James Brown - Please, Please, Please [180G/ Import/ Bonus Track]

Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of "Try Me", James Brown's debut LP Please, Please, Please is 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 was released as "James Brown and His Famous Flames".

Evenly split between ballads (such as the raw, gospel-inflected title track and "That's When I Lost My Heart") and up-tempo shouters ("I Don't Know" and "Baby Cries Over the Ocean"), the songs here all fall into the same sax-driven, gospel-influenced style that you could hear in any Southern chicken shack or nightclub during the late 1950s. Other highlights include the Wynonie Harris-like, jump-blues romp, "Chonnie-On-Chon," and "Let's Make It". 180-gram Virgin Vinyl Limited Edition. The Complete Album + 1 Bonus Track.

A1 Please, Please, Please
A2 Chonnie-On-Chon
A3 Hold My Baby's Hand
A4 I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
A5 Just Won't Do Right
A6 Baby Cries Over The Ocean
A7 I Don't Know
A8 Tell Me What I Did Wrong

B1 Try Me
B2 That Dood It
B3 Begging, Begging
B4 I Walked Alone
B5 No, No, No, No
B6 That's When I Lost My Heart
B7 Let's Make It
B8 Love Or A Game
B9 This Old Heart*

* Bonus Track