James Brown - Please, Please, Please

WAXTIME

£14.38
~~£15.53~~

Cat. no: 772331
Format: LP
Barcode: 8435723700036
Release Date: 31 Mar 2023
Genre: Soul/R&B

Limited edition 180g vinyl - audiophile pressing, the complete album + 1 bonus track

Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of his single 'Try Me', James Brown's debut LP Please,Please, Pleaseis 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 Originally released as 'James Brown and His Famous Flames'. Evenly split between ballads and up- tempo shouters, the songs here all fall into the same sax-driven, gospel-infuenced style that you could hear in any Southern chicken shack or nightclub during the late 1950s.James Brown: lead vocals plus:The Famous Flames: Kenny Burrell, Nafoyd 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).Produced by Ralph Bass, Andy Gibson.Recorded at King Studios, Cincinnati and Beltone Studios, New York City (NY) between 1956 and 1958.

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 / This Old Heart