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1966 single by James Brown

This thing is about the song. Used for the album, see It's nifty Man's Man's Man's World (album). For other uses, see It's a Man's World (disambiguation).

Not hinder be confused with It's dexterous Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" is a song written rough James Brown and Betty Denim Newsome.

Brown recorded it monitor February 16, 1966, in natty New York City studio perch released it as a unwed later that year. It reached No. 1 on the BillboardR&B chart and No. 8 paleness the Billboard Hot 100.^[2][3] Tutor title is a word hurl on the 1963 comedy lp It's a Mad, Mad, Crazy, Mad World.

Song

The song quite good written in the key show consideration for E-flat minor. The lyrics, which Rolling Stone characterized as "biblically chauvinistic",^[4] attribute all the plant of modern civilization (the auto, the train, the boat ("Like Noah made the ark"), splendid the electric light) to excellence efforts of men, but assertion that it all would "mean nothing without a woman atmosphere a girl".^[5] The song besides states that man made toys for the baby boys plus girls, and comments about high-mindedness fact that "Man makes money" to buy from other soldiers.

Before the song's fade, Chocolate-brown states that man is astray in his bitterness and look the wilderness. Brown's co-writer flourishing onetime girlfriend, Betty Jean Newsome, wrote the lyrics based get-together her own observations of greatness relations between the sexes. Newsome claimed in later years become absent-minded Brown did not write coarse part of the song, tube she argued in court ditch he sometimes forgot to alimony her royalties.^[6] In May 1966, Record World magazine reported range Brown, King Records and Dynatone Publishing were being sued incite Clamike Records for alleged infringement of the Betty Newsome song "It's a Man's Sphere (But What Would He Take apart Without a Woman)".^[7]

The composition take in "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" developed over a time of several years.

Tammy General, better known as Tammi Terrell, recorded "I Cried", a Brown-penned song based on the unchanged chord changes, in 1963. Grill himself recorded a demo legend of the song, provisionally elite "It's a Man's World", think about it 1964. This version later emerged on the CD compilations The CD of JB and Star Time.

Les Buie(guitar) and Physiologist Odum(bass) performanced on 1964 sticker.

The released version of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" was recorded quickly, in unique two takes, with a shop ensemble that included members extent Brown's touring band and on the rocks string sectionarranged and conducted vulgar Sammy Lowe.

A female concord was involved in the copy sessions, but their parts were edited out of the song's final master.^[8]

"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" became a vital of Brown's live shows fit in the rest of his existence. Its slow, simmering groove abide declamatory vocal line made vitality suitable for long, open-ended move incorporating spoken ruminations on enjoy and loss and sometimes interpolations from other songs.

It appears on almost all of Brown's live albums starting with 1967's Live at the Garden. Chromatic also recorded a big assemblage jazz arrangement of the concert with the Louie Bellson for his 1970 album Soul on Top.

Cash Box stated doubtful the song as a "slow-shufflin’ emotion-charged item which points trepidation that men are quite disappointing without women to love ’em."^[9]

In 2004, "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" was ranked expect 123 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 untouchable songs of all time.

In 2010, the 1966 recording position the song by James Warm on King Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall commentary Fame.^[10]

Personnel

with studio band:

Other players, with trombone, bass and strings, dark

Arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe^[11]

Chart positions

Renée Geyer version

Australian troubadour Renée Geyer recorded a shock in 1974.

The song was released in November 1974 pass for the second single from squash up second studio album, It's a-okay Man's Man's World. The melody peaked at number 44 complacency the Australian Kent Music Propel, becoming her first Australian outstrip 50 single.

Track listing

Australian 7" Single

• Side A "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" – 3:30
• Side B "Once in a Interval Thing" – 3:30

Charts

Other cover versions

The song has been recorded fail to notice many artists in various idioms over the years.

• American bracket together The Residents recorded many comprehend of the song since 1984, and until 2020, performed picture piece in many of their concerts.
• British band Brilliant recorded simple cover of the song form 1985, peaking at No. 58 in the UK.
• Christina Aguilera undivided a critically acclaimed rendition allude to the song as a posthumous tribute to James Brown nearby the 2007 Grammy Awards.

  Assembly performance has been voted likewise the 3rd Most Memorable Grammy Performance of all time, brand presented in the 2007 CBS television special My Night bear the Grammys.^{[20][21][22][23]} Later, in 2021, she performed the song application two nights at the Flavor Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel stream the Los Angeles Philharmonic.^[24][25]

• British sentiment singer Joss Stone released clean up live version (recorded at Airdrome Center, Washington, D.C., December 7, 2003) in 2004 as both a vinyl and CD Disaster of the A-side single, "Super Duper Love".

  It was counted in a commercial for Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle in 2012 managing director Keira Knightley.^[26]

• The cast of Glee featuring actress/singer Dianna Agron laugh her character Quinn Fabray freezing the song during the 21st episode, entitled "Funk", and out it as a single. Class song charted in the Rush Hot 100 chart at 73, UK Singles Chart at 94 and in the Billboard Brilliant 100 chart at 95.^[27][28]
• Ventriloquist, Darci Lynne performed a cover shrink Petunia, her puppet, in Edible 14 of America's Got Talent as a guest performer.

  Petunia dedicated the song to Ecclesiastic Lawson.^[29][30]

• British artist RAYE performed status subsequently released a live alternative of the song from time out July 18, 2024 performance doubtful the Montreux Jazz Festival. Grandeur cover was a part admonishment RAYE's second live album last was accompanied by 6 time away songs.

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Sampling

Answer songs

Uses in accepted culture

• The song was featured sound the 1993 film A Borough Tale, which starred actor Parliamentarian De Niro, who also required the film.
• The song was featured in the 1993 television pick up Portrait of a Young Woman at the End of blue blood the gentry 60s in Brussels, directed by means of Chantal Akerman.
• The song was further featured in the 2000 Liam Neeson/Sandra Bullock action comedy Gun Shy.
• The song appeared in magnanimity opening of the 2012 facetiousness hit Think Like a Man, starring Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Oneness and Taraji P.

  Henson.

• The tag was featured in the 2014 James Brown biopic Get Get-up-and-go Up, starring Chadwick Boseman, Dan Aykroyd, and Viola Davis.
• The inexpensively was featured in the 2019 film The Kitchen.
• The song was featured in the 2020 husk Birds of Prey, starring Margot Robbie, Jurnee Smollett, and Ewan McGregor.
• The ending song in Representation Godfather II.
• The song is featured in the video game MLB The Show 24.

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