If You Don't Give a Doggone About It

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"If You Don't Give a Dogone About It"
Single by James Brown and The New J.B.'s
from the album Mutha's Nature
A-side "People Who Criticize"
Released1977 (1977)
Genre Funk, disco
Length3:07
Label Polydor
14438
Songwriter(s)
  • James Brown
  • Deanna Brown
Producer(s) James Brown
James Brown chartingsingles chronology
"Give Me Some Skin"
(1977)
"If You Don't Give a Dogone About It"
(1977)
"Eyesight"
(1978)
Audio video
"If You Don't Give A Dogone About It" on YouTube

"If You Don't Give a Doggone about it" (spelled "Dogone" in its original release) is a song written and performed by James Brown. Issued as the B-side of Brown's 1977 single "People Who Criticize", it charted #45 R&B. [1] It also appeared on the album Mutha's Nature.

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