Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown | The Midnight Special

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  • James Brown performed on The Midnight Special August 6, 1976
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  • @DidYouReadEULA
    @DidYouReadEULA 11 місяців тому +77

    How can they just sit there? Got to get up for the Godfather and his stage full of Maestros! What a show!!!!!

    • @Dwight2744
      @Dwight2744 11 місяців тому +16

      People have commented in other Midnight Special videos that the audience was generally instructed to sit still and not make any noise for some reason. It really stands out though.

    • @jdwelborn
      @jdwelborn 11 місяців тому +8

      check out "Sex Machine - James Brown | The Midnight Special" James Brown MAKES everyone "get on up!"

    • @jonhowe2960
      @jonhowe2960 11 місяців тому +1

      Get Up Offa That Thing is rather unambiguous

    • @SOALNightLive
      @SOALNightLive 10 місяців тому +6

      He did suggest they 'get up offa that thing".

    • @moorlock2003
      @moorlock2003 10 місяців тому +7

      The sterile environment of a TV studio does not compare with a concert hall.

  • @statmagic
    @statmagic Місяць тому +3

    That guitar is so funky you can't even look at it.

  • @nancywhitten2585
    @nancywhitten2585 13 днів тому +1

    The good old days!

  • @BIZARBIES
    @BIZARBIES 11 місяців тому +31

    You can see where Prince got his microphone moves from!

    • @gregoryduncan3067
      @gregoryduncan3067 11 місяців тому +12

      Michael Jackson picked up a thing or two from him as well.

    • @StephanieJeanne
      @StephanieJeanne 11 місяців тому +7

      Oh yes! James was the GOAT!

    • @bOmBAsTiK
      @bOmBAsTiK 11 місяців тому +4

      @@gregoryduncan3067 As did Mick Jagger, John Mellencamp, Paul Young, Trent D'Arby, MC Hammer et al...

    • @benscr
      @benscr Місяць тому +1

      @@gregoryduncan3067True, and Michael Jackson always openly praised James Brown as a major influence on him.

  • @BELCAN57
    @BELCAN57 7 місяців тому +5

    THE Hardest Working Man In Show Business

  • @pennymcneela7095
    @pennymcneela7095 11 місяців тому +9

    James Brown Superstar....

  • @Nivasi
    @Nivasi 11 місяців тому +17

    The Midnight Special was the absolute BEST show..

  • @bluesrocker6l6gc8
    @bluesrocker6l6gc8 11 місяців тому +10

    And a rhythm section second to none!!

  • @rjs2005
    @rjs2005 10 місяців тому +11

    It just doesn't get any funkier- or better than James Brown. What a fantastic performance by one of our greatest icons. The Midnight Special delivers again!

  • @gregoryduncan3067
    @gregoryduncan3067 11 місяців тому +12

    I feel good!

  • @mr.roaddogwade7107
    @mr.roaddogwade7107 11 місяців тому +9

    Quickest feet in the land. James in his prime. 🕺🏻🕺🏻👏🏼👏🏼Midnight Special should be in the Smithsonian.

  • @hollygolightly7475
    @hollygolightly7475 4 місяці тому +1

    Get up offa that thang, i danced my thang off to this and still do!! How can you not ! Funkiest song on earth !! Get up!!

  • @StephanieJeanne
    @StephanieJeanne 11 місяців тому +11

    James Brown was a fireball!!🔥🔥 I don't see how those people stayed in their seats!Great song to start the week!

    • @SnarlaRae
      @SnarlaRae 11 місяців тому +3

      Im thinking it was cuz of cameta placement, set up and space. There is no way I coulda just sat there.

    • @StephanieJeanne
      @StephanieJeanne 11 місяців тому +3

      @@SnarlaRae yeah! Me either! 🙌✌️

    • @gregoryduncan3067
      @gregoryduncan3067 11 місяців тому +2

      @@StephanieJeanne They could've got up off their things but there didn't seem to be much room for them to get down. Looks crowded in there.

    • @StephanieJeanne
      @StephanieJeanne 11 місяців тому +1

      @@gregoryduncan3067 😆 That's true, but I woulda got on up on that stage if necessary, or stepped on some people! LOL

    • @gregoryduncan3067
      @gregoryduncan3067 11 місяців тому +1

      @@StephanieJeanne Then Burt would've kicked you out but you wouldn't have cared, right?

  • @dusty52267
    @dusty52267 11 місяців тому +15

    The Hardest Working Man in Show Business does it again! These videos are the best. Thanks Midnight Special.

