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Please, Please, Please

James Brown
Track 1 on Star Time 

Producer

Ralph Bass
One of James Brown’s many many nicknames comes from this song. The hardest working man in show business! The godfather of soul! Mr. Dynamite! More more more, Mr. “Please… Read More 
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Please, Please, Please Lyrics

[Chorus]
Please, please, please, please (Please, please don't go)
Please, please, please (Please, please don't go)
Darling please, don't (Go), whoa oh yeah, oh
I love you so (Please, please don't go)

[Verse 1]
Baby, you did me wrong (You know you done me wrong)
Whoa whoa, you done me wrong (You know you done me wrong)
So you done done me wrong, (Oh) whoa, oh yeah
Oh, you took my love and now you're gone (Please, please don't go)

[Chorus]
Please, please, please, please, (Please, please don't go) please
Please, please, please, please, (Please, please don't go) please
Honey please don't, (Go) whoa, oh yeah
Girl, I love you so (Please, please don't go)

I just want to yersey, I, I, I, I, (Please, please don't go)
I, I, I, I, (Please, please don't go) I
Darling, please don't, (Go) oh, oh yeah, girl
I love you so (Please, please don't go)

[Verse 2]
Baby, take my hand (Please, please don't go)
I want to be your lover man, (Please, please don't go) oh yes, good God almighty
Darling please don't, (Don't) yeah oh yeah, go
I love you so (Please, please don't go)
[Chorus]
Please don't go (Please, please don't go)
Please don't go girl (Please, please don't go)
Darling please don't go
Girl, I love you so
Please (Please, please don't go) please

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One of James Brown’s many many nicknames comes from this song.

The hardest working man in show business! The godfather of soul! Mr. Dynamite! More more more, Mr. “Please, Please, Please” himself, James Brown, ladies and gentlemen! James Brown.

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Star Time (1991)
  1. 1.
    Please, Please, Please
  2. 2.
    Why Do You Do Me
  3. 3.
    Try Me
  4. 4.
    Tell Me What I Did Wrong
  5. 5.
    Bewildered
  6. 6.
    Good Good Lovin’
  7. 7.
    I’ll Go Crazy
  8. 8.
    I Know It’s True
  9. 9.
    (Do the) Mashed Potatoes (Part I)
  10. 10.
    Think
  11. 11.
    Baby, You’re Right
  12. 12.
    Lost Someone
  13. 13.
    Night Train
  14. 14.
    I’ve Got Money
  15. 15.
    I Don’t Mind (Live 1962)
  16. 16.
    Prisoner of Love
  17. 17.
    Devil’s Den
  18. 18.
    Out Of The Blue (Alternate Take)
  19. 19.
    Out Of Sight
  20. 20.
    Grits
  21. 21.
    Maybe the Last Time
  22. 23.
    I Got You
  23. 24.
    Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag - Pts. 1, 2 & 3
  24. 25.
    Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag (Part 1)
  25. 26.
    I Got You (I Feel Good)
  26. 27.
    Ain’t That a Groove
  27. 28.
    It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
  28. 29.
    Money Won’t Change You
  29. 30.
    Don’t Be a Dropout
  30. 31.
    Bring It Up (Hipsters Avenue)
  31. 32.
    Let Yourself Go
  32. 33.
    Cold Sweat
  33. 34.
    Get It Together
  34. 35.
    I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
  35. 36.
    I Got the Feelin’
  36. 37.
    Licking Stick-Licking Stick
  37. 38.
    Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud
  38. 39.
    There Was a Time (Live at Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, 1968)
  39. 40.
    Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
  40. 41.
    I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself)
  41. 42.
    Mother Popcorn
  42. 43.
    Funky Drummer
  43. 44.
    Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine (Pts. 1 & 2)
  44. 45.
    Super Bad
  45. 46.
    Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothing
  46. 47.
    Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 1 & 2)
  47. 48.
    Soul Power
  48. 49.
    Brother Rapp/Ain’t It Funky Now (Live, Olympia Paris, 1971)
  49. 50.
    Hot Pants, Pt. 1
  50. 51.
    I’m a Greedy Man (Part 1)
  51. 52.
    Make It Funky (Part 1)
  52. 53.
    Intro/It’s A New Day (So Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn) (Live At The Apollo Theater/1971)
  53. 54.
    I Got Ants In My Pants
  54. 55.
    King Heroin
  55. 56.
    There It Is (Pt. 1)
  56. 57.
    Public Enemy No. 1, Pt. 1
  57. 58.
    Get On the Good Foot
  58. 59.
    I Got a Bag of My Own
  59. 60.
    Doing It to Death
  60. 61.
    The Payback
  61. 62.
    Papa Don’t Take No Mess (Part 1)
  62. 63.
    Stoned to the Bone (Part 1)
  63. 64.
    My Thang
  64. 65.
    Funky President (People It’s Bad)
  65. 66.
    Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)
  66. 67.
    Get Up Offa That Thing (Release The Pressure) [Edit]
  67. 68.
    Bodyheat (Part 1)
  68. 69.
    It’s Too Funky In Here
  69. 70.
    Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses?) (Part 1)
  70. 71.
    Unity (Pt. 1 - The Third Coming)
Credits
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Background Vocals
Saxophone
Piano
Guitar
Drums
Bass
Recorded At
King Studios (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Released in
March 1956
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