James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loos

This song peaked in 3/69. Both my stock 45 and both sides of my promo
45 feature mono mixes. David, it did first appear on an album of his 11
months later, in 2/1970: the "Ain't It Funky" LP. This is noted to be an
album full of instrumentals. Five months later, in 7/70, the song in
question appears again, on his "It's A New Day So Let A Man Come In"
album.

I don't own either of these LPs. Pat does currently include specific db
notations for both a 1970 re-recording and a "stereo LP version". Closer
analysis will need to be done, to determine which db versions might
match up with which 1970 LP versions, if any.

I think you've brought us down this road a time or two before, David, as
to when exactly "the statute of limitations" ends, between when a current
45 release becomes a hit, and how soon an album must follow to qualify
as its "parent LP". Assuming for argument's sake, that the "stereo LP
version" is from that 7/70 LP, I agree that a gap of a year and 4 months is
an unusually long one, for our normal purposes. But if the version found
there is simply the stereo debut for a basically similar-sounding take,
likely recorded at the time of the hit and only now being issued, I suppose
it's more in the spirit of "original version" vs "later re-recording," although
I have no strong feeling either way.

It is well known that Brown never concerned himself much with albums,
and this case could be as simple as JB deciding in mid-1970 that his LP
was a song short, so now was the time to finally offer up a stereo mix of
his early 1969 hit, which had been "sitting in the can" for the better part
of a year and a half.....

Edited by jimct