Cold Sweat (album)

Cold Sweat
Studio album by James Brown
Released	August 1967 (1967-08)
Recorded	March 23 – September 15, 1964 (1964-03-23 – 1964-09-15)(tracks 6–11) [1] [2] January 25 – May 1967 (1967-05)(remainder of titles) [3]
Studio	Bell Sound Studios (New York City, New York) [1] [2] [3] Beltone Studios (New York City, New York) [3] RCA Studios (New York City, New York) [3] King Studios (Cincinnati, Ohio) [3]
Genre	Funk
Length	33:43
Label	King 1020
Producer	James Brown
James Brown chronology
James Brown Plays the Real Thing (1967) Cold Sweat (1967) I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me (1968)
Singles from Cold Sweat
"I Loves You Porgy" Released: May 1967 (1967-05) "Cold Sweat" Released: June 1967 (1967-06)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

Cold Sweat is the seventeenth studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in August 1967, by King Records. ^{[6] [4]}

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cold Sweat, Pt. 1"	James Brown, Alfred Ellis	2:24
2.	"Cold Sweat, Pt. 2"	James Brown, Alfred Ellis	4:46
3.	"Fever"	Eddie Cooley, John Davenport	3:04
4.	"Kansas City"	Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller	3:22
5.	"Stagger Lee"	Harold Logan, Lloyd Price	2:43
6.	"Good Rockin' Tonight"	Roy Brown	2:25
Total length:			19:20

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Mona Lisa"	Jay Livingston, Raymond Evans	1:54
8.	"I Want to Be Around" (featuring New York Studio Orchestra & Chorus)	Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt	2:20
9.	"Nature Boy"	Eden Ahbez	2:38
10.	"Come Rain or Come Shine"	Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen	2:47
11.	"I Loves You Porgy"	George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward	2:30
12.	"Back Stabbin'"	James Brown, Gene Redd	2:43
Total length:			15:31

Tracks 6–11 were previously released on 1964's Out of Sight .

Personnel

Track 1–5 & 12 (recorded in 1967)

• James Brown – vocals
• Waymon Reed, Joe Dupars, Dud Bascomb, Joe Newman – trumpet
• Richard Harris, Jimmy Cleveland, Garnett Brown – trombone
• Levi Rasbury – valve trombone
• Pee Wee Ellis – alto saxophone
• Maceo Parker, Eldee Williams, Pee Wee Ellis – tenor saxophone
• St. Clair Pinckney – baritone saxophone
• Ernie Hayes – piano
• Jimmy Nolen, Alfonzo Kellum, Wallace Richardson, Carl Lynch – guitar
• Bernard Odum, Al Lucas – bass
• Clyde Stubblefield, Bernard Purdie – drums

Track 6–11 (recorded in 1964)

• James Brown – lead vocals
• Maeretha Stewart, others unidentified – background vocals
• probably: Ernie Royal, Dud Bascomb, Johnny Grimes – trumpet
• Richard Harris – trombone
• George Dorsey – alto saxophone
• St. Clair Pinckney, Seldon Powell, Sam Taylor or Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone
• Haywood Henry – baritone saxophone
• Ernie Hayes – piano, organ
• unidentified – strings
• Billy Butler, Wallace Richardson – guitars
• Al Lucas – bass
• Panama Francis – drums

References

1. Leeds, Alan; Weinger, Harry (July 23, 1996). Out of Sight (1996 ed.).
2. Leeds, Alan (February 2007). The Singles, Volume 3: 1964–1965 (published June 8, 2007). pp. 21–22.
3. Leeds, Alan (August 2007). The Singles, Volume 4: 1966–1967 (published October 19, 2007). pp. 14, 16, 19 & 22–23.
4. Ruhlmann, William. "Cold Sweat – James Brown". AllMusic . Retrieved July 11, 2015.
5. Cross, Charles R. (2004). "James Brown". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp.  109. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
6. "iTunes – Music – Cold Sweat by James Brown & His Famous Flames". iTunes . Retrieved July 11, 2015.