What's the name of that song that goes: "James Brooooooooooown, James Broooooooooown!"?

Question

It's an 80's funk song! Sounds like The Gap Band or something.

Mariah Carey used a sample of this song for one of hers.

Answer 1

Tom Tom Club, song is called 'Genius of Love', I think it was from 1982, side project with two members of Talking Heads, thats why it sounded like funk! =)

Answer 2

I've heard of a song called "Free James Brown!", done in the late 80s. The song was done in a recording studio that had just wrapped up some work for Johnny Cash. I believe the place was called "Studio In The Country", where Kansas did their breakout album "Leftoverture".

Some well partied studio techs, a few members of Cash's band and some various friends all snuck into the studio and hastily put together a funky rap piece that tounge in cheek protested James Brown's jail conviction.

This might be the song you're looking for. I don't know what "name" of the group the folks recorded it used. I do know, however, that costs to produce the song quietly got billed to Cash.....up to when he later found out--and was ballistic about the matter. And yes: I've heard Mariah Carey's sampling of what I believe to be this very song I mention.

Answer 3

"Genius Of Love" by the Tom Tom Club

What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I'm gonna have some fun
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun

I'm in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
There's no beginning and there is no end
Time isn't present in that dimention
He'll take my arm
When we're walkin', rolling and rocking
It's one time I'm glad I'm not a man
Feels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleeping

I'm in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley
Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie

All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.

Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown

If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he's the genius of love
He's got a greater depth of feeling
Well he's the genius of love
He's so deep.

Answer 4

genius of love by tom tom club

Answer 5

I don't Knooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!

Answer 6

i though it was rick jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames