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James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Actors: Brian Grazer (producer), Viola Davis (actress), Mick Jagger (producer), James DuMont (actor), Billy Slaughter (actor), Octavia Spencer (actress), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Clyde Jones (actor), Keith Robinson (actor), Lennie James (actor), Fred Melamed (actor), Jill Scott (actress), Kathryn C. Galberth (miscellaneous crew), Sharen Davis (costume designer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,Actors: Barack Obama (actor), Sam Brittan (writer), Sarah Palin (actress), Ann Coulter (actress), Steve Stockman (actor), James Patrick Brown (director), James Patrick Brown (producer), James Patrick Brown (writer), James Patrick Brown (actor), Paul Ryan (actor), Kristin West (actress), Walter Jones (actor), Mike Conaway (actor), Paul Broun (actor), Louie Gohmert (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Tonci Pivac (actor), Philip Moran (producer), Samuel Thomas (actor), Jordan Ancel (actor), James Crompton (actor), Graeme Cash (miscellaneous crew), Scott Harding (actor), Steve Farac Ciprian (actor), Robyn Worthington (actress), Lutz Halbhubner (actor), Lisa Brickell (actress), Chantal Rayner-Burt (writer), Jonathon Rayner-Burt (director), Virginia Frankovich (actor), Nichola Gilchrist (actress),
Plot: Journey of a Story follows the life of William Brown, a fictional New Zealand serviceman both physically and emotionally damaged by his tour of duty in Europe and time as a Prisoner of War during World War II. Returning home, William finds a very different world to the one he left behind. Forced to leave the home he planned to enjoy with his wife Lily and young son James, William struggles to cope until an observant War Pension medical officer convinces William to take up writing. Fueled with a new passion for life, William finally finds a road to success, in ways he could not possibly imagine. The story is told to from the elderly William's point of view, as he relays his story to a young theatre director attempting to bring William's life to the stage.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Timothy Paul Taylor (actor), Charles Schefer (actor), Charles Schefer (writer), Charles Schefer (producer), Charles Schefer (editor), Charles Schefer (director), Troy Lee Sargent (actor), Troy Lee Sargent (producer), Tony DeVries (actor), Tandy Gaines (actor), Sadia Brimm (actress), Shelly Long (actress), Shelly Long (actress), Jake Fuller (actor), Jesse Fuller (actor),
Plot: The Background: $2000, a home computer, one camera, and one microphone... What resulted was a collaborative effort between Evansville, Indiana's budding film community and some of the areas best musical artists. Combining story-telling and music videos, People Music has something for everyone. The Story: Local rappers, C4 and SmoothE take a musical journey through the history and future of their regions musical landscape. Along the way, they interact with real life musicians who continue the story through music video and storytelling.
Genres: Music,Actors: Charles Schefer (director), Charles Schefer (editor), Jake Fuller (actor), James Brown (actor), Jason McKinney (actor), Jesse Fuller (actor), Jimmy DeTalente (actor),
Plot: "From the Otherside of Nowhere to Here..." follows the band Lost Anthem as they prepare to release their second album, Moments In and Out of Time. Bandmates talk about their history, trials, tribulations, and future. This documentary was added to a second disc and released with the album nationwide.
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: John Hart (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Michael Ansara (actor), Dick Clark (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Busby Berkeley (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), James Brown (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), George Jessel (actor),
Plot: An athlete, a campus militant, a black model, and an American Indian are picked by a computer (shaped like a woman) to form a rock group called the Phynx and go on tour in Albania where American show biz people have been kidnapped by Communists. Some of the stars that the phony band rescues: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan (the most famous movie Tarzan and Jane), Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall (the Bowery Boys), Ed Sullivan, James Brown, Colonel Sanders, Guy Lombardo, Andy Devine, Ruby Keeler, Edgar Bergen, Butterfly McQueen, Jay Silverheels (Tonto), Rudy Vallee, Xavier Cugat, Trini Lopez, Dick Clark, Richard Pryor, Harold "Oddjob" Sakata, George Jessel, and Rhona Barrett. Warner Bros. Studios thought it was so bad that they decided at the last minute not to release it!
Keywords: albania, castle, communist, computer, copenhagen-denmark, espionage, kidnapping, london-england, orgy, recordingActors: William Demarest (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Arturo de Córdova (actor), Howard Da Silva (actor), Charles Cane (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Davison Clark (actor), James Brown (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), William Bendix (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Lester Dorr (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Vola Vale (actress), Robert Z. Leonard (director), Albert MacQuarrie (actor), Charles Hill Mailes (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Malcolm Blevins (actor), Walter Belasco (actor), Charles Gunn (actor), Grace Carlyle (actress), Rufus Steele (director), Maud Grange (writer), Rufus Steele (writer), Rodney Ronous (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Carl Alstrup (actor), Christian Schrøder (actor), Charles Willumsen (actor), Agnes Andersen (actress), Maja Bjerre-Lind (actress), Betzy Kofoed (actress), August Blom (director), Johannes Ring (actor), Ingeborg Jensen (actress), Johanne Krum-Hunderup (actress), Emilie Otterdahl (actress), Vera Esbøll (actress), William Soelberg (writer), Emilian Erichsen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Francis X. Bushman (actor), Theodore Wharton (producer), Richard Foster Baker (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,LICKIN' STICK
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