James Brown hit the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 or Billboard Top R&B Singles in each of four decades.
1956: "Please, Please, Please"
1959: "Try Me"
1960: "Think"
1961: "Baby, You're Right"
1961: "Bewildered"
1961: "I Don't Mind"
1962: "Lost Someone"
1962: "Night Train"
1963: "Prisoner of Love"
1965: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"
1965: "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
1966: "Ain't That a Groove"
1966: "Don't Be A Drop-Out"
1966: "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
1966: "Sweet Little Baby Boy"
1967: "Cold Sweat"
1967: "Let Yourself Go"
1968: "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)"
1968: "I Got The Feelin"'
1968: "Licking Stick — Licking Stick"
1968: "Say it Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud"
1968: "There Was A Time"
1969: "Ain't It Funky Now"
1969: "Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose"
1969: "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)"
1969: "Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn"
1969: "Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me)"
1970: "Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like A) Sex Machine"
1970: "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay"
1970: "Super Bad"
1971: "Escape-ism"
1971: "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved"
1971: "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)"
1971: "I'm A Greedy Man"
1971: "Make It Funky"
1971: "Soul Power"
1972: "Get On The Good Foot"
1972: "King Heroin"
1972: "Talking Loud And Saying Nothing"
1973: "I Got A Bag Of My Own"
1973: "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy"
1974: "Funky President (People It's Bad)"
1974: "My Thang"
1974: "Papa Don't Take No Mess"
1974: "Stone To The Bone"
1974: "The Payback"
1976: "Get Up Offa That Thing"
1985: "Living in America"
1946 - 2006
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)"
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Henry Corden the voice of Fred Flinstone - He was 85.
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Rest In Peace .... MAX 1995 - 2005
MISSING OUR DOGS
Old Men miss many dogs.
They only live a dozen years,if that,
And by the time you are sixty, there are several
The names of which evoke remembering smiles.
You see them in your mind,heads cocked and seated.
You see them by your bed, or in the rain,
Or sleeping by the fire by nights
And always dying.
They are remembered like departed children
Though they gave vastly more than ever they took,
And finally you're seeing dogs that look like them.
They pass you in the street but never turn
Although it seems they should,their faces so familiar.
Old men miss many dogs.
--Steve Allen
