Roots of a Revolution é a primeira de diversas coletâneas lançadas pela Polydor Records cobrindo vários períodos da carreira de James Brown.[1] Este álbum duplo cobre o período de 1956 até 1963, mas omite alguns dos grandes sucessos de Brown daquele período, e que podem ser achados no box set Star Time. A maioria das canções foi gravada por Brown com seu grupo vocal, os The Famous Flames.
Lista de faixas
Todas as faixas compostas por James Brown; exceto onde indicado
- Disco 1
- "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On" (Nafloyd Scott, Nashpendle Knox)
- "No, No, No, No"
- "Hold My Baby's Hand" (Bobby Byrd, James Brown, Nafloyd Scott, William Lee Diamond Smith)
- "Chonnie-On-Chon" (Bobby Byrd, James Brown, Nafloyd Scott, William Lee Diamond Smith)
- "Just Won't Do Right"
- "Let's Make It"
- "Fine Old Foxy Self"
- "Why Does Everything Happen to Me"
- "Begging, Begging" (Jessy D. Dixon, Rudolph Toombs)
- "That Dood It" (Rose Marie McCoy, Rudolph Toombs)
- "There Must Be a Reason"
- "I Want You So Bad"
- "Don't Let It Happen to Me"
- "Bewildered" (Leonard Whitcup, Teddy Powell)
- "Doodle Bug" (Instrumental) (James Brown, J.C. Davis)
- "This Old Heart"
- Studio Dialogue
- "I'll Never Let You Go"
- Studio Dialogue
- "You've Got The Power" (dueto com Bea Ford) (James Brown, Johnny Terry)
- "Baby, You're Right" (James Brown, Joe Tex)
- "I Don't Mind"
- Disco 2
- "Come Over Here"
- "And I Do Just What I Want"
- "Just You and Me, Darling"
- "So Long"
- "Tell Me What You're Gonna Do"
- "Hold It" (Billy Butler, Clifford Scott)
- "Dancin' Little Thing" (Hank Ballard)
- "You Don't Have to Go"
- "Lost Someone" (Baby Lloyd Stallworth, Bobby Byrd, James Brown)
- "Shout and Shimmy"
- "I Found You"
- "I Don't Care"
- "I've Got Money"
- "Mashed Potatoes U.S.A."
- "Signed, Sealed and Delivered"
- Studio Dialogue
- "Prisoner of Love" (Clarence Gaskill, Leo Robin, Russ Columbo)
- "I Cried"
- "Oh Baby Don't You Weep Pts 1 & 2"
- "(Do The) Mashed Potatoes"
- "Maybe The Last Time" (Ted Wright)
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