For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes

"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 1)"
Single by James Brown
from the album Take a Look at Those Cakes
B-side"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 2)"
ReleasedOctober 1978 (1978-10)
GenreFunk
Length
  • 3:22 (Part 1)
  • 4:17 (Part 2)
LabelPolydor
14522
Songwriter(s)
  • James Brown
  • Deidre Brown
Producer(s)James Brown
James Brown charting singles chronology
"The Spank"
(1978) 		"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 1)"
(1978) 		"It's Too Funky in Here"
(1979)
Audio video
"For Goodness Sakes, Take A Look At Those Cakes (Pt.1)" on YouTube

"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 with 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]

  1. ^ "Take a Look at Those Cakes - James Brown". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  2. ^ White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
  3. ^ "CG: Artist 1793". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2016-10-13.