James Brown (View Discography)

Release Info

This two-disc set collects key tracks and singles from James Brown's stay at the King subsidiary Federal Records between 1956 and 1960, including his first two big hits, 1956’s “Please, Please, Please” and 1958’s “Try Me.” Brown was still searching for his style at this time, which explains sides like the doo wop tune “That’s When I Lost My Heart,” but he was hardening his style and beginning to put it all together, a moment that arrived with the release of the Live at the Apollo LP in 1963, which showcased Brown's fiery and exciting stage show. These are the King/Federal recordings that led up to that pivotal LP. ~ Steve Leggett

Tracks

1. I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
2. Bewildered
4. This Old Heart
5. Begging, Begging
7. Messing with the Blues
8. And I Do Just What I Want
10. Strange Things Happen (aka Why Does Everything Happen to Me)
11. That Dood It
13. Love or a Game
14. Try Me
16. It Hurts to Tell You
20. If You Want Me

1. Please, Please, Please
2. There Must Be a Reason
4. Tell Me What I Did Wrong
6. So Long
7. Why Do You Do Me
8. Chonnie-On-Chon
9. I Want You So Bad
10. Gonna Try
11. Baby Cries Over the Ocean
12. Think
13. No, No, No, No
14. It Was You
15. Fine Old Foxy Self
16. The Bells
19. I Walked Alone