  • @brendamelvoin2043
    @brendamelvoin2043 11 місяців тому +5

    Can't realize that it was 47 years ago! Quality is so pristine ! Thanks 4 sharing !
    James Brown, by doing splits, should have had hips pain just...as Prince ... Please post his performance...😊

    • @bOmBAsTiK
      @bOmBAsTiK 11 місяців тому +4

      He wasn't wearing women's heels while he was doing them though

  • @resetsurvivor
    @resetsurvivor 11 місяців тому +6

    when bro catches the mic with his shoulder 😂

    • @shawnhallmon9245
      @shawnhallmon9245 2 місяці тому +1

      Yo I know man I kept rewatching that part

  • @angelomelville9084
    @angelomelville9084 11 місяців тому +5

    IM WITNESSING PRINCE SENIOR HERE!

  • @MrCarltonjsmith
    @MrCarltonjsmith 6 місяців тому +5

    Hello Midnight Special, I saw this episode when it first aired. At the end of this broadcast as the credits were rolling James Brown performed a song entitled, "Everybody Wanna get Funky one More Time" it is a rare classic and the ONLY time he ever performed it on TV. Is it possible that you could air this? This request may fall on deaf ears or never be seen, but I had to try. I'm putting it out there in the universe. I was 16 when I last saw this and it would mean so much.

    • @kepler240
      @kepler240 5 місяців тому

      Yes. Show it.

    • @uncleboyd5023
      @uncleboyd5023 5 місяців тому +1

      It will eventually be shown but probably not until years from now. They are releasing all the full episodes but by timeline order.

    • @DrBelser12
      @DrBelser12 22 дні тому

      Wow would love to see that!!

  • @that70sgirl90
    @that70sgirl90 11 місяців тому +5

    Great singer, but just an all-around great performer!!
    Awesome back ground dancers! 💃💃
    Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖

  • @catpocalypsenow8090
    @catpocalypsenow8090 11 місяців тому +6

    I got up offa that thing.

  • @drumscholar42
    @drumscholar42 10 місяців тому +2

    The BAND!!!!!!!!!

    • @kepler240
      @kepler240 5 місяців тому

      The BANANA!!!!!!!!

  • @marel5932
    @marel5932 10 місяців тому +2

    Godfather of soul!

  • @buddyburtonphotography
    @buddyburtonphotography 11 місяців тому +2

    The song It Takes Two has some James Brown yell’s playing in the beat.

  • @MrAnimal1971
    @MrAnimal1971 9 місяців тому +1

    The legend! Still love james browwn!!!

  • @nataliekriegler9329
    @nataliekriegler9329 9 місяців тому

    Love him! 💜💕💔❤💖...have since I was 12 or 13

  • @not_name7421
    @not_name7421 9 місяців тому +3

    Wrong audience for this genius and innovator! I'm a 70+ white guy and both feet are taping and my head is shaking!
    (maybe it's the Parkinson's though too)

  • @shawnhallmon9245
    @shawnhallmon9245 2 місяці тому

    I used to be able to copy James Brown dance during karaoke sessions at my friends house now because of my knee being messed up I can hardly dance at all😔...anyway I can't stop laughing at the guy in the yellow dancing next to the lady in the background 😂😂😂😂

  • @SurlyriderBilly
    @SurlyriderBilly 11 місяців тому +3

    I’d be mad, working that hard for that audience, damn

  • @zizzle1835
    @zizzle1835 11 місяців тому +2

    🌞Gratitude 🌞

  • @kepler240
    @kepler240 5 місяців тому +2

    The dancing banana is awesome.

  • @ralphfurley123
    @ralphfurley123 9 місяців тому

    The Godfather performing one of my favorites! I love it! ☮️🖖🏽

  • @yahausagi0720
    @yahausagi0720 11 місяців тому +2

    最高

  • @Superpippo7
    @Superpippo7 3 місяці тому

    👑👑👑

  • @dougjarvie12
    @dougjarvie12 11 місяців тому +2

    Thank you very much for this video. Please upload Muddy Waters appearance on the Midnight Special.

  • @mariaeugeniajirontapia4212
    @mariaeugeniajirontapia4212 10 місяців тому +1

    👍❤

  • @joabei11
    @joabei11 10 місяців тому

    GOOD GOD!

  • @christianfourcade3785
    @christianfourcade3785 9 місяців тому

    Le roi de la funk 💥👏👐

  • @kepler240
    @kepler240 5 місяців тому +1

    Good God

  • @danielavaca4414
    @danielavaca4414 11 місяців тому

    The Dance Machine

  • @zellhudson1830
    @zellhudson1830 9 місяців тому

    THE G.O.A.T

  • @alhi6240
    @alhi6240 10 місяців тому +1

    Aren't any entertainers today (2023) that can sing and dance as well as the Godfather. Kudos!

  • @jnewsom1979
    @jnewsom1979 9 місяців тому

    JB ... I bow down

  • @trishafaulk2067
    @trishafaulk2067 10 місяців тому

    I noticed it was like that for a lot of dance songs, no one would stand and dance. How can people not dance to great songs unless told to stay in their seats. Who knows

  • @CharlesBrown-dr4nf
    @CharlesBrown-dr4nf 9 місяців тому

    From understanding, they were told to sit there and don't make a scthe same comment comment

  • @njhampster
    @njhampster 11 місяців тому +2

    They must have told the audience not to stand up!

