Originally issued in 1959 to capitalize on the crossover success of “Try Me”, James Browns 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 uptempo 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. 1. Please, Please, Please 2. Chonnie-On-Chon 3. Hold My Babys Hand 4. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On 5. Just Wont Do Right 6. Baby Cries Over the Ocean 7. I Dont Know 8. Tell Me What I Did Wrong 9. Try Me 10. That Dood It 11. Begging, Begging 12. I Walked Alone 13. No, No, No, No 14. Thats When I Lost My Heart 15. Lets Make It 16. Love or a Game 17. This Old Heart
