Please Please Please (album)

Please Please Please
Please Please Please
Studio album by James Brown and the Famous Flames
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
Singles from Please Please Please
	"Please, Please, Please"; Released: March 1956; "Try Me"; Released: October 1958;

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),^[1] along with all the non-charting singles and b-sides he had recorded up to the time of the album's release.^[2] 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]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]
Martin C. Strong	6/10^[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written 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, 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

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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
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

^ White, Cliff (1991). "James Brown Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
^ ^a ^b Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 2002. ISBN 9780857125958.
^ 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.
^ Strong, M.C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). New York: Canongate. p. 199.

[1] White, Cliff (1991). "James Brown Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.

[AllM-2] Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.

[3] Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 2002. ISBN 9780857125958.

[Cross-4] 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.

[5] Strong, M.C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). New York: Canongate. p. 199.

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