| "I've Got Money" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by James Brown | ||||
| from the album Tour the U.S.A. | ||||
| A-side | "Three Hearts in a Tangle" | |||
| Released | November 1962 | |||
| Recorded | May 21, 1962, King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | |||
| Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
| Length | 2:30 | |||
| Label | King 5701 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | James Brown | |||
| Producer(s) | Unknown | |||
| James Brown charting singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio video | ||||
| "I've Got Money" on YouTube | ||||
"I've Got Money" is a song written and recorded by James Brown. It was released as the B-side of Brown's 1962 R&B hit "Three Hearts in a Tangle". It charted on its own, reaching #93 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] Both songs appeared on the album Tour the U.S.A..
Biographer R.J. Smith describes "I've Got Money" as "one of the less-known great records of Brown's career":
It's a song whose time has yet to arrive, and it's barely a song. It's like a blueprint of some uncanny object. It's an assemblage of parts: a scimitar guitar chord coming down on the One, a show band horn chorus quoting Judy Garland's "The Trolley Song," and [Clayton Fillyau's] stampeding drums. The parts are arranged in a line, one beside the next - an incomprehensible rebus.[2]
Both Smith and Allmusic's Richie Unterberger point to the song as a stylistic precursor to Brown's later funk recordings.[3]
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown covered "I Got Money" on their 1968 self-titled debut album.