The Genius of Funk

# There's a dance... #

INTRODUCTION IN FRENCH

Soul brother number one, James Brown.

# Papa's got a brand-new bag

# Dig that crazy scene

# With you baby

# And the beat

# Ain't no drag

# Papa's got a brand-new bag

# Drag

# No mistake

# We'll jive

# I taste it

# I taste it

# I taste it

# I taste it

# I taste it

-# I can taste it

-Oh, man

-# A little bit of mass

-A little bit of mass

-# Eenie-weenie mass

-Eenie-weenie mass

-# Small mass

-Small mass

-# Itty bitty mass

-Itty bitty mass

-# Eenie-weenie mass

-Eenie-weenie mass

-# Small mass

-Small mass

-# Small mass

-Small mass

-# A little bitty mass

-A little bitty mass

-# A little bitty mass

-A little bitty mass

-# Eenie-weenie mass

-Eenie-weenie mass

-# Eenie-weenie mass

-Eenie-weenie mass

-# Eenie-weenie mass

-Eenie-weenie mass

-# Itty bitty mass

-Itty bitty mass

-# A little bit of mass

-A little bit of mass. #

Oh, yeah!

James Brown!

Gotta get down.

Get down.

Get down.

Get down.

Hey-hey, hey-hey.

Aha.

The last time.

Ha.

Aha.

Get down.

Get down.

All my shining stars, make some noise out there.

Hey, hey.

# When you wish upon a star

# Your dreams will take you very far

# When you wish upon a dream

# Life ain't always what it seems Oh, yeah

# Once you see your light so clear

# In the sky so very dear Oh, yeah

# You're a shining star No matter who you are

# Shining bright to see What you can truly be

# What you can truly be

# Shining star come into view

# Shine its watchful light on you Yeah

# Gives you strength to carry on Yeah

# Make your body big and strong Don't you hear me now?

# On an adventure of the sun Yeah

# It's all awake and just begun Oh, yeah

# Thought I had to stir the mood Yeah

# That's it now I got my own Oh, yeah, oh, yeah

# So if you find yourself in need

# Why don't you listen to these words of heed

# Be a child free of sin

# Be some place... #

Everybody - over here. Let me hear you sing.

# You're a shining star No matter who you are

# Shining bright to see What you can truly be... #

Over here, come on.

# You're a shining star No matter who you are

# Shining bright to see... #

The BBC Concert Orchestra.

# Shining star for you to see what your life can truly be

# Shining star for you to see what your life can truly be

# Shining star for you to see what your life can truly be

# Shining star for you to see what your life can truly be

# Shining star... #

Everybody clap your hands.

# Shining star... #

# What your life... #

-Come on, come on!

-# Shining star... #

Come on, come on, come on

-# What your life... #

-All the people in the place

# Shining star... #

-Everybody in the house!

-# What your life... #

# Space people

# Universal lovers

# Space people

# Universal lovers

# Space people

# Universal lovers

# Space people

# Universal lovers

# Do you wanna dance

# Do you wanna dance

# She was well known through the ghetto

# Tricks would come and then they'd go

# The neighbours would talk and call her Jezebel

# I can hear my mother call

# I can hear my mother call

# Late at night I hear her call

# She says, Father Father, it's for the kids

# Any and everything I did

# Please, please don't judge me too strong

# Lord knows I meant no wrong

# Lord knows I meant no wrong. #

One...three, four, one,

two, three, four...and you hit on the one.

One, you know?

One, you know? Mm.

And then you would try to fit your different notes,

what you felt, in between that, like...

..you know? And that's the funk, you know?

And you can change that.

You know? And you know, it's however you feel but you have to fit it

between that space, that little space that you've got, which is...

one, two, three, four...

one, two, you know? Four,

one, two, three, four, one...

And then you go back to your funk, here you go.

One...

And then you want to break it down, break down.

One, three, four, you know? And there you go, you've

got your basic funk formula there.

You know, you can do anything you want to do with it.

HE SPEAKS RHYTHMICALLY: "Funk is dead," is what they said

While sitting around cheating at pool

The bags were bagging and they were bragging

To tell the truth, they were looking real cool

Now, they were choked up tight in their white on white

Their cocoa brown fronts were down

They wore candy-striped ties that hung down to their flies

And they sported gold-dust crowns

It was the fifteenth frame of a nine-ball game

They all stood digging the play

With an idle shrug

They suddenly dug a strange cat moving their way

He was a medium-built cat with a funny-time hat

That looked about five years old.

He wore a messed-up vibe and he needed a shine

And he shivered as if he was cold

Now, to all the other guys They surmised

This dude was an ordinary flunky

But to the well-trained eyes of how the mother ship flies

You could tell the sucker was funky

And we wants to funk.

Yeah!

