Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He first came to national public attention in the mid-1950s as the lead singer of the Famous Flames, a rhythm and blues vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd. With the hit ballads "Please, Please, Please" and "Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. His success peaked in the 1960s with the live album Live at the Apollo and hit singles such as "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World".
During the late 1960s, Brown moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music-making, emphasizing stripped-down interlocking rhythms that influenced the development of funk music. By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of the J.B.s with records such as "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" and "The Payback". He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud". Brown continued to perform and record until his death from pneumonia in 2006.
Brown recorded 17 singles that reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts. He also holds the record for the most singles listed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that did not reach No. 1. Brown was posthumously inducted into the first class of the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2013 as an artist and then in 2017 as a songwriter. He also received honors from several other institutions, including inductions into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In Joel Whitburn's analysis of the Billboard R&B charts from 1942 to 2010, Brown is ranked No. 1 in The Top 500 Artists. He is ranked seventh on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown
Studio albums
Please Please Please (1958)
Try Me! (1959)
Think! (1960)
The Amazing James Brown (1961)
James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. (1962)
Prisoner of Love (1963)
Grits & Soul (1964)
Showtime (1964)
Out of Sight (1964)
James Brown Plays James Brown Today & Yesterday (1965)
Mighty Instrumentals (1966)
James Brown Plays New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) (1966)
James Brown Sings Christmas Songs (1966)
Handful of Soul (1966)
James Brown Sings Raw Soul (1967)
James Brown Plays the Real Thing (1967)
Cold Sweat (1967)
I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me (1968)
I Got the Feelin' (1968)
James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul (1968)
Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things (1968)
A Soulful Christmas (1968)
Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud (1969)
Gettin' Down to It (1969)
The Popcorn (1969)
It's a Mother (1969)
Ain't It Funky (1970)
Soul on Top (1970)
It's a New Day - Let a Man Come In (1970)
Hey America (1970)
Sho Is Funky Down Here (1971)
Hot Pants (1971)
There It Is (1972)
Get on the Good Foot (1972)
Black Caesar (1973)
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
The Payback (1973)
Hell (1974)
Reality (1974)
Sex Machine Today (1975)
Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump (1975)
Hot (1976)
Get Up Offa That Thing (1976)
Bodyheat (1976)
Mutha's Nature (1977)
Jam 1980's (1978)
Take a Look at Those Cakes (1978)
The Original Disco Man (1979)
People (1980)
Soul Syndrome (1980)
Nonstop! (1981)
Bring It On! (1983)
Gravity (1986)
I'm Real (1988)
Love Over-Due (1991)
Universal James (1993)
I'm Back (1998)
The Merry Christmas Album (1999)
The Next Step (2002)
Please Please
James Brown Lyrics
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(Please, please don't go)
Don't go, oh, oh
Oh, oh, I need you, darling
You've got the power of love
I found someone to love me
I found someone to love me
I found someone to love me
I know it's true, I love you
I found someone to love me
Why did it happen this way?
Someone has taken my place
Girl, want to share my embrace
Why do you do me like you do
You made me love you but I feel so sad
You made me need you and it's driving me so mad
I want you so bad
I love you yes I do
I love you yes, I do
I know your love it's true from the way I looked at you
You love me yes, you do
You need me, I need you
I'm ours my whole life
Since I've lay eyes on you
I guess you knew it from the start
From the day you took my heart
You are the one girl I'll always admire
I must be whenever you are
But I want to let you know one thing
I want to tell you one thing
I want to tell you one thing
I was walking down the streets
Why just everything happen to me
why just everything happen to me
Please, I'm lonely, I'm by myself now and the love's a memory
And so many strange things happen to me, all day long
Strange, strange things happen to me, all day long
Please I'm lonely, everything I do is wrong
Bewildered
Love, I dream of you
Well, I love, I need you
Why did we part?
Baby, take my hand (Please don't go)
I want to be a better man (please, please, don't go)
Honey, please (don't go)
I love you so (please, please, don't go)
Please don't go (please, please, don't go)
Please don't go (please, please, don't go)
Honey please don't go (don't go)
I love you so (please, please, don't go)
The song "Please Please Please" by James Brown is a pleading love song. The lyrics speak to the desperation of a man who has found someone to love him, but that person has taken his place and left him alone. He pleads with her not to go and expresses his love and need for her. The repetition of "please" emphasizes the urgency of his plea. The line "I'm lonely, everything I do is wrong" further emphasizes his desperation and how lost he feels without her.
The lyrics also speak to the power dynamics in a relationship. The man acknowledges that the woman has the power of love and that he is vulnerable without her. He wants to be a better man for her and admires her, but he is also bewildered by the way she has hurt him. Despite this, he still loves and needs her.
Overall, the song is a powerful expression of love and longing, and the desperation that can come with it.
Line by Line Meaning
Please, please, please, please
The singer is desperately begging their love interest to stay with them.
(Please, please don't go)
The singer is asking their love interest not to leave them.
Don't go, oh, oh
The singer is expressing their fear that their love interest will leave them and they don't want that to happen.
Oh, oh, I need you, darling
The artist is expressing how much they need their love interest.
You've got the power of love
The artist is acknowledging that their love interest has power over them and their emotions.
I found someone to love me
The singer is admitting to finding someone to love them.
I know it's true, I love you
The singer is admitting their love for their love interest.
