Please Please Please (album)

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.

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