JAMES BROWN – The Soul Man’s Hit ‘IT’S A MAN MAN’S WORLD’ Released 60 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
16 February 2026
The late explosive soul man James Brown (1933-2006) released one
of his biggest and best know hits with IT’S A MAN’S MAN WORLD
today 60 years ago, on 16 February 1961.
It was written by Brown and Betty Jean Newsome.
The single whent to No 8 in the US, and to No 13
in the UK.
Rolling Stone Magazine characterized the lyrics as “biblically chauvinistic“; attributing all the works of modern civilization — the car, the train, the boat, and the electric light — to the efforts of men, but claim that it all would “mean nothing without a woman or a girl”
