64K views · 4.5K reactions | James Brown’s catalog of songs is one of the most diverse in all of recorded music. He was able to rework the classic Chuck Berry hit, “In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Night),” by drawing on his various inspirations and styles! | James Brown | Facebook

April 5, 1968 was the date James Brown had been scheduled to play the Boston Garden. On the morning after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. city officials in Boston were scrambling to prepare for a second straight night of violent unrest. A young African American councilman named Tom Atkins proposed not cancelling Brown’s concert like some suggested and instead trying to find a way to mount a free, live broadcast in hopes of keeping people at home and off the streets. Boston’s publ

While performing at the Boston Garden in 1968, James Brown performed his song “There Was A Time” just one day after the death of #MLK. Watch the full performance here: http://smarturl.it/ThereWasATime.Live | James Brown