| For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 1) | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | James Brown |
| Album: | Take a Look at Those Cakes |
| B-Side: | For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes (Part 2) |
| Genre: | Funk |
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| Label: | Polydor 14522 |
| Producer: | James Brown |
| Chronology: | James Brown charting |
| Prev Title: | The Spank |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | It's Too Funky in Here |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is a song written and performed by James Brown. Released as an edited two-part single in 1978, it charted #52 R&B in 1979.[1] [2] A full-length version appears on the album Take a Look at Those Cakes. Brown talks loudly and clearly in rhyme with only brief singing involved, this track being in part a precursor to the hip hop style which was yet to mount on record in a few years time. Robert Christgau described the song as "a great throwaway--an eleven-minute rumination on ass-watching, including genuinely tasteless suggestions that Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder join the fun."[3]