# Everybody funking and don't know how

# Should've seen the bull when he funked the cow

# He funked her so hard they saw some smoke

# Said, let's go to London and funk with the folk

# People! Yeah!

# Don't you?

# There once was a member of a group

# Who went to sleep in his canoe

# He was dreaming of Venus

# Took out his penis and woke up with a handful of goo

# Put your foot on the rock

# Look for the downstroke

# Look for the downstroke

# Get up

# Get up

# Get up

# Look for the downstroke

# Everybody, get up

# Everybody, get up

# We be funking over here

# Over there ain't shit

# We be funking over here

# Over there ain't shit

# We be funking over here

# Over there ain't shit

# We be funking over here

# Over there ain't shit

# Free your mind Your ass will follow

# Nothing is good unless you play with it

# And all that is good is nasty

# Come along W-E-F-U-N-K

# We funk, the home of the extraterrestrial brothers

# We're playing funky music

# Hit me

# Blame it on you

# Blame it on you

# Blame it on you

# Stupid dog, you out

# Stupid dog, you out

# Spud dog Marmaduke dog, you out

# Goofy dog, you out

# Snoopy dog, you out

# Spud dog Marmaduke dog, you out

# Get a little funk then you sell out

# Shake a few rumps then you sold out

# We did all of that without selling out

# Blame it on you

# Blame it on you

# Yeah, I got your funk

# I call my baby Pussy

# P-U-S-S-Y

# I call my baby Pussy

# P-U-S-S-Y

# Yo! Yo! Yo!

# Joe! Joe! Joe! #

# Let's do something funky! #

You know what?

Your jungle boogie!

Glastonbury!

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

-# Give me some of that!

-Where the boogie at?

# Give me some of that! Give me some of that!

# I say who? Come on!

# I say who?

# Who?!

# I say who?

# Get up on the good time Get up on the good time

# Get up on the good time Get up on the good time. #

Glastonbury!

# Clap your hands like this

# Come on, clap your hands

# Everybody, clap your hands like this

# Come on, clap your hands

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down

# Get down, get down. #

CHEERING

# I just got home from Vietnam

# I come home and find my brother gone

# Whoa

# Yeah

# Whoa-whoa-oa

# You want some of them

# The bus is comin'

# The funky system's gotta fall

# Or it's gotta be changed to include us all

# Hey, y'all

# The Constitution The Bill of Rights, yeah

# Hey, the bus is comin'

# Now is the time for you to understand

# You can't keep a good man down

# Why don't you try to lend a helping hand?

# We can work it out together

# Live in harmony forever, Lord

# Got drunk one night and I went to jail

# The nasty pigs wouldn't set my bail

# Oh, Lord

# I don't know why they did that

# I had the money

# Why are things so funky?

# The bus is comin'

# Now is the time for you to understand

# You can't keep a good man down

# Why don't you try to lend a helping hand?

# We can work it out together

# Live in harmony for ever, Lord

# Got drunk one night and I went to jail

# The nasty pigs wouldn't set my bail

# Oh, Lord

# I don't know why they did that

# I had the money

# Why are things so funky?

# The bus is comin'

# Yeah

# The bus is comin'

# The bus is comin'

# The bus is comin'

# Yeah, yeah

# The bus is comin'

# The bus is comin'

# Hey, yeah Yeah, yeah...

CROWD CLAPS

Keep it right there, y'all.

Feels good, right there.

# Yeah-eah

# Yeah, yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah, yeah

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah! #

# Very superstitious

# Writing's on the wall

# Very superstitious

# Ladders' about to fall

# 13-month-old baby

# Broke the lookin' glass

# Seven years of bad luck

# The good things in your past

# When you believe in things that you don't understand

# Then you suffer

# Superstition ain't the way

# Hey, hey, hey, hey

# Ooh, very superstitious

# Wash your face and hands

# Rid me of the problem

# Do all that you can

# Keep me in a daydream

# Keep me goin' strong

# You don't wanna save me

# Sad is my song

# When you believe in things that you don't understand

# Then you suffer

# Superstition ain't the way

# Hey, hey, hey, yeah

# Everybody scream!

THEY SCREAM

# Very superstitious

# Nothin' more to say

# Very superstitious

# The devil's on his way

# 13-month-old baby

# Broke the lookin' glass

# Seven years of bad luck

# Good things in your past

# When you believe in things that you don't understand

# Then you suffer

# Superstition ain't the way

# Uh-uh, no, no, no. #

CHEERING

So, how do you slap?

Well, this is the secret.

It comes from the thumb bone - the magical thumb bone.

And what you do is you strike the string against the fingerboard

and then move away, allowing the string to vibrate.

One, two, there, four.

And notice how the drum kind of complements the bass lick.

Three, four.

