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Being the master of hard funk wasn’t enough for James Brown; in the late ‘60s, he wanted very badly to become a Frank Sinatra–style crooner, too. He recorded Soul on Top with big-band big-timers Oliver Nelson and the Louie Bellson Orchestra in 1969 a few weeks before his public attempt to become a lounge lizard in Las Vegas. The album finds him attempting to take on hilariously inappropriate standards (Doris Day’s “It’s Magic”) and remaking a couple of his own major hits with leisure-suited arrangements. But Brown was at the peak of his power as a song stylist (he could turn anything into a James Brown song — by force, if necessary) and no matter how heavy the kitsch gets, he manages to rasp the Rat Pack repertoire with conviction.
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