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1958 studio album by James Brown and the Famous Flames
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 .
All tracks are written by James Brown; except where indicated
Side one Title Writer(s) 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 Title Writer(s) 1. "Try Me " 2:33 2. "That Dood It" Rudy Toombs , Rose Marie McCoy 2:29 3. "Begging, Begging" Julius Dixson , Rudy Toombs2:54 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
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
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