Try Me (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Try Me


Caption =
Artist = James Brown and The Famous Flames
from Album = Please Please Please
A-side =
B-side = "Tell Me What I Did Wrong"
Released = October 1958
Format = 7" (mono)
Recorded = September 18, 1958, at Beltone Studios, New York, NY
Genre = R&B/Soul
Length = 2:30
Label = Federal
12337
Writer = James Brown
Producer = Andy Gibson
Certification =
Chart position =
* #1 R&B
* #48 Pop
Last single ="Begging Begging"
(1958)
This single ="Try Me"
(1958)
Next single ="I Want You So Bad"
(1959)
Misc =

:"For other uses, see Try Me"Try Me" is a song written and performed by James Brown. He recorded it with his singing group The Famous Flames in 1958. A plaintive ballad, it was the group's second R&B hit (following 1956's "Please, Please, Please"), and early in 1959 it became their first song to reach #1 on the R&B chart. Its success is credited with saving Brown's recording career after a string of nine non-charting singles. He described the song as "really a pop tune. I had heard 'Raindrops' by Dee Clark and 'For Your Precious Love' by Jerry Butler, so I wrote my song to fit between them." [Brown, James, with Bruce Tucker. "James Brown: The Godfather of Soul" (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company,1986), 91.]

"Try Me" was included on the albums "Please Please Please" and "Try Me".

Personnel

* James Brown - lead vocal

"and The Famous Flames:"
* Johnny Terry - vocals
* Bill Hollings - vocals
* J.W. Archer - vocals
* Louis Madison - vocals

"plus:"
* George Dorsey - alto saxophone
* Clifford Scott - tenor saxophone
* Ernie Hayes - piano
* Kenny Burrell - guitar
* Carl Pruitt - bass
* David "Panama" Francis - drums

Other versions

"Try Me" is the second song Brown performs on "Live at the Apollo".

Brown recorded a version of "Try Me" with strings for his 1963 album "Prisoner of Love".

Brown recorded an instrumental version of "Try Me" for the Smash label in 1965 which charted #34 R&B and #63 Pop in the U.S. It marked one of the few times in American music history that a song became a hit on two separate occasions in vocal and instrumental form by the same artist.

Last performance

One of the last performances of the song in concert was in late 2006 with the guest girl group, Sugababes. Sugababes were among the last to perform with Brown before his death.Fact|date=July 2007

Citations

References

* Leeds, Alan M., and Harry Weinger (1991). Star Time: Song by Song. In "Star Time" (pp. 46-53) [CD liner notes] . London: Polydor Records.
* White, Cliff (1991). Discography. In "Star Time" (pp. 54-59) [CD liner notes] . London: Polydor Records.

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:kxfixxlaldae Song Review] from Allmusic
* [http://www.hotlyrics.net/lyrics/J/James_Brown/Try_Me.html Lyrics]