Artist: James Brown

Title: Funky Christmas

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 1995

Label: Polydor / Umgd

UPC: 731452798824

Genre: Soul/R & B, Xmas Vocal

Album Tracks

1. Go Power at Christmas Time
2. Let's Unite the Whole World at Christmas
3. Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto
4. Merry Christmas Baby
5. Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year
6. Soulful Christmas
7. The Christmas Song (Version I)
8. Sweet Little Baby Boy
9. Christmas Is Love
10. Please Come Home for Christmas
11. Santa Claus Is Definitley Here to Stay
12. Tit for Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)
13. Santa Claus, Santa Claus
14. Merry Christmas, I Love You
15. Signs of Christmas
16. Christmas in Heaven
17. Hey America

James Brown's beloved Christmas album finds him meeting traditional Yuletide sentiment halfway and making it funky. It's an album that not only references old Saint Nick, but gives him orders, such as in "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto." The album's signature playfulness isn't just veneer, but if you were to scrape it with a fingernail you'd find that for James Brown a Merry Christmas is an act of will.