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Let Yourself Go (James Brown song)

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included versions of the song both with and without overdubs, along with an instrumental jam and a false start from the recording session.
283:, which was itself recorded during the same Latin Casino engagement. The song first appeared in unedited form without overdubs on the 1991 1862: 1814: 1350: 1103: 831: 555: 1297: 898: 562: 182: 1931: 993: 919: 608: 965: 1145: 429: 951: 1585: 328:", "There Was a Time" charted #3 R&B and #36 Pop. When a version of the full Apollo medley appeared on Brown's 1968 album 1357: 1237: 1693: 1567: 1290: 792: 330: 1938: 1603: 1191: 1018: 760: 422: 125: 721: 1967: 1657: 1560: 1375: 1343: 1177: 229: 1800: 1524: 852: 799: 739: 508: 1917: 1060: 668: 622: 462: 261:
nightclub during a ten-day performing engagement there. An edited version of this recording was released as a
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with "Let Yourself Go" and "I Feel All Right". Released in edited form as the
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I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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of "Let Yourself Go" during rehearsals on the road. Eventually a new song, "
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Leeds, Alan, and Harry Weinger (1991). "Star Time: Song by Song". In
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The Night Time Is the Right Time (To Be With the One That You Love)
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Brown and his musicians continued to experiment with the
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Brown recorded "Let Yourself Go" after hours in the
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Index

Single
James Brown
B-side
Good Rockin' Tonight
Latin Casino
Cherry Hill, NJ
Genre
Soul
Label
King
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
James Brown
Think
Cold Sweat - Part 1
"Let Yourself Go"
YouTube
James Brown
Latin Casino
single
charted
overdubbed
Live at the Garden
box set
Star Time
arrangement
There Was a Time
Apollo Theater
medley
B-side

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