![]() ![]() ![]() Each reflected the sound of the year, so Christmas Songs was steeped in dramatic, string-laden uptown soul A Soulful Christmas dug deep into the grooves, going so far as to include “Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud” in the thick of the proceedings and Hey America was powered by deep, heavy funk. And his three holiday LPs were not interchangeable, either. ![]() Unlike most artists who bend themselves to fit the standards of the season, Brown didn’t abandon his carefully crafted style for Christmas: he made records that sounded like his hits, they just happened to be about Santa Claus and Christmastime. Part of Hip-O Select's exhaustive and terrific James Brown reissue series, 2010’s The Complete James Brown Christmas is a double-disc set that rounds up his three seasonal albums for King - 1966’s Christmas Songs, 1968’s A Soulful Christmas, 1970’s Hey America - and a handful of non-LP singles and single edits. ![]()
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