For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes
Appearance
"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 1)" | ||||
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Single by James Brown | ||||
from the album Take a Look at Those Cakes | ||||
B-side | "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 2)" | |||
Released | October 1978 | |||
Genre | Funk | |||
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Label | Polydor 14522 | |||
Songwriter(s) |
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Producer(s) | James Brown | |||
James Brown charting singles chronology | ||||
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Audio video | ||||
"For Goodness Sakes, Take A Look At Those Cakes (Pt.1)" on YouTube |
"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is a song written and performed by James Brown. Released as an edited two-part single in 1978, it charted #52 R&B in 1979.[1][2] A full-length version appears on the album Take a Look at Those Cakes. Brown talks loudly and clearly in rhyme with only brief singing involved, this track being in part a precursor to the hip hop style which was yet to mount on record in a few years time. Robert Christgau described the song as "a great throwaway--an eleven-minute rumination on ass-watching, including genuinely tasteless suggestions that Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder join the fun."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Take a Look at Those Cakes - James Brown". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
- ^ White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
- ^ "CG: Artist 1793". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2016-10-13.