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"For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is a song written and performed by James Brown. Released as an edited two-part single in 1978, it charted #52 R&B in 1979. A full-length version appears on the album Take a Look at Those Cakes. Brown talks loudly and clearly in rhyme with only brief singing involved, this track being in part a precursor to the hip hop style which was yet to mount on record in a few years time. Robert Christgau described the song as "a great throwaway--an eleven-minute rumination on ass-watching, including genuinely tasteless suggestions that Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder join the fun."

References

1. "Take a Look at Those Cakes - James Brown". AllMusic. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
2. White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) . New York: PolyGram Records.
3. "CG: Artist 1793". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2016-10-13.

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