Live performance ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐จ๐ฝ (๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด A) ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ - Rome 1971: Teatro 10
๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ค๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ: ๐๐ง๐ง(๐ฎ) ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง
- โThe Godfather of Soulโ: James Joseph Brown (Barnwell, 3 May 1933 โ โ Atlanta, 25 December 2006 - 73 yrs)
Recording of the the original version of โGet Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machineโ:
on April 25, 1970, at Starday King Studio in Cincinnati.
This video with famed band director and on-stage hypeman Bobby Byrd.
- Bobby Byrd - backing vocals, piano - (August 15, 1934 Toccoa, Georgia - โ Loganville, Georgia September 12, 2007 - aged 73)
- Phelps โCatfishโ Collins - lead guitar - (born October 17, 1943 โ โ August 6, 2010)
- Hearlon โCheeseโ Martin - guitar
- William โBootsyโ Collins - bass guitar (born October 26, 1951- Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Fred Wesley - trombone (born July 4, 1943)
- St. Clair Pinckney - tenor saxophone (born September 17, 1930 โ โ February 1, 1999)
- Darryl โโHasaanโโ Jamison - trumpet
- Clayton โChickenโ Gunnells - trumpet
- John โJaboโ Starks - drums
- Don Juan โTigerโโ Martin - drums
LYRiCS:
Fellas, Iโm ready to get up and do my thing (yeah go ahead!)
I wanta get into it, man, you know (go ahead!)
Like a, like a sex machine, man, (yeah go ahead!)
Movinโ and doinโ it, you know
Can I count it off? (Go ahead)
One, two, three, four!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Wait a minute!
Shake your arm, then use your form
Stay on the scene like a sex machine
You got to have the feeling sure as youโre born
Get it together, right on, right on.
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Hah!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
You said, you said you got the,
You said the feeling,
You said the feeling you got to get
You give me the fever โnโ a cold sweat.
The way i like, it is the way it is,
I got mine โnโ donโt worry โbout his
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Bobby! Should I take โem to the bridge?
(Go Ahead!)
Take โem on to the bridge!
(Take em to the bridge!)
Should I take โem to the bridge?
(Yeah!)
Take โem to the bridge?
(Go Ahead!)
Hit me now!
Come on!
Stay on the scene, like a sex machine!
The way I like it is, is the way it is
I got mine, (dig it!), he got his
Stay on the scene, like a lovinโ machine
Stay on the scene, like a lovinโ machine
Stay on the scene
I wanna count it off one more time now
(Go ahead!)
You wanna hear it like it did on the top fellas?
(Yeah!)
Hear it like it did on the top?
(Yeah!)
Hit it now!
Get on up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get on up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a lovinโ machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Taste, (get on up)
Beinโ, (get on up)
Taste, (get on up)
Beinโ, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
You gotta have the feelin, (get on up)
Sure as youโre born, (get on up)
Get it together, right on, right on
Right on, right on, (right on, right on)
Right on, right on, (right on, right on)
Right on, right on, (right on, right on)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
And then, shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Huh!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Can we hit it like we did one more time, from the top
Can we hit like that one more time
(One more time!)
One more time!
Letโs hit it and quit! (Go ahead!)
Can we hit it and quit? (Yeah!)
Can we hit it and quit? (Yeah!)
Can we hit it and quit? (Yeah!)
Hit it!