A concert poster advertising The James Brown Revue’s April 1986 show at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. Proclaiming ‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag’, the bold design features The Godfather in action. In Very Good+ condition, with a single set of staple holes near the four corners, and a barely noticeable closed edge tear not […]
A UK first pressing of James Brown’s 1964 album Showtime, from the legendary collection of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. This album has Wyman’s handwritten notations on the back cover. Bill Wyman is legendary as a musician, a blues historian, an author and for his world-class collection of Rolling Stones memorabilia. This album was sold […]
A first pressing of James Brown’s album Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, from the legendary collection of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. This album has Wyman’s written notations on the back cover. Bill Wyman is legendary as a musician, a blues historian, an author and for his world-class collection of Rolling Stones memorabilia. This […]
A first pressing of James Brown’s album Grits & Soul, from the legendary collection of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. This album has Wyman’s handwritten notations on the back cover. Bill Wyman is legendary as a musician, a blues historian, an author and for his world-class collection of Rolling Stones memorabilia. This album was sold […]
An extraordinary double-size boxing-style cardboard concert poster, advertising a June 5, 1964 show by The James Brown Show featuring The James Brown Big Band, The Famous Flames, Bobby Byrd, Anna King and Johnny & Bill at the Lansing Michigan Civic Center. This is the most appealing James Brown poster we’ve seen; it’s very large, the […]
A superb double-size cardboard concert poster advertising James Brown’s October 23, 1971 concert at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. This stunner has it all–large size, a fluorescent portrait of Brown, great text–‘Sex Power and Love” and “The Sex Machine”, and song titles including “Lost Someone”, “Black and Proud”, “Super Bad”, “Soul Power” “Sex Machine”, “Hot […]
An extraordinary pair of custom-made patent leather boots, each with the sewn on initials JB, owned and stage worn by the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Each of these handmade boots, lined in leather and suede, have a zipper on the inside, and Brown’s initials sewn onto the outside below the buckle. The soles […]
A custom made jumpsuit and rhinestone studded vest, owned and worn on stage by the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, during the 1970’s. The green jumpsuit has a silver embroidered front with zipper closure. The long green vest has a silver embroidered collar, black lining and rhinestone accents. This outfit, a pair of Brown’s boots […]
An extremely rare concert poster advertising a series of shows by James Brown at the Paris Olympia in September and October 1967. These legendary shows came at Brown’s peak; during 1966 and 1967 Brown released some of his highest charting singles including “Ain’t That a Groove”, “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World”, “Don’t Be a […]
A beautiful Near Mint/Near Mint- mono first pressing of James Brown’s legendary 1963 album Live at The Apollo, on King Records. This copy, with the large King logo on the labels, looks barely played–perhaps two or three times at most. About 95% of the original shrink wrap is intact (there is a small bit missing […]
A sealed first pressing of James Brown’s 1968 album I Can’t Stand It When You Touch Me on King. This has the custom back cover which identifies it as a first pressing, and it is as beautiful as you could hope to see–perfect square corners, factory shrink wrap fully intact; just a minor crease to […]
Sid Nathan, legendary founder/owner of King Records (and the man who found James Brown) made a tape in the late 50’s to be played for his distributors around the country, sharing his wit and wisdom about the record business in his extremely eccentric and idiosyncratic way. Tom Noonan, the late record business legend and former […]