Please Please Please (album)

Please Please Please
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1958
RecordedFebruary 24, 1956 – September 18, 1958
GenreRhythm and blues
soul
Length40:36
LabelKing
ProducerRalph Bass
James Brown and the Famous Flames chronology
Please Please Please
(1958)
Try Me!
(1959)
Singles from Please Please Please
  1. "Please, Please, Please"
    Released: March 1956
  2. "Try Me"
    Released: October 1958

Please Please Please is the debut studio album by the Famous Flames under the billing "James Brown and His Famous Flames", featuring the first album of recordings during Brown's long career. It includes the group's first two hit singles, the title track and "Try Me" (R&B #1, Pop #48), along with all the non-charting singles and b-sides 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.

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AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[2]
  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "James Brown: Please Please Please at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  2. ^ Cross, Charles R. (2004). "James Brown". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 108. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.