him in a biopic.

Now, Get Down with James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4 is finally out on vinyl, with a CD to follow this summer.