James Brown's first few albums featured white people on the cover

[L.Kizzle]

1958 Please Please Please
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Please_Please_Please_album_cover.jpg

"At least she bendin' over on the Please record."

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1959 Try Me
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/James_Brown_Try_Me.jpg

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1960 Think
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/James_Brown_Think.jpg

"The baby from the Nevermind album!"

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1961 He sneaked one in, called The Amazing James Brown in 1961, guess the caught wind of it because two more non JB pictured covers followed.
http://images.universalmusicenterprises.com/images/local/400/4d534865-4d44-4cb3-9f18-2965a601c568.jpg

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1961 James Brown Presents His Band/Night Train
http://k10.kn3.net/5DCBBD3C0.jpg

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1962 Shout & Shimmy
http://www.vinylbeat.com/images/gallery/JukeboxEPs/6A.JamesBrown-ShoutNShimmy.jpg

[warriorfan]

was a great marketing strategy for the time

[Bourne]

who gives a f

[John Tesh]

was a great marketing strategy for the time

This.

[32jazz]

was a great marketing strategy for the time

The same reason the term "Rock & Roll" was used to refer to the new form of "R & B" / Jump Blues music in the 1950's.

Today ,but even moreso then "R&B" may as well been called 'n-word' music so people like Alan Freed(who loved "R&B"/Jump Blues) used the terms ("rock" & "roll") which had been used in Black music for decades as a euphemism for sex.

"Rock & Roll" was simply a genre of R&B/Blues or Jump Blues.


R&B was once called Race records & all Black artist were lumped together despite their music being different:

Mahalia Jackson(gospel), Duke Ellington(Jazz), Leadbelly(Folk), Muddy Waters(Blues).etc..... Were all "race" artist at one time.

"R&B" was simply a 'progressive title for 'race records'(Black music).

[Siemens]

Seems like good marketing to me.

[L.Kizzle]

Seems like good marketing to me.
I don't think it was for marketing purposes.