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James Brown

Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like a) Sex Machine
1970 · via A Tribe Called Quest
James Brown – Get Up (I Feel Like Being Like a) Sex Machine
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Money Maker leans on a song James Brown put on record first, with Bobby Byrd sharing the writing credit. Start there, and Prince is waiting a little further down the same road.

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Written by James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff.

First recorded by James Brown in 1970.

Also recorded by Prince (1988), Helge Schneider (1995), The Flying Lizards (1984).

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A Tribe Called Quest's Money Maker carries the writing credit of an earlier funk record, Sex Machine. Who first recorded that one?James Brown
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