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Please Please Please (album)

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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
Length40:36
LabelKing
ProducerRalph 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 was released in December 1958 by King Records and includes the group's first two hit singles, the title track and "Try Me" (R&B #1, Pop #48),[1] along with all the non-charting singles and B-sides they had recorded up to that time.[2] 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[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Martin C. Strong6/10[5]

Track listing

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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

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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
  • 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

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  1. ^ White, Cliff (1991). "James Brown Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
  2. ^ a b Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 2002. ISBN 9780857125958.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Strong, M.C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). New York: Canongate. p. 199.
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