Maybe it’s some kind of self-preservation thing, but every time I’ve tried to read the news this evening, I’ve found myself magically transported to the world of James Brown. I’m not even sure how it happens. One minute, I’m reading about how the White House is blaming the Obama administration for today’s deadly gas attack in Syria, and the next I’m watching James Brown collapsing in a pool of sweat on Italian television in the late ’60s… For those of you who aren’t familiar with Brown, who billed himself as the Godfather of Soul, he’s kind of like a black Wayne Cochran.
The world is burning, and I can’t stop watching James Brown videos
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I believe Wayne Cochran called himself White Knight of Soul, which always sounded kind of KKK like to me
Wayne Cochran had to have started as an evangelist.
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
James Brown was super human.
If you’d like to learn to dance like him, he made an instructional video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22HNAPQXNdI
The best part is at 1:17, just after doing the robot, when he mimes the grabbing of an enormous penis.
This is the second time Wayne Cochran came up today. Weird. Paul Schaffer mentioned him on Maron’s podcast. When Paul interviewed w Letterman for the bandleader job, Shaffer said he wanted to do an R&B band for the show, and Letterman replied, “Good. I’ve always thought of myself as the Wayne Cochran of comedy.”