Recorded *:
June 12, 1969 – July 23, 1970

Released: August 1970

* Supposedly recorded live, but audience effects are actually dubbed in.

Rating:

Genre: R&B

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Album Tracks:

1. Get Up, I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine
2. Brother Rapp, Pts. 1 & 2
3. Medley: Bewildered
4. I Got the Feelin’
5. Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
6. I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself)
7. Licking Stick, Licking Stick
8. Lowdown Popcorn
9. Spinning Wheel
10. If I Ruled the World
11. There Was a Time
12. It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
13. Please, Please, Please
14. I Can’t Stand Myself When You Touch Me
15. Mother Popcorn

Sales (in millions):

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Peak:

29
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Singles/Hit Songs: *

• Please, Please, Please (4/7/56) #95 US, #5 RB
• Bewildered (2/27/61) #40 US, #8 RB
• It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World (4/30/66) #8 US, #13 UK, #1 RB
• I Can’t Stand Myself When You Touch Me (12/9/67) #28 US, #4 RB
• There Was a Time (1/20/68) #36 US
• I Got the Feelin’ (3/16/68) #6 US, #1 RB
• Licking Stick (5/25/68) #14 US, #2 RB
• Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (1/25/69) #15 US, #1 RB
• I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (4/5/69) #20 US, #3 RB
• Mother Popcorn (6/14/69) #11 US, #1 RB
• Lowdown Popcorn (8/23/69) #41 US, #16 RB
• Brother Rapp (5/2/70) #32 US, #2 RB
• Get Up, I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine (7/18/70) #15 US, #32 UK, #2 RB
• Spinning Wheel (3/6/71) #90 US

Awards:

• ^BL Blender Magazine’s 100 Greatest American Albums (10/08)
• ^SH Steve Huey, All Music Guide