Soul on Top

The album was reissued in 2004 with one previously unreleased bonus track, a big band version of Brown's 1967 hit "There Was a Time", and new liner notes by jazz critic Will Friedwald.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"That's My Desire"	Helmy Kressa, Carroll Loveday	4:10
2.	"Your Cheatin' Heart"	Hank Williams	2:59
3.	"What Kind of Fool Am I?"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	3:06
4.	"It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" (Unedited Version)	James Brown, Betty Jean Newsome	6:40
5.	"The Man in the Glass"	Bud Hobgood	5:56
6.	"It's Magic"	Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne	3:14
7.	"September Song" (Unedited Version)	Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill	5:02
8.	"For Once in My Life" (Unedited Version)	Ron Miller, Orlando Murden	4:43
9.	"Every Day I Have the Blues" (Unedited Version)	Memphis Slim	4:28
10.	"I Need Your Key (To Turn Me On)"	Louie Bellson	3:46
11.	"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"	Brown	4:41
12.	"There Was a Time" (2004 reissue only)	Brown, Bud Hobgood	3:04

Personnel

James Brown - vocal
Oliver Nelson - arranger and conductor
Ernie Watts - alto saxophone
Joe Romano - alto saxophone
Maceo Parker - tenor saxophone
Buddy Collette - tenor saxophone
Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone
Jim Mulidore - baritone saxophone
Al Aarons - trumpet
Chuck Findley - trumpet
John Audino - trumpet
Tom Porello - trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
Nick DiMaio - trombone
Kenny Shroyer - trombone
Bill Tole - trombone
Frank Vincent - piano
Bill Pitman - guitar
Louis Shelton - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Louis Bellson - drums, bandleader
Jack Arnold - percussion

Notes

Terrel, Tom (October 5, 2004). "James Brown's 'Soul on Top' Reissued". National Public Radio. Retrieved on April 27, 2007.

References

↑ Henderson, Alex. "James Brown: Soul on Top > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 21, 2011.

James Brown albums

Studio albums	Please Please Please Try Me! Think! The Amazing James Brown Good, Good, Twistin' James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. Prisoner of Love Showtime Grits & Soul Out of Sight Papa's Got a Brand New Bag James Brown Plays James Brown Today & Yesterday I Got You (I Feel Good) Mighty Instrumentals James Brown Plays New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) It's a Man's Man's Man's World James Brown Sings Christmas Songs Handful of Soul James Brown Sings Raw Soul James Brown Plays the Real Thing Cold Sweat I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me I Got the Feelin' James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things A Soulful Christmas Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud Gettin' Down to It The Popcorn It's a Mother Ain't It Funky Soul on Top It's a New Day – Let a Man Come In Hey America Super Bad Sho Is Funky Down Here Hot Pants There It Is Get on the Good Foot Black Caesar The Payback Hell Reality Sex Machine Today Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump Hot Get Up Offa that Thing Bodyheat Mutha's Nature Jam 1980's Take a Look at Those Cakes The Original Disco Man People Soul Syndrome Nonstop! Bring It On! Gravity I'm Real Love Over-Due Universal James I'm Back The Merry Christmas Album The Next Step

Live albums	Live at the Apollo Pure Dynamite! Live at the Royal The James Brown Show Live at the Garden Live at the Apollo, Volume II Sex Machine Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III Hot on the One Live in New York Live at Chastain Park Soul Session Live Love, Power, Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971 Live at the Apollo 1995 Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68

Notable compilation albums	Solid Gold: 30 Golden Hits In the Jungle Groove Motherlode Star Time 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! Roots of a Revolution Foundations of Funk – A Brand New Bag: 1964–1969 Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang Make It Funky – The Big Payback: 1971–1975 The Singles, Volume I: The Federal Years: 1956–1960 The Singles, Volume II: 1960–1963 The Singles, Volume III: 1964–1965 The Singles, Volume IV: 1966–1967

Band members	Bobby Byrd Lyn Collins Phelps "Catfish" Collins William "Bootsy" Collins Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis Maceo Parker Melvin Parker St. Clair Pinckney John "Jabo" Starks Clyde Stubblefield Fred Wesley

