Please Please Please is the debut studio album

Studio album

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 of American R&B and soul

Soul music

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 singer James Brown

James Brown

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 and his backing vocal group, the Famous Flames

The Famous Flames

The Famous Flames was an R&B vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd that recorded and performed with James Brown during the early years of his career...

. It includes Brown's first two hit singles

Single (music)

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, the title track and "Try Me

Try Me (song)

"Try Me" is a song written and performed by James Brown. He recorded it with his singing group The Famous Flames in 1958. A plaintive ballad, it was the group's second R&B hit , and early in 1959 it became their first song to reach #1 on the R&B chart and was also the first time the group hit the...

" (R&B #1, Pop #48), along with all the non-charting singles and b-sides

B-Sides

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 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.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

• James Brown - lead vocals

• The Famous Flames:
  • Bobby Byrd
    Bobby Byrd
    Bobby Byrd born Robert Howard Byrd was an American funk/soul/R&B/gospel musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Toccoa, Georgia, and is a 1998 winner of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's prestigious Pioneer Award...
    
     - 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
  Ernie Hayes
  Ernest George Hayes MBE was a cricketer who played for Surrey, Leicestershire and England....
  
  - 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