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For more than 45 years, he introduced and held the cape of the “hardest-working man in show business.”

Danny Ray, James Brown’s ‘Original Hype Man,’ Dies at 85 He opened thousands of concerts for the “Godfather of Soul,” and closed them by draping a sequined velvet over his body just before the encore. Danny Ray, right, with James Brown backstage at the Apollo Theater in Manhattan in 1964. His cape routine helped cement Mr. Brown’s image as the flamboyant “Godfather of Soul.”Credit...Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images Feb. 12, 2021 Danny Ray, who o...