GRACELAND TREATMENT FOR THE GODFATHER OF SOUL?

James Brown always admired Elvis Presley.

And if members of Brown's family have their way, the late Godfather of Soul's Beech Island, S.C., home will become a museum a la the King of Rock 'n' Roll's Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn.

This may take awhile, though, and for multiple reasons -- among them that Brown's will makes no mention of a museum, according to a story by Otis R. Taylor Jr. that ran last week in The Herald, a South Carolina newspaper.

But if it does become a museum, there apparently is plenty to see, says author Marc Eliot, who spent time at Brown's 62-acre estate while working on I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul.

Eliot was quoted in the aforementioned Taylor story that at Brown's house, "the overall effect was not unlike going to Caesar's Palace" in Las Vegas.

"Not to be disparaging," he added, "but he had a very gaudy rock 'n' roll look."

Anyone who's been to Graceland, particularly the legendary Jungle Room, knows that Presley's place had its gaudiness, too. And gaudy does make for a really good museum.