Please Please Please (album)

1958 studio album by James Brown and the Famous Flames From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 No. 1, Pop No. 48),[2] along with all the non-charting singles and B-sides they had recorded up to that time.[3] The album was reissued in 2003 by Polydor on a Japanese 24-bit remastered import CD packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

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ReleasedDecember 1958 (1958-12)
RecordedFebruary 4, 1956 – September 18, 1958 (1956-02-04 – 1958-09-18)[1]
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Please Please Please
Studio album by
James Brown and the Famous Flames
ReleasedDecember 1958 (1958-12)
RecordedFebruary 4, 1956 – September 18, 1958 (1956-02-04 – 1958-09-18)[1]
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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: February 1956
  2. "I Don't Know"
    Released: June 1956
  3. "No, No, No, No"
    Released: August 1956
  4. "Just Won't Do Right"
    Released: January 1957
  5. "That Dood It"
    Released: November 1957
  6. "Begging, Begging"
    Released: February 1958
  7. "Try Me"
    Released: October 1958
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Track listing

All tracks are written by James Brown; except where indicated.

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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
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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
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Personnel

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The Famous Flames
  • Bobby Byrd – backing vocals, piano
  • Johnny Terry – backing vocals
  • Sylvester Keels – backing vocals
  • Nashpendle Knox – backing vocals
  • Bill Hollings – backing vocals
  • J.W. Archer – backing vocals
  • Louis Madison – backing vocals, piano
  • Nafloyd Scott – guitar
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