Please Please Please is the debut studio album of The Famous Flames under the billing "James Brown and The 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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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [2] |
| iTunes Store | (favorable)[3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
Track listing[edit][]
All songs written and composed by James Brown; except where indicated.
| Side one | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Please, Please, Please" | Brown, John Terry | 2:47 | |||||||
| 2. | "Chonnie-On-Chon" | Brown, Bobby Byrd | 2:13 | |||||||
| 3. | "Hold My Baby's Hand" | Brown, Trevor Smith | 2:14 | |||||||
| 4. | "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On" | Knox | 2:35 | |||||||
| 5. | "Just Won't Do Right" | 2:37 | ||||||||
| 6. | "Baby Cries Over the Ocean" | 2:38 | ||||||||
| 7. | "I Don't Know" | 2:48 | ||||||||
| 8. | "Tell Me What I Did Wrong" | 2:23 | ||||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Try Me" | 2:33 | ||||||||
| 2. | "That Dood It" | Rudy Toombs | 2:29 | |||||||
| 3. | "Begging, Begging" | Julius Dixson and Rudy Toombs | 2:54 | |||||||
| 4. | "I Walked Alone" | 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[edit][]
...a rare glimpse at the birth of the Godfather.
excerpt from iTunes Review[3];Musicians
- James Brown - lead vocals
- The Famous Flames:
- Bobby Byrd - background vocals
- 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