On December 17, 2024, Alfa Anderson died aged 78. She was singer and educator, founding member (together with her husband Eruliel Barfield) of the band “Voices of Shalom”, but was best known as the lead singer of the band Chic. She recorded with many famous musicians, among them with Luther Vandross, Lou Rawls, The B-52’s, Jaheim, Roberta Flack, The Roches, Marvin Sease, Odyssey, Doc Powell, Martha Wash, Debbie Gibson, Jennifer Holliday, Ashford and Simpson, Nat Adderley, Roy Buchanan and Dionne Warwick. In 2014, Anderson received the “Global Entertainment Media Arts (G.E.M.A.) Foundation’s Golden Mic Award”, and Citation from the City of Philadelphia for her contributions to music “Le Freak” (song by Chis) featuring Anderson on the lead vocals, was inducted into the 2015 “Grammy Hall of Fame”. In 2018, the song was added to the “National Recording Registry” by the “Library of Congress”. In 2018, Mayor Hardie Davis Jr. of Augusta, Georgia gave Anderson the Keys to the City and declared May 5 as “Alfa Anderson Day”.
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James Brown: Sex Machine
In September 1970, “King” label released “Sex Machine”, double album by James Brown. The first LP consists of tracks recorded in studio, with added reverberation and overdubbed applause. The second LP consists of tracks (except one), recorded live on concert in Augusta, Georgia, again with added reverb and overdubbed applause. It was recorded in October 1969 and July 1970 in Cincinnati; June 1969 in Miami; October 1969, at “Bell Auditorium” in Augusta, Georgia, and was produced by James Brown. In 1989, “Spin” magazine ranked the album at number 1 on its list of the “25 Greatest Albums of All Time”.
Personnel:
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Medley
- James Brown– vocals, piano
- Clayton “Chicken” Gunnels – trumpet
- Darryl “Hassan” Jamison – trumpet
- Robert “Chopper” McCollough – tenor sax
- Bobby Byrd– organ, vocals
- Phelps “Catfish” Collins– guitar
- William “Bootsy” Collins– bass
- John “Jabo” Starks– drums
- Clyde Stubblefield– drums
- Johnny Griggs – congas
Bell Auditorium, Augusta, GA
- James Brown– vocals, organ
- Richard “Kush” Griffith – trumpet
- Joseph Davis – trumpet
- Fred Wesley– trombone
- Maceo Parker– tenor sax, organ, emcee
- Eldee Williams – tenor sax
- Clair Pinckney– tenor and baritone sax
- Jimmy Nolen– guitar
- Alphonso “Country” Kellum – guitar
- Sweet Charles Sherrell– bass
- Clyde Stubblefield– drums
- John “Jabo” Starks– drums
- Melvin Parker – drums
Track listing:
- Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine – James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff
- Brother Rapp (Part I & Part II)– James Brown
- Medley:
- Bewildered – Teddy Powell, Leonard Whitcup
- I Got The Feelin’ – James Brown
- Give It Up or Turnit a Loose – Charles Bobbit
- I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself) – James Brown
- Licking Stick – Licking Stick – James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Pee Wee Ellis
- Lowdown Popcorn – James Brown
- Spinning Wheel – David Clayton-Thomas
- If I Ruled the World – Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel
- There Was a Time – James Brown, Hobgood
- It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World – James Brown, Betty Jean Newsome
- Please, Please, Please – James Brown, Johnny Terry
- I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)- James Brown
- Mother Popcorn – James Brown, Pee Wee Ellis
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