Written by: Brown, Betty Jean Newsome
Produced by: Brown
Released: April '66 on King
Charts: 9 weeks
Top spot: No. 8
Brown had been tinkering with the building blocks to this song for years -- his singer Tammy Montgomery (later Tammi Terrell) had recorded the sound-alike "I Cried" in 1963 -- but Brown's recording of "Man's World" (a play on the 1963 comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) was a stunningly dramatic record. Amid swooping strings, Brown's abject singing makes the almost biblically chauvinistic lyrics sound genuinely humane.
Appears on: 50th Anniversary Collection (UTV/Polydor)