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"I'll Go Crazy" is a 1960 rhythm and
blues song recorded by James Brown and The Famous
Flames.[1] It was
a Top 20 Billboard
R&B hit, charting at #15. It was performed by the group as the
first song on their million-selling album Live at the
Apollo. It is perhaps best remembered for the lyrics on the song's bridge:
"You gotta live... For yourself... For yourself..and nobody
else!"
"I'll Go Crazy" has inspired cover versions by many different artists,
including The Rolling Stones, The Moody
Blues, The
Buckinghams, Chris
Isaak, The Phantoms, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Buddy Guy, The Nighthawks,
Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy, Graham Bonnet, and The Bad Boys. It
was performed by Dan
Aykroyd in the actor's tribute to Brown on his induction at the
2003 Kennedy Center Honors.
This song is used on the Late
Show With David Letterman as theme music for the "Who Said
It?" segment.
Personnel
James Brown and
The Famous
Flames: Bobby
Byrd, Bobby Bennett, Lloyd Stallworth.
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live albums |
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singles |
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"Escape-ism" · "Hot
Pants" · "Make It
Funky" · "I'm A Greedy
Man" · "Hey
America" · "Talkin' Loud and Sayin'
Nothing" · "King
Heroin" · "There It
Is" · "Honky
Tonk" · "Get on the Good
Foot" · "I Got a Bag of My
Own" · "I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want to
Dance)" · "What My Baby Needs Now Is a Little More
Lovin'" · "Down And Out In New York
City" · "Think
'73" · "Sexy, Sexy,
Sexy" · "Stoned to the
Bone" · "The
Payback" · "My
Thang" · "Papa Don't Take No
Mess" · "Funky
President" · "Coldblooded" ·
"Hustle!!! (Dead on
It)" · "Reality" ·
"Sex Machine
'76" · "Superbad,
Superslick" · "Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved,
Loved)" · "(I Love You) For Sentimental
Reasons" · "Get Up Offa That
Thing" · "I Refuse to
Lose" · "Body
Heat" · "Kiss in
'77" · "Give Me Some
Skin" · "If You Don't Give a Doggone About
It" · "Eyesight" ·
"The
Spank" · "For Goodness Sakes (Take a Look at
Those Cakes)" · "It's Too Funky In
Here" · "Star
Generation" · "Regrets" ·
"Rapp Payback (Where Iz
Moses)" · "Stay With Me" |
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releases |
" Night Time Is the Right
Time" · "Bring It On...Bring It
On" · "Unity" ·
"Froggy
Mix" · "Living in
America" · "Gravity" ·
"How Do You
Stop" · "She's The
One" · "The Payback
Mix" · "I'm
Real" · "Static" ·
"Gimme Your
Love" · "(So Tired of Standing Still We Got to)
Move On" · "I Got You (I Feel
Good)" · "Can't Get Any
Harder" · "Funk On A
Roll" · "Killing Is Out, School is
In" |
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