Please Please Please (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Please, Please, Please
Type = studio
Artist = James Brown and His Famous Flames


Released = 1959
Recorded = February 24, 1956-September 18, 1958
Genre = R&B
Length = 40:36
Label = King
610
Producer = Ralph Bass
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:fifwxqq5ldde link]
*iTunes (favorable) Rating|5|5 [cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =iTunes Review - Please Please Please | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher =Apple Inc. | date = | url = | doi = | id = | accessdate = ]
Last album =
This album = "Please, Please, Please"
(1959)
Next album = "Try Me"
(1959)
Misc =

"Please Please Please" is the 1959 debut album by James Brown and the Famous Flames. It includes Brown'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.

Quote box
quote="...a rare glimpse at the birth of the Godfather."
source=-excerpt from iTunes Review

Track listing

All tracks composed by James Brown; except where indicated

ide One

# "Please, Please, Please" (Brown, John Terry) - 2:47
# "Chonnie-On-Chon" (Brown, Bobby Byrd) - 2:13
# "Hold My Baby's Hand" (Brown, Trevor Smith) - 2:14
# "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On" (Knox) - 2:35
# "Just Won't Do Right" - 2:37
# "Baby Cries Over the Ocean" - 2:38
# "I Don't Know" - 2:48
# "Tell Me What I Did Wrong" - 2:23

ide Two

# "Try Me" - 2:33
# "That Dood It" (Rudy Toombs) - 2:29
# "Begging, Begging" (Rudy Toombs) - 2:54
# "I Walked Alone" - 2:43
# "No, No, No, No" - 2:15
# "That's When I Lost My Heart" - 2:52
# "Let's Make It" - 2:27
# "Love or a Game" - 2:15

Personnel

James Brown - lead vocals -with "The Famous Flames" (original lineup):
*Bobby Byrd - background vocals
*Johnny Terry - background vocals
*Sylvester Keels - background vocals
*Bill Hollings - background vocals
*Louis Madison - background vocals
*Nafloyd Scott - guitar

Musicians:

*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
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*Eddie Freeman - guitar

References

*cite book| title = Please Please Please album liner notes | publisher = Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.