Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things

Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things
Studio album by James Brown
Released	November 1968 (1968-11)
Recorded	June 27, 1968 (1968-06-27)(side one) [1] August 17, 1967 – October 18, 1968 (1967-08-17 – 1968-10-18)(side two) [2]
Studio	Bell Sound Studios (New York City, New York) (side one) [1] King Studios (Cincinnati, Ohio) (side two) [2]
Genre	Funk
Length	37:36
Label	King
Producer	James Brown
James Brown chronology
James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul (1968) Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things (1968) A Soulful Christmas (1968)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things is the 21st studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in November 1968,^{[ citation needed ]} by King Records.

Early in his career, Brown had opened shows for Little Willie John, ^[1] a prominent R&B singer from the mid-1950s to the 1960s perhaps most well-known for the song "Fever". Brown recorded Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things a little more than a half-year after John's death. Side One of the album consists of cover versions of Little Willie John songs. Side Two is all instrumentals. ^{[3] [5]}

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Talk to Me, Talk to Me"	Joe Seneca	3:28
2.	"Suffering With the Blues"	Lloyd Pemberton, Teddy Conyers	3:06
3.	"Cottage for Sale" (featuring Members of The Dapps & New York Studio Orchestra)	Larry Conley, Willard Robison	3:29
4.	"Bill Bailey"	Hughie Cannon	2:44
5.	"Home at Last"	Rudy Toombs	4:49
6.	"Heart Break (It's Hurtin' Me)"	Jon Thomas, Carlee Hoyle	3:05
7.	"What Kind of Man"	James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Eddie Setser, Troy Seals	2:06
8.	"A Note Or Two, Pt. I"	James Brown, Bud Hobgood	3:08
9.	"I'll Lose My Mind"	James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Bobby Byrd	3:12
10.	"Fat Eddie"	James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Ron Lenhoff	2:37
11.	"You Gave My Heart a Song to Sing"	James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Bobby Byrd	2:48
12.	"A Note Or Two, Pt. II"	James Brown, Bud Hobgood	3:01

Personnel (side one)

• James Brown – lead vocals
• Johnny Grimes – trumpet
• Waymon Reed – trumpet
• Les Asch – tenor saxophone
• David Parkinson – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis – organ
• Wallace Richardson – guitar
• Al Lucas – bass
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie – drums

References

1. White, Cliff; Weinger, Harry (1990). Messing With The Blues. Polydor. pp. 7 & 12.
2. Leeds, Alan (October 2007). The Singles, Volume 5: 1967–1969 (published February 29, 2008). pp. 13–22.
3. Mark Deming. "Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things - James Brown". AllMusic. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
4. 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.
5. "iTunes - Music - Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things by James Brown". iTunes. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 13, 2015.