Bobby Howard Byrd (August 15, 1934 - September 12, 2007) is an R & amp; B/Soul American, songwriter, bandleader, talent scout, record producer, and musician, who play an integral and important part in the development of soul and funk music in relationship with James Brown. Byrd began his career in 1952 as a member of the Gospel Starlighters Bible group, which later changed their name to Avon in 1953 and the Five Royals in 1954, before settling under the name Flames in 1955 before Brown joined the group; their agents then turn it into The Famous Flames. Byrd is the founder of The Real Flames and is credited with the invention of James Brown. He also claimed responsibility for writing most of James Brown's hit. As the group's founder, and one of the longest members of the group, Byrd was inducted into Rock & amp; Roll Hall of Fame posthumously in 2012. Byrd also became the recipient of the Pioneer Rhythm and Blues Foundation 1998 Awards. Byrd helped inspire the musical aspirations of James Brown, who started his career with Byrd.
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Early life and career
Byrd was born in Toccoa, Georgia, to a religious family, where they are members of a respected and active church congregation there. Byrd started active in his local church choir with the group, the Zioneers, then made a name for himself as a member of Starlighters Gospel, which included his sister Sarah. At a time when the church elders did not approve of secular singing, the band members would leave their home country and perform in South Carolina as an R & B, the Avon family, they finally left the Bible behind and continued as the Avon family. The original group consisted of Byrd, who played the piano, organ and sang the main vocals; and Nafloyd Scott, Fred Pulliam and Doyle Oglesby.
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James Brown Meeting and the formation of The Famous Flames
In 1952, Bobby Byrd formed and sang with a gospel group called Gospel Starlighters. During a friendly baseball game in a juvenile prison, he meets a young James Brown who spends time there on a robbery charge. Byrd befriended him and set Byrd's family to keep an eye on Brown's parole. It started a personal and professional association that lasted until 1973.
Although Byrd will eventually have more than twenty years as a soloist, it is his relationship with Brown that he especially remembers. Contrary to belief, the group has changed its name to Flames when Brown asked Byrd to get a place in the group, with Brown first settling as a drummer. Finally Brown is encouraged to appear as a lead singer, as he feels the main vocalist gets more attention than women. Byrd recognizes early that Brown is unique and impossible to control it: "I do not need him in competition, I need him with me, that's why I work so hard to take him to my group." In 1956, Clint Brantley signed up as a group manager. Together with Johnny Terry and Nash Knox, the group became "The Famous Flames" and won a deal with the Federal Ralph Bass label, which was a subsidiary of King Syd Nathan's label, in February 1956. Their first record, "Please, Please, Please" , which Byrd wrote with Johnny Terry, featured lead vocalist James Brown and was released by billing, "James Brown and The Famous Flames", which did not match the rest of the group. After three sessions, the original Flames broke up. In the last session Byrd and Brown wrote rhythm and blues dancers "Can not Be the Same", which is one of many collaborations with Brown who failed to get Byrd's credit.
Flames without Brown changed their name to Byrd's Drops of Joy. However, they found little success; when Brown approached them to reform the Flames they agreed on. At this point, The Famous Flames ceases to be a vocal/instrumental group, and became a direct vocal group, since Brown began wearing J.C. clothing. The old Davis as his street band. Original Flames members Bobby Byrd and Johnny Terry return, and new Flames members Bobby Bennett and Baby Lloyd Stallworth are added. Together with Brown, these four men consist of the longest surviving ranks of The Flames. The original Flames guitarist, Nafloyd Scott also returned and added to the band. The rest of the original Flames faded into obscurity.
With this lineup, the group will have a series of hits between 1959 and 1964 and participate in many albums that help bring R & B to crossover audiences, including the legendary live album of 1963, Lives in Apollo Byrd and The Famous Flames also performed together on several episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show , made a brief appearance in the film , Ski Party and defeated the headliners of The Rolling Stones at the 1964 concert landmark/rock movie, The TAMI Show . Byrd (and fellow Famous Flame Lloyd Stallworth) is credited as a songwriter on the hit Flames, "Lost Someone," though Brown is the only member who sings on recordings. His success brought Brown to record more songs himself, but the majority of his initial hits were as Famous Flames members including songs like "Try Me", "I'll Go Crazy", "Bewildered", "Think", "Baby You're Right "," I Do not Mind "," This Old Heart "," Shout and Shimmy ", and" Oh Baby Do not You Weep ". As with some recordings, Famous Flames are often not credited on the album cover although it is quite ironic on the recordings where Brown appears himself, the group is credited, leaving fans to mistakenly believe that the Famous Flames is actually a Brown backing band, instead of the actual singing group. The group continued to perform together until 1968 when they left the monetary issue. The final recording related to the Flames to be released is a pre-funk soul hit, "Licking Stick - Licking Stick", which Byrd donated vocals without the other members, who had gone before Byrd did that summer.
