Please Please Please (album)

Please Please Please
Studio album by James Brown and the Famous Flames
Released	December 1958 (1958-12)
Recorded	February 4, 1956 – September 18, 1958 (1956-02-04 – 1958-09-18) [1]
Studio	King (Cincinnati, Ohio) [1] Beltone (New York City) [1]
Genre	R&B soul
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 was released in December 1958 by King Records and includes the group's first two hit singles, the title track and "Try Me" (R&B No. 1, Pop No. 48), ^[2] along with all the non-charting singles and B-sides they had recorded up to that time. ^[3] 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	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]
Martin C. Strong	6/10 [6]

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

1. Leeds, Alan (April 2006). The Singles, Volume 1: 1956–1960 (published September 1, 2006). pp. 12–13.
2. White, Cliff (1991). "James Brown Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
3. Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
4. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 2002. ISBN   9780857125958.
5. 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.
6. Strong, M.C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). New York: Canongate. p. 199.