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James Brown - I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me (1968) {Universal Music Japan Mini LP UICY-9290 rel 2003}
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© 1968, 2003 Polydor / Universal Music Japan | UICY-9290 | Cardboard Sleeve | 24bit remastering
Funk / R'n'B / Soul / Funky Jam

Limited to 5000 copies. Paper sleeve. I CAN'T STAND MYSELF (WHEN YOU TOUCH ME) was originally released in stereo as KING-1030 in early 1968, his second of eight releases that year. It was preceded by COLD SWEAT and followed by I GOT THE FEELIN'. I CAN'T STAND MYSELF was also released in The Netherlands (as GREATEST HITS Vol. 2!), England, Germany (as THIS IS JAMES BROWN) and Spain (as ¡ESTE ES JAMES BROWN!), all with different cover art. The US and Canadian version also featured pictures of various VOX instruments on the rear, an obvious product tie-in.

Marion Brown - Geechee Recollections & Sweet Earth Flying (2011) {Impulse! 2-on-1 Remasters Series rec 1973-1974}
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© 1973-74, 2011 Impulse! / Verve / Universal | 06025 2780943
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Electric Jazz / Modal Music / Saxophone

This single-disc volume brings together the first two chapters in saxophonist and composer Marion Brown's stellar Impulse! trilogy. Geechee Recollections (1973) and Sweet Earth Flying (1974) are, along with their final chapter, Vista (1975), arguably the finest moments in his catalog. Thematically, these two titles and Vista examine and celebrate the legacy of poet Jean Toomer and also revisit Brown's childhood in Atlanta and around the Georgia countryside. They are grounded in Southern folk themes and blues with just a kiss of funk. The musicians on Geechee Recollections are vocalist Bill Hasson (who actually does a long-form accompanied sung/spoken recitation of Toomer's poem "Karintha"), percussionist Jumma Santos, trumpeter (pre-Wadada) Leo Smith, drummer Steve McCall, and bassist James Jefferson as well as others on percussion.