Career solo and continuing work with Brown
After two more years, Byrd reunited with Brown in 1970. He was hired, on the spot and without training, Bootsy Collins, a Bootsy Brother, and their band to replace the former Brown band after they left it before the gig. After that performance, Byrd and Brown took the band to a studio session where they recorded a funk mani hit, "Wake Up (I Feel Like Being) a Sex Machine", which Brown and Byrd co-wrote and shared vocals on, even though the tape was released as a recording solo James Brown.
When The Famous Flames are still together, Byrd and Brown form a production company, Fair Deal, to distribute the recording of The Famous Flames - and Brown's own solo recordings - to the mainstream market after years only on the rhythm and blues circuit. This led to both a solo agreement signing Byrd and Brown with Smash Records. In 1964, Byrd recorded his first solo hit, "Baby, Baby, Baby" with Anna King. A year later he has hit R & amp; B with "We Are in Love", which reached # 14. Later in the late 1960s, when Byrd and Brown together began working under an unknown funk genre, Byrd got hit with "I Need Help (I Can not Do It Yourself) ", a refrain is then repeated. in a few hits then Brown.
In 1971, when Brown signed a contract with Polydor Records, he and Byrd formed the label People Records, and released some notes by other artists, including Byrd himself, who recorded a funk hit, "I Know You Got Soul". Byrd appeared on stage with Brown from the 1970s until leaving his band again in 1973 due to a combination of various issues, including an indelible composition on several hit Brown, Brown's problems with singer Vicki Anderson, whom Byrd eventually married and remained together until his death, start a family with Anderson. Although he remained in touch with Brown after this final split, this departure ended the 21-year-old professional association Byrd with Brown, now the nickname of "Godfather of Soul", after composing the soundtrack for the movie, Black Caesar. Without Byrd's help, however, Brown began to struggle with music production at People and immediately began to experience financial problems; Brown's record of success began to wane as other Brown bandmates went to get better chances.
In 1993, Byrd recorded a solo album, On the Move , on the German record label, Soulciety Records. After several live performances, Byrd decided to retire in 1996, though sometimes he occasionally reappeared with Brown's help: following parole from drug and weapons allegations in 1991, he hired Byrd to join him on stage to pay him. per-view 1992 concert. Byrd sometimes appears with Brown in several places. They will also collaborate on the song "Killing Is Out, School Is In" from Brown's last studio album, 2002's
In 2003, a few years before his death, Bobby, his wife Vicki, and Famous Flames Bobby Bennett and Lloyd Stallworth, sued James Brown and Universal Music vocalist for not paying royalties, stating that the money that belonged to them for a number of Famous Flames hits, and a hit Byrd "I Know You Got Soul", which was duplicated by many rappers, including Eric B. & amp; Rakim, sent by Universal to James Brown instead, is suspected of storing it. The lawsuit was dismissed because the restriction law had expired. However, rapper Jay-Z, who sampled Byrd's "I'm Not to Blame" for his recording, "U Do not Know", on his 2001 multi-millionth sales The Blueprint , paid Byrd 65% of the royalties for the song, allowing Byrd and his family to get a mortgage for their home, which is worth about $ 250,000.
Personal life
After parting from Brown in 1973, Byrd and Vicki Anderson, who left Brown band at the same time as Byrd, were married. Byrd has three children with his first wife Gail, in Toccoa, Georgia; two sons, Walda and Orrin Byrd, and one daughter, Ruthie Byrd. Lolita Freeman, and Dhevin Shellshear, came from another relationship. Byrd raises Anderson's daughter, Carleen, Bartlett Anderson's sons, James Byrd and Anthony Byrd, and shares a daughter, Keisha Byrd. The couple remained married throughout Byrd's lifetime. Although he had moved to Cincinnati after the Famous Fire was signed with the Federal/King, Byrd retained his residence in Georgia and after leaving Brown, settled in Loganville for the rest of his life.
Death
Bobby Byrd died on September 12, 2007, due to cancer; he is 73 years old.
Legacy
Many songs in hip-hop music have taken samples of Byrd-related songs such as "I Know You Got Soul", "Think (About It)", "Get Up (I Feel Like Being)", "The Power of the Soul" "Make it Funky" and "I'm Not Blaming". Byrd's music has a lasting effect on many soul artists, R & amp; B, and hip hop.
