Please Please Please (album)
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Please Please Please | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | December 1958 | |||
Recorded | February 24, 1956 – September 18, 1958 | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues soul | |||
Length | 40:36 | |||
Label | King | |||
Producer | Ralph Bass | |||
James Brown and the Famous Flames chronology | ||||
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Singles from Please Please Please | ||||
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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.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [2] |
Track listing
All tracks are written by James Brown; except where indicated
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Please, Please, Please" | Brown, John Terry | 2:47 |
2. | "Chonnie-On-Chon" | Brown, Bobby Byrd, Nafloyd Scott, Wilbert Smith | 2:13 |
3. | "Hold My Baby's Hand" | Brown, Trevor Smith | 2:14 |
4. | "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On" | Nashpendle Knox, Nafloyd Scott | 2:35 |
5. | "Just Won't Do Right" | 2:37 | |
6. | "Baby Cries Over the Ocean" | 2:38 | |
7. | "I Don't Know" | Brown, John Terry | 2:48 |
8. | "Tell Me What I Did Wrong" | 2:23 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Try Me" | 2:33 | |
2. | "That Dood It" | Rudy Toombs, Rose Marie McCoy | 2:29 |
3. | "Begging, Begging" | Julius Dixson, Rudy Toombs | 2:54 |
4. | "I Walked Alone" | Nashpendle Knox, Nafloyd Scott | 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 – 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
- 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
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
- ^ 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.
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