I Don't Mind (James Brown song)

"I Don't Mind"
Single by James Brown and the Famous Flames
from the album The Amazing James Brown
B-side	"Love Don't Love Nobody"
Released	1961
Format	Seven-inch 45 rpm record
Genre	Rhythm and blues
Length	2:41
Label	King (no. 5466)
Writer(s)	James Brown
Producer(s)	Gene Redd

"I Don't Mind" is a rhythm and blues song written by James Brown and performed by Brown and the Famous Flames. Its unusual chord progression – in Brown's words, it "opens with a 13, goes down to a C9, then goes to a G7 and to the A7" – prompted objections during the recording session from producer Gene Redd, who considered it musically "wrong".^[1] Released as a single in 1961, it reached number four in the R&B and number 47 in the Pop Billboard charts.^[2] Brown and the Flames also performed it on their 1963 album Live at the Apollo.

Chart positions

Chart (1961)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard R&B	4
U.S. Billboard Pop	47

Cover versions

• The In Crowd with vocalist Keith West (1965 as the B-side of their 1965 single "Why Must They Criticise" (available on the Steve Howe CD Mothballs)
• MC5 (in 1965 as a demo)
• The McCoys (1965 debut album Hang on Sloopy)^[3]
• The Moody Blues (1965 debut album The Magnificent Moodies)
• The Who (1965 debut album My Generation)

References

1. Brown, James, and Bruce Tucker (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul, 121. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
2. White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
3. The McCoys, Hang on Sloopy Retrieved June 24, 2015