Please Please Please (album)

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 Rock'n'roll
Length	40:36
Label	King
Producer	Ralph Bass
James Brown and the Famous Flames chronology
Please Please Please (1958) Try Me! (1959)
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), 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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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 - background vocals, piano
  • 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