| "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 1)" | ||||
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| Single by James Brown | ||||
| from the album Take a Look at Those Cakes | ||||
| B-side | "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 2)" | |||
| Released | October 1978 | |||
| Genre | Funk | |||
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| Label | Polydor 14522 | |||
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| Producer(s) | James Brown | |||
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"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is a song written and performed by James Brown. Released as an edited two-part single in 1978, it charted #52 R&B in 1979.[1][2] A full-length version appears on the album Take a Look at Those Cakes. Brown talks loudly and clearly in rhyme without only brief singing involved, this track being in part a precursor to the hip hop style which was yet to mount on record in a few years time. Robert Christgau described the song as "a great throwaway--an eleven-minute rumination on ass-watching, including genuinely tasteless suggestions that Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder join the fun."[3]