Cold Sweat
| "Cold Sweat – Part 1" | ||||
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| Single by James Brown | ||||
| from the album Cold Sweat | ||||
| B-side | "Cold Sweat – Part 2" | |||
| Released | July 1967 | |||
| Recorded | May 1967, King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio | |||
| Genre | Funk | |||
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| Label | King 6110 | |||
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| Producer(s) | James Brown | |||
| James Brown charting singles chronology | ||||
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| "Cold Sweat Part 1" on YouTube | ||||
"Cold Sweat" is a song performed by James Brown and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis. Brown recorded it in May 1967. An edited version of "Cold Sweat" released as a two-part single on King Records was a No. 1 R&B hit, and reached number seven on the Pop Singles chart. The complete recording, more than seven minutes long, was included on an album of the same name.
Brown's lyrics describe how his woman's affections make him "break out in a cold sweat."
In 2016 James Brown's "Cold Sweat-Part 1" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.