Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Content:  "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is a song written and recorded by James Brown. Released as a two-part single in 1965, it was Brown's first song to reach the Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten, peaking at number eight, and was a number-one R&B hit, topping the charts for eight weeks. It won Brown his first Grammy Award, for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording. Consolidating the rhythmic innovations of earlier James Brown recordings such as "I've Got Money" and "Out of Sight", "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is considered seminal in the emergence of funk music as a distinct style. As Brown sings the praises of an old man brave enough to get out on the dance floor of a nightclub ("brand new bag" meaning new 
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Content: An instrumental recorded by the band Pigbag, "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag", was a worldwide hit in 1981. ; In 1995 Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Allstarz project recorded "Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag)", which peaked at #6 in the UK Singles Chart. ; The Capitol Steps recorded the parody "Papa's Got A Brand New Baghdad" for their 2004 album of the same name. ; "Lil Poppa Got A Brand New Bag" by rapper Young Bleed released on January 20, 1998. 
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (album)
Content:  Papa's Got a Brand New Bag is a compilation album by American musician James Brown. It consists of songs taken from albums throughout his career with King Records. Also included are "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (previously released as a single) and "Have Mercy Baby" (first released on the compilation Good, Good, Twistin' and later as a single). The album was released in 1965, by King.
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Content:  "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse", an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was named for the song. The song's title was also played on for The Simpsons episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge". The 2013 musical Kinky Boots contains the line "Papa's got a brand new shoe" in the song "Everybody Say Yeah" (music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper). Towards the end of one of the mixes of Public Enemy's 1994 song "Give It Up", Flavor Flav is heard to say "Papa's got a brand new bag." The same line is also heard in the rap part of Color Me Badd's 1991 single "Color Me Badd" and Big Daddy Kane's 1989 song "Warm It Up, Kane". In 1990, the song was featured in The Wonder Years, Season 3 Episode 15, "The Tree House". Later it was featured in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire. A remix of the song was played in the official Season 6 trailer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019).
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Content:  taste, or way of doing something ), his band provides a horn-heavy backdrop with a prominent rhythm and an electric guitar riff for a hook. Both singer and musicians place overwhelming emphasis on the first beat of each measure ("on the One"). The song is Brown's first recording to feature Jimmy Nolen on guitar. The taped recording of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" was edited and sped up for its single release, increasing the tempo and raising the pitch by a half step. In 1991, the recording was released in unedited form at its original speed on the box set Star Time. The track includes lead-in studio chatter, with Brown throatily (and presciently) shouting "This is a hit!" just before the drum and horn intro.
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Content:  An instrumental version of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" was released as the B-side of Brown's 1965 single from Smash called "Try Me". He also recorded a big band jazz arrangement of the song with Louie Bellson's Orchestra for his 1970 album Soul on Top. Live performances of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" appear on the albums Hot on the One, Live in New York, Soul Session Live, Live at the Apollo 1995, and the 2009 Expanded Edition of Live at the Garden. It is also featured in medleys on Love Power Peace and Say It Live and Loud.
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Baghdad
Content:  Papa's Got a Brand New Baghdad is a 2004 album by the Capitol Steps.
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Baghdad
Content: 1) Green Green Grass at Home ; 2) Help Rwanda ; 3) Ain't No Surplus, Now It's Gone ; 4) Democratic Hit Parade ; 5) I Wish I Was on Oxycontin ; 6) Hillary's Way ; 7) Cameroon ; 8) Papa's Got a Brand New Baghdad ; 9) Spider Hole ; 10) I Want a Guy Just Like the Guy Who Married Dear Old Dad ; 11) Kobe Bryant Jewelers ; 12) Frogs at War ; 13) Goodbye, Uday, Qusay ; 14) Cows Gone Mad ; 15) SuperCaliforniaRecallFreakShowWasAtrocious ; 16) The Fondler ; 17) Lirty Dies 
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
Content:  "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" is a 1981 instrumental performed by the British dance-punk band Pigbag. The instrumental was written by Chris Hamlin and James Johnstone before Pigbag was formed and produced by Dave Hunt and Dick O'Dell. In the United States the instrumental was released as an import on the Rough Trade label, where it made it to number 56 on the US dance chart. A 1982 re-release of "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" went to number three in the United Kingdom. Several covers of the instrumental have been released, including popular versions by Perfecto Allstarz and Thunderpuss. The piece's title is a play on the James Brown song "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". Whilst the track is well known for its brass riff, the bassline of the track was also ranked by Stylus Magazine at number 40 in their 2005 list of the "Top 50 Basslines of All Time".
Title: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Content: In 1965, The Fabulous Echoes covered the song on their album Lovin' Feeling. ; In 1965, Buddy Guy played the song participating in the European tour American Folk Blues Festival. The song is not on the record but in the movie that was made of the tour. ; In 1965, The McCoys released a version of the song on their debut album, Hang on Sloopy. ; In 1968, Atco Records released a single by Otis Redding, from the posthumously released LP In Person at the Whisky a Go Go. ; In 1968, The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band released a version of the song on 

Question: who wrote papa got a brand new bag?
Answer: James Brown.