George and James is an album by The Residents, released in 1984. It was subtitled American Composer Series - Volume 1. The American Composer Series was originally supposed to be an ongoing project lasting from 1984 until 2000 that profiled a number of different artists. The idea was to "make music about music." Ultimately only two full albums surfaced (Stars and Hank Forever is the other one), although a few tracks from the planned album profiling Sun Ra and Ray Charles have surfaced.
This particular offer includes a side of reworked George Gershwin songs, while side two has the same songs in the same order as side one of James Brown's classic Live at the Apollo.
Unenthusiastic reviews, the transition from vinyl to CD (meaning that the concept of a split album would be spoiled) and re-negotiation of the songwriting fees (making the project financially impossible) scuppered the series.
Track listing
Bonus Track on British Cassette Release
- "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
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Studio albums | |
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Soundtracks | |
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Singles and EPs | |
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Live albums | |
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Compilations |
- The Residents Radio Special
- Nibbles
- Residue of The Residents
- Ralph Before '84: Volume I
- PAL TV LP
- Memorial Hits
- Hell!
- Heaven?
- Stranger Than Supper
- Liver Music
- Daydream B-Liver
- Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses
- Residue Deux
- 25 Years of Eyeball Excellence
- Land of Mystery
- Refused
- Dot.Com
- Diskomo 2000
- Petting Zoo
- Best Left Unspoken... Vol. 1
- Best Left Unspoken... Vol. 2
- Best Left Unspoken... Vol. 3
- Smell My Picture
- Ten Little Piggies
- Arkansas
- Ozan
- Ozark
- ERA B4-74
- The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss
- Ultimate Box Set
- 80 Aching Orphans
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Video and film |
- Mole Show/Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?
- Video Voodoo Volume I
- The Eyes Scream
- Twenty Twisted Questions
- Icky Flix
- Eskimo
- Live! ...On The Outskirts
- Demons Dance Alone DVD
- Commercial DVD
- Wormwood
- Timmy (video series)
- Icky Flix Live
- Is Anybody Out There?
- Randy's Ghost Stories
- Talking Light: Bimbo's
- Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents
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CD-ROM | |
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Remix albums |
- Our Finest Flowers
- Poor Kaw-Liga's Pain
- Diskomo 2000
- WB: RMX
- The King & Eye RMX
- Night of the Hunters
- Animal Lover Instrumental
- RMX
- Tabasco: Tweedles Instrumental
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