-# Whoa, huh

-# Do your dance

-# Whoa, huh, hey

-# To the rhythm

# Whoa, huh

-# Whoa, huh, hey

-# We just havin' fun

# Well, do your dance to the rhythm

# On the floor We're just havin' fun, hey

# Well, we gon' start at midnight

# Get down, get down

# Party till the mornin' light

# Get down, get down

# We ain't ever gonna stop

# Until we get it right

# Ain't that right?

# Ain't that right? Whoo

# Do your dance to the rhythm

# Roll the drum We're just havin' fun

# Come on, people Do your dance to the rhythm

# Roll the drums We're just havin' fun, hey

# Good music makes you feel like dancing

# Don't it make you feel good?

# Don't it make you wanna get down?

# Good music

# Do that

# Do that dance

# Do your dance

# To the rhythm

# On the floor

# We're just havin' fun

# Do your dance

# To the rhythm

# On the floor

# We're just havin' fun

# Do your dance

# To the rhythm

# On the floor

# We're just havin' fun

# Do your dance

# To the rhythm

# On the floor

# We're just havin' fun... #

# Wanting someone to feel

# Feel

-# Sat upon the hill

-Hill

# And waited all day for Jill

-# Jill

-Jill

-# Always away from home

-Home

-# Never bothering to phone

-Phone

# Always leaving poor Jack alone

# Now, why do you think

# Jack snuck down the hill?

# He snuck down the hill

-# Cos he needed love

-He needed love

-# Love he couldn't get from Jill

-Oh, yes, he did

# Why do you think

# Jack snuck down the hill?

# He snuck down the hill

-# Cos he needed love

-Oh, yes, he did

# Love he couldn't get from Jill

-# Jack

-Jack

-# Like Little Red Riding Hood

-Hood

-# Always trying to do good

-Good

# Waited as long as he could

-# Jill

-Jill

-# Is it right or wrong

-Wrong

# For Jack to carry on

# On

# If you leave him home too long?

# Now, why do you think

# Jack snuck down the hill?

# He snuck down, he snuck down Broke his crown

-# Cos he needed love

-Sweet love

# Love he couldn't get from Jill

# Oh, sweet, sweet love

# Why do you think

# Jack snuck down the hill?

# He snuck down the hill

-# He needed love

-Oh, yes, he did

# Love he couldn't get from Jill, yeah.

# Jack

# Jill

# Jack

# Jill

# Now, why do you think

# Jack snuck down the hill?

# Why do you think he snuck down the hill?

-# Cos he needed love

-He needed love... #

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you, hmm

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you Yes, I am

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# Baby, what I see

# I like a lot

# Nothing's going to change my mind

# That you're the one

# Now, I want to find what else

# You got, sugar

-# Come on, cos I know

-You're the one

# I'm the one - whoo!

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# No moonshake No shuffling

# Gonna get me your loving

# That easy

# The slower I go

# There's a chance that you might slip away

# Got to say

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I've been watching you from day to day

-# Thinking to myself

-She's the one

# I don't need nobody else

# To say to me, no

# And I need that love

# She's the one

# You got to know it

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I've seen some of the dance steps

# There has been no resistance to my eye, no

# Oh, no

# Your smile kind of tells me

# That I might just be the one for you

# What I do?

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you, yeah

MOUTH MUSIC

# Whoo!

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# A-a-a-a-a-a-h

# I'm the one

# I'm the one I'm the one

# That wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one I'm the one

# That wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one I'm the one

# That wants you

# I'm the one

# I'm the one I'm the one

# That wants you

# I'm the one I'm the one

# I'm the one that wants you

# Hey, hey, hey, hey

# Hey, hey. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I'd like to say that this song...

from my Sunlight album...

is the song that really started me

thinking about singing,

thanks to the help of a device called vocoder.

With this device,

even a keyboard player like Herbie Hancock can sing.

It's a song called I Thought It Was You.

APPLAUSE

# Just a glance

# From behind

# Happened by chance

# Or design

# The perfume

# She wore

# Took me back

# Took me back through a door

# I had closed

# Long ago

# Suddenly

# I thought it was you

# Thought it was you

# Thought it was you

# Thought it was you

# Remember what we knew

# I thought it was you

# Thought it was you

# Thought it was you

# Remember when I thought it was you

# We were young

# Love was new

# Warm as the sun

# Shining through

# In your arms

# In your arms, it seemed

# It seemed

# I went back

# To a dream

# I had seen

# Yeah, I had seen so long ago

# Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly

-# I thought it was you

-Thought it was you

-# I thought it was you

-Thought it was you

# I thought it was you

# I thought it was you

-# I thought it was you

-Thought it was you

-# I thought it was you

-Thought it was you

# I thought it was

# I thought that it was you... #

Now, Brecon, I'm going to ask everybody in this hall -

every single one of you - to put your hands above your head,

like this. Everybody! Come on!

Put them together, like this.

