The O'Jays were very big in 1973. In 1973, their song "Love Train" reached Number One on the main U.S. singles chart, and in 1974, "For the Love of Money" made it all the way to Number Three. Plus they had even more success on the U.S. R&B singles chart. So it made sense they would be hosts for an episode of this show.
James Brown was also doing very well. While he didn't have any really big hits, he had a seemingly continual stream of Top Forty hits. Three of the songs he performed here, "The Payback," "Papa Don't Take No Mess," and "My Thang," were Top Forty hits in 1974 (again, I'm referring to the main singles chart, not the R&B chart, where he did even better). Unfortunately, his winning streak would soon come to an end for a long time. After 1974, he wouldn't have another Top Forty hit until 1985.
When I made a poll about potential Midnight Special albums, I put James Brown on there. I thought I would have enough material for an album by him, but unfortunately it turns out there's only enough for this shared album with the O'Jays. At least for now, that is. In 1976, he would actually host the show twice. So I'll hopefully have an album for that once it gets posted on YouTube.
The O'Jays were on the show twice before this, both in 1973. For one of them, they did a duet version of "Love Train" with Lou Rawls. I think I'll stick that on a different album eventually. For another, the May 11, 1973 episode, the did a version of "Love Train" on their own. That was lucky for me, because the version here was mostly cut off, due to the TV broadcast ending. So I was able to take the last two plus minutes of that 1973 version to finish off the version here. That's what that song has "[Edit]" in its title.
The only song that's from a different episode is "Get on the Good Foot." James Brown returned to the show just one month later, playing two songs for the October 18, 1974 episode: "Papa Don't Take No Mess" and "Get on the Good Foot." I didn't include that version of "Papa Don't Take No Mess" since he did a version of it here already. But I did include the rare "Get on the Good Foot" (especially since it's possibly my favorite James Brown song).
I was a bit surprised that the O'Jays and James Brown didn't perform a song together. They would have made a good match. Oh well.
The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. As usual for this show, I did a lot of editing, adding in audience applause to smooth the transitions between songs.
This album is 49 minutes long.
01 Put Your Hands Together Intro (O'Jays)
02 Put Your Hands Together (O'Jays)
03 People Keep Tellin' Me - Time to Get Down (O'Jays)
04 This Air I Breathe - 992 Arguments (O'Jays)
05 Backstabbers - People Keep Tellin' Me (O'Jays)
06 The Payback (James Brown)
07 Cold Sweat (James Brown)
08 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (James Brown)
09 For the Love of Money (O'Jays)
10 Hell (James Brown)
11 Papa Don't Take No Mess (James Brown)
12 Sunshine (O'Jays)
13 My Thang (James Brown)
14 Get on the Good Foot (James Brown)
15 Love Train [Edit] (O'Jays)
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The cover photo is from this exact concert.
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