James Brown

• LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPs

• 180 gr. VINYL–AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

• The Complete Album + 1 bonus

Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of “Try Me”, James Brown's debut LP Please, Please, Please is a collection of 16 of his A- and B-sides recorded for the Federal label between 1956 and 1958.

It was also the debut studio album for the Famous Flames, and was released as "James Brown and His Famous Flames". Evenly split between ballads (such as the raw, gospel inflected title track and “That’s When I Lost My Heart”) and uptempo shouters (“I Don’t Know” and “Baby Cries Over the Ocean”), the songs here all fall into the samesax-driven, gospel-influenced style that you could hear in any Southern chicken shack or nightclub during the late 1950s. Other highlights include the Wynonie Harris-like, jump-blues romp, “Chonnie-On-Chon,” and “Let’s Make It”.

PERSONNEL:

• JAMES BROWN: lead vocals, plus:

• THE FAMOUS FLAMES: Kenny Burrell, Nafloyd Scott, John Faire, Eddie Freeman (guitar), Clarence Mack, Edwyn Conley, Carl Pruitt (bass), Alvin “Fats” Gonder, Ernie Hayes (piano), Edison Gore, Reginald Hall, “Panama” Francis (drums), Wilbert “Lee Diamond” Smith, Ray Felder, Cleveland Lowe, Clifford Scott (tenor saxophone), George Dorsey, John B. Brown (alto saxophone), Bobby Byrd, Johnny Terry, Sylvester Keels, Nashpendle Knox, Bill Hollings, J.W. Archer, Louis Madison (background vocals).

Recorded at King Studios, Cincinnati (Ohio) and Beltone Studios, New York City (NY) between February 4, 1956 and September 18, 1958.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
• A2. CHONNIE-ON-CHON
• A3. HOLD MY BABY’S HAND
• A4. I FEEL THAT OLD FEELING COMING ON
• A5. JUST WON’T DO RIGHT
• A6. BABY CRIES OVER THE OCEAN
• A7. I DON’T KNOW
• A8. TELL ME WHAT I DID WRONG

• SIDE B
• B1. TRY ME
• B2. THAT DOOD IT
• B3. BEGGING, BEGGING
• B4. I WALKED ALONE
• B5. NO, NO, NO, NO
• B6. THAT’S WHEN I LOST MY HEART
• B7. LET’S MAKE IT
• B8. LOVE OR A GAME
• B9. THIS OLD HEART