Please Please Please (album)

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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by James Brown; except where indicated.

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Please, Please, Please"	Brown, John Terry	2:47
2.	"Chonnie-On-Chon"	Brown, Bobby Byrd	2:13
3.	"Hold My Baby's Hand"	Brown, Trevor Smith	2:14
4.	"I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On"	Knox	2:35
5.	"Just Won't Do Right"		2:37
6.	"Baby Cries Over the Ocean"		2:38
7.	"I Don't Know"		2:48
8.	"Tell Me What I Did Wrong"		2:23

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Try Me"		2:33
2.	"That Dood It"	Rudy Toombs	2:29
3.	"Begging, Begging"	Julius Dixson and Rudy Toombs	2:54
4.	"I Walked Alone"		2:43
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 - background vocals
- Johnny Terry - background vocals
- Sylvester Keels - background vocals
- Bill Hollings - background vocals
- Louis Madison - background 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

↑ William Ruhlmann. "Please Please Please - James Brown,James Brown & His Famous Flames | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
↑ Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th revised ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved 21 September 2011.

James Brown albums

Studio albums	Please Please Please Try Me! Think! The Amazing James Brown Good, Good, Twistin' James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. Prisoner of Love Showtime Grits & Soul Out of Sight Papa's Got a Brand New Bag James Brown Plays James Brown Today & Yesterday I Got You (I Feel Good) Mighty Instrumentals James Brown Plays New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) It's a Man's Man's Man's World James Brown Sings Christmas Songs Handful of Soul James Brown Sings Raw Soul James Brown Plays the Real Thing Cold Sweat I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me I Got the Feelin' James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things A Soulful Christmas Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud Gettin' Down to It The Popcorn It's a Mother Ain't It Funky Soul on Top It's a New Day – Let a Man Come In Hey America Super Bad Sho Is Funky Down Here Hot Pants There It Is Get on the Good Foot Black Caesar The Payback Hell Reality Sex Machine Today Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump Hot Get Up Offa That Thing Bodyheat Mutha's Nature Jam 1980's Take a Look at Those Cakes The Original Disco Man People Soul Syndrome Nonstop! Bring It On! Gravity I'm Real Love Over-Due Universal James I'm Back The Merry Christmas Album The Next Step

Live albums	Live at the Apollo Pure Dynamite! Live at the Royal The James Brown Show Live at the Garden Live at the Apollo, Volume II Sex Machine Revolution of the Mind: Recorded Live at the Apollo, Vol. III Hot on the One Live in New York Live at Chastain Park Soul Session Live Love Power Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971 Live at the Apollo 1995 Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68

Notable compilation albums	Solid Gold: 30 Golden Hits In the Jungle Groove Motherlode Star Time 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! Roots of a Revolution Foundations of Funk – A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969 Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang Make It Funky – The Big Payback: 1971-1975 The Singles, Volume One: The Federal Years: 1956–1960 The Singles, Volume Two: 1960–1963 The Singles, Volume Three: 1964–1965 The Singles, Volume Four: 1966–1967

Band members	Bobby Byrd Lyn Collins Phelps "Catfish" Collins William "Bootsy" Collins Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis Maceo Parker Melvin Parker St. Clair Pinckney John "Jabo" Starks Clyde Stubblefield Fred Wesley

Associated acts	The Famous Flames The J.B.'s

Related articles	Discography Record labels owned by James Brown "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" James Brown: Man to Man Live at the Boston Garden Future Shock Tomi Rae Hynie Get on Up

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