  • @Merylstreep1949
    @Merylstreep1949 10 місяців тому

    I have a sudden urge to get up off of things...not sure why 😂

  • @_JamesBrown
    @_JamesBrown 10 місяців тому +1

    9 inches

  • @hungfao
    @hungfao 10 місяців тому +3

    So, here's James with his always ready and tight band doling out his brand hard driving funk and.....you can see some of the kids in audience wanting to get up offa that thing but apparently aren't allowed to. Very weird to watch a dead audience when James is working. It seems just wrong. SMH.
    Another great performance, James (RIP)

  • @dethcreeper69
    @dethcreeper69 11 місяців тому +1

    Just a shame it wasn't a completely live recording

    • @Tensen01
      @Tensen01 11 місяців тому +2

      What part of it wasn't live?

    • @paulhopkins8148
      @paulhopkins8148 11 місяців тому +5

      @@Tensen01 The audience.

  • @timb350
    @timb350 11 місяців тому +2

    How...is it humanly possible...for a single person in the audience...to be sitting on their asses!?!?!?!!?? The whole room should be going effing NUTS! And they're all just sittin there like it's Sesame Street! W...T....F...????

  • @alphabeets
    @alphabeets 8 місяців тому

    What thing? ❤

  • @bOmBAsTiK
    @bOmBAsTiK 11 місяців тому +1

    Everybody's complaining about the audience but remember, as great as this performance is it was 1976, 10-15 years after James Brown's prime, it was a whole new vibe by then and that's a young crowd

    • @mchavez219
      @mchavez219 9 місяців тому +2

      It doesn't matter if he was ten or fifteen years past his prime in this performance because he was Great Here!! He more than Still had it!! And that song is Super Funky, Groovy, and I can't help but get up and dance, and I'm 63 years old Already!! Being that the crowd is Young should be All The More that They Should be Up and Dancing!! What a Dead Crowd!! And All The People Complaining about This Dead Crowd, Have a Right To!!👍👍

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom 3 місяці тому

      James Brown's prime as a performer was in 74-77, his physicality, vocals and dance ability had all surpassed what he was in the 60s, just because he wasn't as popular by then doesn't change that. This has become very clear having watched and listened to a lot of James Brown live. It might not be my favourite era but it was objectively his best. Also 15 years before 1976 was 1961, that was before any live performance he'd done had been recorded.

    • @bOmBAsTiK
      @bOmBAsTiK 3 місяці тому

      @@VinVonVoom Nah, I would say '74 cos that's when Three The Hard Way came out, although his actual "acting" probably peaked in the '60s when he was fresh out of football. I always thought Fred Williamson was better frankly, but if you say it's funky, to each his own player...✌🏽✊🏽

  • @rafsoc1613
    @rafsoc1613 10 місяців тому +1

    Can anybody help me? What is he saying at 2:06?

    • @kepler240
      @kepler240 5 місяців тому

      Gimmie those funky horns

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom 3 місяці тому

      Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme AOW!

  • @vallaindigital
    @vallaindigital 11 місяців тому +2

    The audience is not listening 😁

  • @tomaburque
    @tomaburque 11 місяців тому +12

    That man had more talent in his left leg than any ten of these Hip Hop "artists". He literally invented funk music while rappers hire some guy with a laptop to make their beats they mumble-rap over.

    • @superhillsider
      @superhillsider 11 місяців тому +7

      You got to give credit to band leaders/music interpreters Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis. I saw Pee Wee play Cold Sweat on a piano when he described how he came up with it, was spine-tingling to hear and see it.

    • @BIZARBIES
      @BIZARBIES 11 місяців тому +7

      ​@superhillsider Fred is awesome! He is one of the funkiest humans that has ever lived. His work with Brown and Parliament Funkadelic are legendary. Everyone should know who Fred Wesley is!

    • @josephellis6697
      @josephellis6697 10 місяців тому +2

      ⁠@@superhillsideryeah they are great in which they interpreted the ideas that Brown was telling them to a cool music, but here we are giving credit to James because of his great talent / incredible vocals

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom 3 місяці тому

      You can respect your favourite artists without having to put others down. Mumble rap is incredibly irrelevant to this video and there was absolutely no reason to bring it up.

  • @hittheblockrecords
    @hittheblockrecords Місяць тому

    Here from Kendrick

  • @blablablabla4236
    @blablablabla4236 Місяць тому

    Crowd was not prepared. They couldn’t handle the funk. Essentially they were paralyzed in shock. Poor white folks…

  • @timb350
    @timb350 11 місяців тому +1

    To quote Jim Carrey...."...SMOKIN!!!!..."