On May 3 — the day James Brown would have celebrated his 83rd birthday — we look at the origin of just one tool in this showman’s dazzling belt: the cape routine. Featured in the 1964 ...

His death was announced Wednesday by the James Brown estate ... Ray was part of Brown’s cape routine for 45 years, assisting him on the song “Please, Please, Please.” The Godfather of ...

The routine was captured on episodes of the ... “Some called him Cape-man because he put on the Cape for James Brown, but for me when a Man Don’t need his head Rubbed to activate Other ...

writing in his biography “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul” that it was the hardest he probably ever danced. It was also the first time he did his famous cape routine where he faked ...

In the film, which airs Monday night at 9, interviewee Questlove tries to analyze the James Brown Scream ... He borrowed that cape routine, Brown once told interviewee the Rev. Al Sharpton ...

Mr. Ray’s cape routine, which he started in 1962 ... leading the crowd in calling for “James Brown! James Brown! James Brown!” until the singer came bursting forth from the wings.

James Brown's Boston Garden concert ... Then, of course, there is the cape routine: overcome by the funk, Brown is draped and ushered offstage by concerned bandmates, only to break loose from ...

James Brown! James Brown!” The cape routine began innocently enough, with Mr. Ray draping a towel over Brown’s shoulders after a sizzling performance. With the applause building, Brown threw ...

Who takes charge during an onstage emotional breakdown when, for example, soul singer James Brown collapses in a cold sweat and needs his cape? Who picks up the blazer and brushes it off when life ...

He spent years draping the Godfather of Soul with decorative capes, but on Saturday, James Brown's daughter, Deanna Brown-Thomas, honored his longtime hype man by draping a cape over Danny Ray's ...

His death was announced Wednesday by the James Brown estate ... Ray was part of Brown’s cape routine for 45 years, assisting him on the song “Please, Please, Please.” The Godfather of ...