''Please Please Please'' is the debut
studio album
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by
the Famous Flames under the billing "
James Brown
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and His Famous Flames", featuring the first album of recordings during Brown's long career. It includes the group's first two hit
singles
Singles are people not in a committed relationship.
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* ''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
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on a Japanese 24-bit remastered import CD packaged in a miniature
LP sleeve
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*Liberal Party, in several countries
...
.
Track listing
Personnel
;Musicians
*James Brown - lead vocals
;The Famous Flames
**
Bobby Byrd - backing vocals, piano
**Johnny Terry - backing vocals
**Sylvester Keels - backing vocals
**Bill Hollings - backing vocals
**Louis Madison - backing 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 - 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
References
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James Brown albums
1958 debut albums
King Records (United States) albums
The Famous Flames albums
Albums produced by Ralph Bass