Now, let me see you jump in the air.

# Oh, yeah, yeah

# Come on now, come on now

# Hey, let me tell

# I used to buy my faith in worship

# But then, my chance to get to Heaven slimmed

# I used to worry about the future

# But then I threw my caution to the wind

# I had no reason to be carefree

# No, no, no

# Till I took a trip to the other side of town

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# You know I heard that boogie rhythm

# Come on, I had no choice but to get down, down, down, down

# And dance

# Nothing left for me to do but dance

# Off these bad times I'm going through

# Just dance

# I got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby

# You know I got canned heat in my heels

# I feel the thunder See the lightning

# I know this anger's Heaven-sent

# So I've got to hang out all my hang-ups

# Because of the boogie I feel so hellbent, hey, hey

# It's just an instant gut reaction that I get

# I know I've never ever felt like this before

# I don't know what to do

# But then, that's nothing new

# Stuck between hell and high water I need a cure, to make it through

# Dance!

# Nothing left for me to do but dance

# Off these bad times I'm going through, just dance

# Got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby

# You know I got canned heat in my heels

# Whoo!

# Ooh, hah

# Only the wind can know the answers

# And she cries to me when I'm asleep

# She says, you know that you can go much faster

# I know that people's talk can be so cheap

Come on!

# I got this voodoo child ingrained on me

# I'm gonna use my power to ascend now

# You know I got these running heels to use

# Such a mess No way I lose

# I was born to run and built to last

# You've never seen my feet cos they move so fast

# I'm dancing

# Nothing left for me to do but dance

# Off these bad times I'm going through, just dance

# I got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby

# You know I got canned heat in my heels

# Dance, yeah

# All the nasty things that people say

# Just dance, hey

# But I'm gonna make it anyway

# Dance, dance, yeah

# Got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby

# All right! Whoo!

# You know that this boogie is for real

# Got so much canned heat in my heels, yeah

# Gonna dance Gonna dance my blues away tonight

# You know I've got to dance my blues away

# You know, you know, this boogie This boogie is for real

# I got so much canned heat Got canned heat in my heels, baby

# I'm gonna dance Gonna dance my blues away tonight

# Got to dance my blues away... #

Can you shake it, party people?

# There's a fight, come on!

# Hey, DJ, let the music play

# I'm gonna live this party life

# Hey, DJ, throw my cares away

# I wanna live this party life

# Got to live this party life

# Got to live this party life, yeah

# You know I want to live this party life

# Got to live it Got to live it

# Want to live this party life

# Got to live it Got to live it

# Got to live this party life

# Got to live it Got to live it

# Got to live this party life

# Got to live it Got to live it

# Hey!

# Got to dance

# You know you want to dance, yeah

# You've got to dance

# You know you want to dance, yeah

# You've got to dance

# You know you want to dance, yeah. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I'm mixing business with leather

# Christmas with Heather

# Freaks flock together

# And make all the beat boys scream

# All right All right

# Turn it up now Turn it up now

# All right

# All right

# Turn it up now

# Oh, oh, oh

# Word up to the man thing

# She's always cold-lamping

# Advising at the canteen

# I just wanna watch you dance

# All right All right

-# Turn it up now

-Turn it up now

# All right

# All right

# Turn it up now

# Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Do you wanna ride on the Baltic Sea?

# I'll be your mistress C-O-D

# I'll comb your hair Rewrite your diary

# Pour champagne on a honey bee

# She can really do me

# She can really do me

# She can look right through me

# And make all the beat boys scream

# All right

# All right

# All right

# All right

# I'm mixing fitness with leather

# Christmas with Heather

# Freaks flock together

# And make all the lesbians scream

# All right

# All right

-# Turn it up now

-Turn it up now

-# All right

-All right

# Turn it up now

# Ooh, ooh, ooh

# Do you wanna ride on the Baltic Sea?

# I'll be your mistress C-O-D

# I'll comb your hair Rewrite your diary

# Pour champagne on a honey bee

# She can really do me

# She can really do me

# She can look right through me

# And make all the beat boys scream

# All right

# All right

# All right

# All right... #

For my days, Sly & The Family Stone, come on!

Everybody, get up!

And dance to the music!

Come on!

Come on down!

And dance to the funky music!

Come on!

# Dance to the music

# Dance to the music

# Dance to the music

# Dance to the music

# All we need is a drummer

# The people only need a beat, yeah!

# I'm gonna add a little guitar

# To make it easy to move your feet

# I'm gonna add some bottom

# So that the dancers just won't hide, ha-ha!

# You might like to hear my organ

# I said ride, Sally, ride

Come on, keep it going!

# Dance to the music

# Oh, yeaaah!

# Dance to the music

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Dance to the music

# Dance to the music... #

Thank you for letting us be ourselves again. Oh!

CHEERING

Thank you! We love all y'all!