Associated acts	The Famous Flames The J.B.'s

Related articles	Discography Record labels owned by James Brown "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" James Brown: Man to Man Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 Future Shock Tomi Rae Hynie Get on Up

James Brown singles

Billboard charting singles (R&B and Pop)

1950s

1956	"Please, Please, Please"

1958	"Try Me"

1959	"I Want You So Bad"

1960s

1960	"I'll Go Crazy" "Think" "You've Got the Power" "This Old Heart" "The Bells"

1961	"Bewildered" "I Don't Mind" "Baby, You're Right" "Just You and Me, Darling" "Lost Someone"

1962	"Night Train" "Shout and Shimmy" "Mashed Potatoes U.S.A." "Three Hearts in a Tangle" "I've Got Money"

1963	"Like a Baby" "Every Beat of My Heart" "Prisoner of Love" "These Foolish Things" "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered"

1964	"Oh Baby Don't You Weep" "Please, Please, Please" "Caldonia" "The Things That I Used to Do" "Out of Sight" "Have Mercy Baby"

1965	"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" "Try Me" "I Got You (I Feel Good)"

1966	"Lost Someone" "I'll Go Crazy" "Ain't That a Groove" "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" "Money Won't Change You" "Don't Be a Drop-Out" "Sweet Little Baby Boy"

1967	"Bring It Up" "Kansas City" "Think" "Let Yourself Go" "Cold Sweat" "Get It Together" "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)" "There Was a Time"

1968	"You've Got to Change Your Mind" "I Got the Feelin'" "Licking Stick – Licking Stick" "America Is My Home" "I Guess I'll Have to Cry, Cry, Cry" "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" "Goodbye My Love" "Tit for Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)"

1969	"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" "Soul Pride" "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)" "The Popcorn" "Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)" "Lowdown Popcorn" "World" "Let a Man Come In and Do the Popcorn" "Ain't It Funky Now"

1970s

1970	"It's a New Day" "Funky Drummer" "Brother Rapp" "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" "Super Bad" "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here to Stay" "Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved"

1971	"Spinning Wheel" "Soul Power" "I Cried" "Escape-ism" "Hot Pants" "Make It Funky" "I'm a Greedy Man"

1972	"Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" "King Heroin" "There It Is" "Honky Tonk" "Get on the Good Foot" "I Got a Bag of My Own" "What My Baby Needs Now Is a Little More Lovin'"

1973	"I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want to Dance)" "Down and Out in New York City" "Think" "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" "Stoned to the Bone"

1974	"The Payback" "My Thang" "Papa Don't Take No Mess" "Funky President (People It's Bad)" "Coldblooded"

1975	"Reality" "Sex Machine" "Hustle!!! (Dead on It)" "Superbad, Superslick" "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)"

1976	"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" "Get Up Offa That Thing" "I Refuse to Lose" "Bodyheat"

1977	"Kiss in 77" "Give Me Some Skin" "If You Don't Give a Doggone About It"

1978	"Eyesight" "The Spank" "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes"

1979	"It's Too Funky in Here" "Star Generation"

1980s

1980	"Regrets" "Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses)"

1981	"Stay with Me"

1983	"The Night Time Is the Right Time (To Be With the One That You Love)"

1984	"Unity"

1985	"Living in America"

1986	"Gravity"

1987	"How Do You Stop"

1988	"I'm Real" "Static"

1989	"Gimme Your Love"

1990s

1991	"(So Tired of Standing Still We Got to) Move On"

1993	"Can't Get Any Harder"

UK-only
charting
singles

"Hey America" (1970)
"Bring It On...Bring It On" (1983)
"Froggy Mix" (1985)
"She's the One" (1988)
"The Payback Mix" (1988)
"I Got You (I Feel Good) [James Brown v. Dakeyne]" (1992)
"Funk on Ah Roll" (1999)

Notable
productions

"The Grunt" (1970)
"Gimme Some More" (1971)
"I Know You Got Soul" (1971)
"Pass the Peas" (1972)
"Think (About It)" (1972)
"Doing It to Death" (1973)
"Soul Power 74" (1973)

Other
songs

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