For many years after his departure from Brown, some revisionist histories have sometimes forgotten to mention the impact of Byrd in Brown's career even showing that Brown has started as a solo artist when the recording, "Please, Please, Please" was released in 1956. Actually, however, it actually recording by Famous Flames. That, in fact, Bobby Byrd and The Famous Flames who launched Brown's career, not the other way around. Indeed, the majority of Brown's early recordings between 1956 and 1962 were not solo recordings, but as members of the Famous Flames, which made his 1986 solo induction to Rock & The controversial Roll Hall of Fame, as the first official solo record is a cover of the standard R & amp; B, "Night Train" instrumental. Although the late 1961 recording, "Lost Someone", sung by Brown alone, the song is credited as a recording of Famous Flames and featuring Byrd and fellow Flames members Lloyd Stallworth as coauthor, and Byrd also plays organs in the recording.
In addition, claims made by inexperienced individuals such as pop music writers and critics that Famous Flames are "band" or backup musicians are also wrong. The famous Flames are a vocal group. Brown band support is a separate group known as James Brown Orchestra (later known as The J.B.s).
The early songs, most of which Byrd participated with the exception of "Try Me", featured Byrd and contributed heavily to building Brown's career before finally becoming a complete solo artist by releasing "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" in 1965. Although Brown asserting himself as a full-fledged leader, he was still only a member of the Flames until the group left him in 1968. In addition, it was Byrd who later saved Brown's career many times, beginning with him returning to the Famous Flames at Brown's request after the group's early breakup in the year 1957, helped him train the re-formed group, rejoined them at the time, and then recruited Bootsy and Phelps Collins to support Brown in 1970 and who co-produced the hit record "Sex Machine", then helped with other artists at People Records. At Famous Flames' Rock & amp; Page Roll Hall of Fame, Byrd is regarded as "one of the important additional figures in the career of a great artist in music history."
In October 2004, Bobby Byrd's "I Know You Got Soul" and "Hot Pants" were featured on Grand Theft Auto's soundtrack: San Andreas, playing Master Sounds 98.3 fictional radio station. In September 2005 the song "Try It Again" appeared on the Indigo Prophecy soundtrack. â €
Byrd is portrayed by actor Nelsan Ellis in the biopic James Brown 2014 Get on Top .
Induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and initial controversy
In 1986 Rock & amp; Hall of Fame Roll officials announced that James Brown would be included in the list of the first nine musicians inducted by the organization. Because of its contribution to the industry and its influence on the R & amp genre B, Soul, and Funk Music, it just fits that Brown will be part of this early group. However, James Brown did not meet the Hall of Fame criteria for induction at that time which required the artist to release their first single as a solo artist at least 25 years before induction. Brown's first solo release in 1965 was only 21 years earlier, although Brown had been active in the industry and released the song as part of The Famous Flames before 1965. For Brown to be inaugurated by the organization in 1986, the inclusion of members
Brown's inclusion as a solo artist without other Flames members was met with criticism but has not been changed to date. At the end of 2011, Rock & amp; The Roll Hall of Fame formed a special committee to discuss some of the pioneer groups that they felt were worthy of being sworn in, but were initially expelled by mistake, due to the impact of their lead singer, who was wrongly inducted as a solo artist. The decision of this committee led to the induction of The Famous Flames and its members. This is a movement of change that does not require nominations or voting, under the premise that they should be inaugurated with Brown in 1986, because, according to Rock Hall CEO Terry Stewart, Brown's first solo recordings missed the 25-year criteria for performing musicians. Byrd, Stallworth (c 2001), and Terry have long died at this point, and Bobby Bennett, the only surviving Flames member, received honor on behalf of the group in Cleveland on April 14, 2012. Less than a year after induction , Bennett himself died on January 18, 2013.
In 2015, Bobby Byrd was nominated for a second induction to Rock & amp; Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The J.B.'s, a group he found in 1970 to replace the original James Brown Band, who left Brown in 1970 (when the Famous Flames left him in 1968) due to a salary dispute.
Bobby Byrd has been recognized as one of the most important founders of Funk music, but without a mark.
References
External links
- Bobby Byrd, James Brown, and The Famous Flames from Last FM
- Bobby Byrd Discography The Times Obituary for Bobby Byrd
- Bobby Byrd Discography in MusicBrainz
- Bobby Byrd - The Bread Book (Hungarian)
- Speech Bobby Byrd from Rolling Stone .
- The Bobby Byrd page on Future Rock Legends
- The Famous Flames page at Future Rock Legends
- Bobby Byrd page on the "Soul Walking U.K."
- The Famous Flames Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction-inducted site 2012
- The Facebook Official Page The Famous Flames
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