Billboard Top 40 Hits 1971: #171: ‘Make It Funky Part I’- James Brown. August 22, 1971.

• Single: ‘Make It Funky Part I’- James Brown
• Record Company- Polydor
• Genre: Funk-Soul
• Written by Charles Bobbit and James Brown
• Time: 3:15
• B-side: ‘Make It Funky Part II’-
• Album- Star Time
• Grade: B
• Peaked at #22 9 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

James Brown was born in 1933 in Barnwell, South Carolina but was raised in Augusta, Georgia. 1971 was another big year for Brown- he had 9 Hot 100 singles with 6 cracking the Top 40. He died in 2006 of heart failure at the age of 73.