Please Please Please

Album: Please Please Please (1956)
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  • Oh, oh, oh,oh

    I don't mind your love
    I don't mind the one
    You're thinking of

    But I know, I know
    You're going to miss me

    I don't mind
    Your lovesick soul
    I don't mind your
    Care growin' cold

    But I know, I know
    You're going to miss me

    I don't mind
    This is all my song
    I don't mind
    Goodbye, so long

    But I know, I know
    You're going to miss me
    Goodbye, so long
    I don't mind Writer/s: James Brown, Johnny Terry
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 23rd 1956, James Brown and the Famous Flames signed a recording contract with King Records, as a signing bonus they received $200...
    Their first release was the on King Records subsidiary label, Federal Records; it was the classic "Please Please Please", and it would peak at #5 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    For the the next eleven years until 1971 they had fifth seven King/Federal Records make the R&B Singles chart; thirty six of made the Top 10 with ten reaching #1...
    Additionally they had six that would peak at #2...
    'The Godfather of Soul' passed away on Christmas Day of 2006 at the age of 73...
    May he R.I.P.
    * Exactly thirty years later on January 23rd, 1986 James Brown was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame; it was the Hall’s inaugural induction.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 9th 1964, "Please, Please, Please" by James Brown and the Famous Flames entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for a two week stay, peaking at #95...
    It was originally released eight years earlier in 1956; at that it peaked at #5 on Billboard's R&B Singles but did not make the Top 100...
    The record was his debut record on the chart, and was released on the Federal Record label (a subsidiary of King Records)...
    R.I.P. Mr. Brown (1933 - 2006).
  • Jason from Austin, TxClassic James Brown. The great thing about James Brown is that it seems like every time he stepped into the studio, nothing was staged, that raw emotion was the only thing that came out. There is no better soul musician. Who's the boss?
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