Cold Sweat

For other uses, see Cold sweat (disambiguation).

"Cold Sweat – Part 1"
Single by James Brown
from the album Cold Sweat
B-side"Cold Sweat – Part 2"
ReleasedJuly 1967
RecordedMay 1967, King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio
GenreFunk[1]
Length
  • 2:55 (Part 1)
  • 3:55 (Part 2)
  • 7:30 (album version)
LabelKing
6110
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)James Brown
James Brown charting singles chronology
"Let Yourself Go"
(1967) 		"Cold Sweat – Part 1"
(1967) 		"Get It Together (Part 1)"
(1967)
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]

  1. ^ "100 Greatest Funk Songs". Digital Dream Door. August 7, 2008. Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 84.
  3. ^ White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
  4. ^ "GRAMMY Hall of Fame". October 18, 2010.