"Cold Sweat – Part 1" | ||||
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Single by James Brown | ||||
from the album Cold Sweat | ||||
B-side | "Cold Sweat – Part 2" | |||
Released | July 1967 | |||
Recorded | May 1967, King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio | |||
Genre | Funk[1] | |||
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Label | King 6110 | |||
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Producer(s) | James Brown | |||
James Brown charting singles chronology | ||||
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Audio video | ||||
"Cold Sweat Part 1" on YouTube |
"Cold Sweat" is a song performed by James Brown and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis. Brown recorded it in May 1967. An edited version of "Cold Sweat" released as a two-part single on King Records was a No. 1 R&B hit, and reached number seven on the Pop Singles chart.[2][3] The complete recording, more than seven minutes long, was included on an album of the same name.
Brown's lyrics describe how his woman's affections make him "break out in a cold sweat."
In 2016 James Brown's "Cold Sweat-Part 1" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[4]