Mother Popcorn – James Brown

“Mother Popcorn” is a get-down phenomenon by the Godfather of everything, James Brown.

Mr. Please-Please and Maceo Parker go head to head in a wild episode called “Mother Popcorn”. This live performance version captures the dynamic between James Brown’s voice and other instruments of Funk that come together on this Classic Soulful jammy (in a Rare Live performance).

Here’s an interesting critique from an article dedicated to James Brown’s “Popcorn” music at wmfu.org:

When “The Popcorn” clicked, though, the Godfather moved-fast. (This, please note, was in a year when he released 13 singles and 4 albums, and that’s just counting the ones under his own name.) On May 13, he hybridized the words of “You Got To Have A Mother For Me” with the basic groove of “The Popcorn,” and came up with “Mother Popcorn,” one of the most monstrously funky records ever made. I will, in fact, nominate Clyde Stubblefield’s cymbal smash four minutes or so into it as the single greatest instant in the history of recorded sound. Released in June, “Mother Popcorn,” despite its weird title, became a humongous hit: #1 on the R&B charts, #11 pop.

Peep Maceo Parker’s website here, and a James Brown .

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