James Brown performs "Prisoner of Love" to a live audience on the TAMI Show.

James Brown performs "Prisoner of Love" to a live audience on the TAMI Show.

James Brown was influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles and began to perform pop standards. "Prisoner of Love" was his first Top 20 single.

The TAMI Show is a 1964 concert that included performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. TAMI stood for both "Teenage Awards Music International" and "Teen Age Music International". The concert was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on October 28 and 29, 1964. Free tickets were distributed to local high school students. The best footage from each of the two concert dates was edited into the film, which was released on December 29, 1964. The TAMI Show is particularly well known for James Brown's performance featuring his legendary dance moves and explosive energy.

Video transcript:

Alone from night to night you'll find me. Too weak to break the chains that bind me. I need no shackles to remind me. I'm just a prisoner, don't let me be a prisoner. For one command I stand and wait now. From one who's master of my fate now. I can't escape for it's too late now. I'm just a prisoner, don't let me be a prisoner. What's the good of my caring if someone is sharing those arms but not with me. Although she has another and I can't have another for I, I'm not free. She's in my dreams, awake or sleeping. Upon my knees to her, I'm creeping. My very life, my life is in her keeping. I'm just a prisoner, don't let me be a prisoner. (Prisoner of love). You made me a prisoner. (Prisoner of love). And you made me love you. (Prisoner of love). Take your shackles of love and go away. (Prisoner of love). 'Cause I love you so much now. You, you, you. You made me a prisoner.

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