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Please Please Please
Studio album by
James Brown and the Famous Flames
ReleasedDecember 1958
RecordedFebruary 24, 1956 – September 18, 1958
Genre Rhythm and blues
soul
Length40:36
Label King
Producer Ralph Bass
James Brown and the Famous Flames chronology
Please Please Please
(1958) 		Try Me!
(1959)
Singles from Please Please Please
  1. " Please, Please, Please"
    Released: March 1956
  2. " Try Me"
    Released: October 1958

Please Please Please is the debut studio album by the Famous Flames under the billing " James Brown and His Famous Flames", featuring the first album of recordings during Brown's long career. It includes the group's first two hit singles, the title track and " Try Me" (R&B #1, Pop #48), along with all the non-charting singles and b-sides he had recorded up to the time of the album's release. The album was reissued in 2003 by Polydor on a Japanese 24-bit remastered import CD packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by James Brown; except where indicated

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1." Please, Please, Please"Brown, John Terry2:47
2."Chonnie-On-Chon"Brown, Bobby Byrd, Nafloyd Scott, Wilbert Smith2:13
3."Hold My Baby's Hand"Brown, Trevor Smith2:14
4."I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On"Nashpendle Knox, Nafloyd Scott2:35
5."Just Won't Do Right" 2:37
6."Baby Cries Over the Ocean" 2:38
7."I Don't Know"Brown, John Terry2:48
8."Tell Me What I Did Wrong" 2:23
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1." Try Me" 2:33
2."That Dood It" Rudy Toombs, Rose Marie McCoy2:29
3."Begging, Begging" Julius Dixson, Rudy Toombs2:54
4."I Walked Alone"Nashpendle Knox, Nafloyd Scott2:43
5."No, No, No, No" 2:15
6."That's When I Lost My Heart" 2:52
7."Let's Make It" 2:27
8."Love or a Game" 2:15

Personnel

Musicians
  • James Brown – lead vocals
The Famous Flames
    • Bobby Byrd – backing vocals, piano
    • Johnny Terry – backing vocals
    • Sylvester Keels – backing vocals
    • Bill Hollings – backing vocals
    • Louis Madison – backing vocals
    • Nafloyd Scott – guitar
Additional personnel
  • Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone
  • Kenny Burrell – guitar
  • Edwyn Conley – bass
  • George Dorsey – alto saxophone
  • John Faire – guitar
  • David "Panama" Francis – drums
  • Reginald Hall – drums
  • Ernie Hayes – piano
  • Clarence Mack – bass
  • Carl Pruitt – bass
  • Wilbert Smith – tenor saxophone
  • Ray Felder – tenor saxophone
  • Edison Gore – drums
  • Alvin "Fats" Gonder – piano
  • Eddie Freeman – guitar

References

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  2. ^ Cross, Charles R. (2004). "James Brown". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp.  108. ISBN  0-7432-0169-8.
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