Reaction - James Brown Medley on Ed Sullivan (1966)

[@VinVonVoom]

James came back for another performance on Ed Sullivan in October of 1966 and it was similarly incredible, highly recommend it. Try to find the 6 minute version on KZbin it's great.

[@DarlingReacts]

Thanks, I'll find it and check it out. If it gives me an excuse to do another reaction video, that's a bonus.

[@teagiagiteakarotu7027]

great reaction now go watch jackie wilson sing To be loved at the ed sullivan show ! a great entertainment they called Mr.excitment

[@DarlingReacts]

I will go do that. Jackie Wilson can get anybody moving.

[@VinVonVoom]

I love love love his performance of Lonely Teardrops from 1962 on Ed Sullivan, what swagger that man has.

[@DarlingReacts]

Thanks for your recomendation! I am about to post my reaction to that! Will be up in a few minutes.

[@PaulDA2000]

Great reaction but this was 1966, not 1965.

[@DarlingReacts]

You are correct. The Ed Sullivan Show channel has it correct in its description but wrong in the video title.

[@PaulDA2000]

@@DarlingReacts yeah he was on there twice in 1966. It seems he had a falling out with Ed Sullivan from what we all try to gather on the James Brown Facebook pages. we don’t know the exact story but the one we hear the most was that Mr. Brown wanted to sing his message song DON’T BE A DROPOUT and Ed Sullivan thought it was too political or something like. in any case he was never on there again which is a shame because it Sullivan got 10 times the audience that shows like the Tonight Show or the Mike Douglas show. James Brown has been my favorite entertainer since I was 12 years old and 1968. I’ve seen him about 100 times in concert from 1971 until 2005, I have all of his albums all of his 45s, I met him a few times. And all that good stuff. I really like how enthusiastic you are about watching this performance and I hope you will consider James Brown performances especially the TAMI show from 1964. He performed four songs there but the best too if you could react to them would be PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and NIGHT TRAIN. The first one is by far the best example of the Cape routine and the second one has Mr. Brown’s most energetic dancing ever captured on film. Oh and about the cape Mr. Brown was a boxer for a couple of years but that’s not why he starts with the cape, it’s a combination of watching the old Pentecostal preachers and then watching Gorgeous George the wrestler in the 1950s and early 1960s, he used to always wear a cape into the ring.