Try Me (James Brown song)

"Try Me (I Need You)"
Single by James Brown and the Famous Flames
from the album Please Please Please/ Try Me!
B-side"Tell Me What I Did Wrong"
ReleasedOctober 1958 (1958-10)
RecordedSeptember 18, 1958
StudioBeltone Studios, New York City
GenreRhythm and blues
Length2:28
LabelFederal 12337
Songwriter(s)James Brown
Producer(s)Andy Gibson
James Brown charting singles chronology
"Please, Please, Please"
(1956)
"Try Me (I Need You)"
(1958)
"I Want You So Bad"
(1959)
Audio video
"Try Me" on YouTube

"Try Me", titled "Try Me (I Need You)" in its original release, is a song recorded by James Brown and the Famous Flames in 1958. It was a #1 R&B hit and charted #48 Pop—the group's first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It was Brown and the Flames' second charting single, ending a two-year dry spell after the success of "Please, Please, Please".

  1. ^ White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.