James Brown And His Famous Flames – Please, Please, Please (CD, Japanese Edition)
James Brown – vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring James Brown]
The Famous Flames:
- Bobby Byrd – background vocals
- Johnny Terry – background vocals
- Sylvester Keels – background vocals
- Nash Knox – background vocals
- Nafloyd Scott – guitar
Wilbert "Lee Diamond" Smith – tenor saxophone
Ray Felder – tenor saxophone
Lucas "Fats" Gonder – piano
Clarence Mack – bass
Edison Gore – drums
Written by James Brown and Johnny Terry
1 CD, Paper Sleeve with OBI
Limited edition (5,000 copies)
Made in Japan
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : Polydor
Original Label : King Records
Originally released in 1958
Reissued in 2003
Tracks:
- Please, Please, Please
- Chonnie-On-Chon
- Hold My Baby's Hand
- I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
- Just Won't Do Right
- Baby Cries Over The Ocean
- I Don't Know
- Tell Me What I Did Wrong
- Try Me
- That Dood It
- Begging, Begging
- I Walked Alone
- No, No, No, No
- That's When I Lost My Heart
- Let's Make It
- Love Or A Game
Awards:
"Please, Please, Please" was ranked number 272 among the greatest singles ever made in Dave Marsh's 1989 book The Heart of Rock & Soul
In 2001, "Please, Please, Please" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
In 2011, "Please, Please, Please" was ranked No. 143 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
Reviews:
« James Brown and His Famous Flames scored an R&B Top Ten hit in 1956 with "Please, Please, Please," but Brown's next nine singles for Federal Records flopped. It was the next, "Try Me," his third single of 1958, that finally scored. That was when King Records (Federal's parent label) assembled this, Brown's debut album, out of some of those singles sessions. You can hear the sound of a group and its enthusiastic singer looking for a hit, sometimes in the rock & roll of "Chonnie-On-Chon" (1957) or the 1956 B-side "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On," sometimes by remaking "Please, Please, Please" under another name, such as "I Don't Know" (1956), sometimes by tackling Coasters-like novelty material such as "That Dood It" (1958), sometimes by aping the smooth Sam Cooke, as on the 1958 B-side "That's When I Lost My Heart," and once by rewriting "My Bonnie (Lies Over the Ocean)" as the 1958 B-side "Baby Cries over the Ocean." Only the two hits were really memorable, but the album presented the sound of a major star-to-be in search of his sound. » AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.19 / 5