This song. Also legend. Recorded in 1966, it is one of the most openly chauvinistic songs since Ludvig van Beethoven's "I Got My Bitches on Lock." It was co-written by this woman, who dated Brown in the '60s and inserted lines about how all the many achievements of man would be "nothing without a woman or a girl." (But, you know, men did pretty much invent everything worthwhile.) It's the only song she's attributed with as a writer, but it's at #123 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Not a bad legacy.
This version was recorded in 1981, at a concert that apparently also included "the hardest-working woman in show business," Janis Joplin. (Don't get too excited -- she doesn't make an appearance in this video. Gotta love the pairing though.) Enjoy.
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