James Brown And His Famous Flames – Try Me! (1LP & 1CD)
RARITY - SEALED
COMPILATION
James Brown – vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring James Brown]
Written by James Brown
1 LP & 1 CD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Label : Doxy
Original Label : King
Originally released in 1959
Reissued in 2011
Tracks:
Vinyl - Side A
- Try Me
- There Must Be A Reason
- Strange Things Happen
- Messing With The Blues
- Why Do You Do Me?
- I've Got To Cry
- Fine Old Foxy Self
- I Want You So Bad
Vinyl - Side B
- It Was You
- I've Got To Change
- Can't Be The Same
- It Hurts To Tell You
- I Won't Plead No More
- You're Mine, You're Mine
- Gonna Try
- Don't Let It Happen To Me
CD
- Try Me
- There Must Be A Reason
- Strange Things Happen
- Messing With The Blues
- Why Do You Do Me?
- I've Got To Cry
- Fine Old Foxy Self
- I Want You So Bad
- It Was You
- I've Got To Change
- Can't Be The Same
- It Hurts To Tell You
- I Won't Plead No More
- You're Mine, You're Mine
- Gonna Try
- Don't Let It Happen To Me
Reviews:
“When James Brown and His Famous Flames finally scored a second hit with their 11th single, "Try Me," King Records constructed this 16-track LP, including the hit along with both sides of three of its follow-ups, "I Want You So Bad"/"There Must Be a Reason," "I've Got to Change"/"It Hurts to Tell You," and "Got to Cry"/"It Was You"; the B-side of a fourth follow-up, "Don't Let It Happen to Me"; the 1957 single "Can't Be the Same"/"Gonna Try"; the 1957 B-sides "I Won't Plead No More" and "Messing With the Blues"; the B-side of Brown's first hit ("Please Please Please"), "Why Do You Do Me"; and three other stray tracks. The earliest work especially sounded more like that of a doo wop group rather than that of a gritty R&B solo singer. None of it measured up to "Try Me," but you could see what Brown had been aiming at, and if the set list comprised what were in effect James Brown's greatest flops, circa 1959, it demonstrated that he possessed as much promise as fervor.” AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.27 / 5