Created by Dimitris Tsaganos - Artists: Lusiano Pavarotti & James Brown - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" is a song by James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome. Brown recorded it on February 16, 1966 in a New York studio and released it as a single later that year. It reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its title is a pun on the 1963 comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The song's lyrics, which Rolling Stone characterized as "almost biblically chauvinistic",attribute all the works of modern civilization (the car, the train, the electric light) to the efforts of men, but claim that it all would "mean nothing without a woman or a girl." Brown's co-writer and onetime girlfriend, Betty Jean Newsome, wrote the lyrics based on her own observations of the relations between the sexes. In later years, Newsome would claim that Brown didn't write any part of the song and argued in court that Brown sometimes forgot to pay her royalties. The composition of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" developed over a period of several years. Tammy Montgomery, better known as Tammi Terrell, recorded "I Cried", a Brown-penned song based on the same chord changes, in 1963. Brown himself recorded a demo version of the song, provisionally entitled "It's a Man's World", in 1964. This version later appeared on the CD compilations The CD of JB and Star Time. The released version of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" was recorded quickly, in only two takes, with a studio ensemble that included members of Brown's touring band and a string section arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe. A female chorus was involved in the recording sessions, but their parts were edited out of the song's final master. "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" became a staple of Brown's live shows for the rest of his career. Its slow, simmering groove and declamatory vocal line made it suitable for long, open-ended performances incorporating spoken ruminations on love and loss and sometimes interpolations from other songs. It appears on almost all of Brown's live albums starting with 1967's Live at the Garden. Brown also recorded a big band jazz arrangement of the song with the Louie Bellson Orchestra for his 1970 album Soul on Top. In 2004, "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" was ranked number 123 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. __________________________________________________ This is a man's world, this is a man's world but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl You see, man made the cars to take us over the road Man made the trains to carry heavy loads Man made electric light to take us out of the dark and man made the boat for the water, like my Bible says Noah made the ark This is a man's world but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl l`uomo rincorre il potere ma lui non sa che il grande limiti ad essere come si parrà nel palmo stringe un`idea che non vive che nella sua fantasia volle se non si accorde che poi nulla ha più senso te si vive solo per sè Man, thinks about a little bitty baby girl and a baby boy Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys and after man made other things he can Man makes lira, pesos, dollars, rupees to buy for every good woman from every man Nulla ha più senso se si vive solo per sè solo per sè He's lost in the wilderness, he's lost in bitterness Se non si accorde che poi nulla ha più senso se si vive solo per sè solo per sè...... This is a man's world...