Why did it happen this way?
The artist is questioning why their relationship had to end or why their love interest had to leave them.
Someone has taken my place
The artist is saying that someone else has taken their love interest's place in their life.
Girl, want to share my embrace
The artist is asking their love interest to share a physical embrace with them.
Why do you do me like you do
The singer is questioning why their love interest is treating them poorly or hurting them emotionally.
You made me love you but I feel so sad
The artist is acknowledging that their love interest made them fall in love, but the current circumstances make them feel sad.
You made me need you and it's driving me so mad
The singer is admitting that they need their love interest to the point of it driving them mad.
I want you so bad
The singer is expressing their strong desire for their love interest.
I love you yes I do
The singer is affirming their love for their love interest.
I know your love it's true from the way I looked at you
The artist is saying that they know their love interest's love is true based on the way they have looked at them.
You love me yes, you do
The artist is acknowledging that their love interest loves them as well.
You need me, I need you
The singer is acknowledging the mutual need they have for each other.
I'm ours my whole life
The singer is saying they belong to their love interest for the rest of their life.
Since I've lay eyes on you
The artist is saying they have been attached to their love interest ever since they first saw them.
I guess you knew it from the start
The artist is saying their love interest probably knew that they would fall in love with them from the beginning.
From the day you took my heart
The artist is saying their love interest took their heart from the day they met.
You are the one girl I'll always admire
The singer is saying their love interest is the one girl they will always look up to.
I must be whenever you are
The artist is saying they feel they must be with their love interest at all times.
But I want to let you know one thing
The singer is getting ready to reveal something important to their love interest.
I was walking down the streets
The singer is recounting a moment when they were walking down the streets.
Why just everything happen to me
The singer is asking why everything seems to be happening poorly for them.
Please, I'm lonely, I'm by myself now and the love's a memory
The artist is admitting to feeling lonely without their love interest and that their relationship is now a memory.
And so many strange things happen to me, all day long
The artist is saying that strange things seem to be happening to them all the time.
Bewildered
The singer is expressing that they are confused and lost.
Love, I dream of you
The singer is confessing to dreaming about their love interest.
Well, I love, I need you
The artist is reaffirming their love and need for their love interest.
Why did we part?
The artist is asking why they had to break up or why their love interest had to leave them.
Baby, take my hand (Please don't go)
The artist is reaching out to their love interest, asking them not to leave them.
I want to be a better man (please, please, don't go)
The singer is saying they want to be a better person for their love interest so that they won't leave.
Honey, please (don't go)
The artist is again pleading with their love interest not to leave.
I love you so (please, please, don't go)
The singer is expressing their love for their love interest and asking them not to leave.
Please don't go (please, please, don't go)
The singer is again pleading with their love interest not to leave.
Honey please don't go (don't go)
The singer is continuously begging their love interest not to leave.
I love you so (please, please, don't go)
The artist is again expressing their love for their love interest and imploring them not to leave.
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JAMES BROWN, BOBBY BYRD, LLOYD EUGENE STALLWORTH
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@JohnDoe-vj2yy
James Brown was...(and ALWAYS WILL BE) one of the GREATEST artists EVER!!! And the reason for it is very simple!!!
HE WAS REAL!!!
In contrast to TODAY`S musicians, James Brown never gave a sh....t about being liked by "others"!
Compromises were alien to him...and he just only listened to his instincts...(as an artist...but as a person, as well!!!)
YES...he KNEW sometimes, how to act as an a...hole and was confident of himself...and of his work!
I have honestly NEVER seen a guy before...who has LIVED his music so much, like HE did!!!
(No wonder that people like Jackson, or Prince... were influenced by his art/talent and passion!!!)
James Brown was not only a musician...and an artist..!
In MY opinion, he was much more than this! HE WAS THE ART!!!
Looking back...there were people like: Michelangelo and Dali as painters...or Mozart and Beethoven as composers...and many others more...!
And James Brown is DEFINITELY someone, who belongs into this..."Pantheon"!!!
As a singer/dancer...and as an ENTERTAINER...he used to possess uniqueness and credibility, rarely seen TODAY!!!
And so I just LOVE watching his live-concerts on You Tube...and hearing him singing...when I´m on the way..!!! (...even being a "white-fan"!)
@youngestoldie4458
My grandma was actually in the audience there, she told me her and her friends knew they would never see something as incredible as this performance again
@lambdachi493
Lie
@youremybiggestfan
God bless your granma... :D Shes already blessed to witness something like this tho
@ChroniclesofAlicha_Balaam
That is so special...my Mom saw BB King when I was in her belly. In 62 in San Diego... Women were beinng carried out by their men including my sweet Mama. Orgasmic was how she described it!!! Kings.... Foriver into Eternity!!!! Top Notch!!!
@Clyde177
@@ChroniclesofAlicha_Balaam That's James Brown not BB King..... and I Love you.
@bless6952
BBking lol
@Mextazectaces
I just adore the melodrama of it all. Like he’s performing through a heart attack.
@DaygoKid94
I just want to know who idea this was. This was a genius way to perform this song.
@DouglasRichardson-er4ky
This was WILD sh!t so original every single musician that came after points to James Brown definitely was a thug but times were tough back then 🕺🏿the guys w jacket duty got paid overtime so cool 😎 👍🏻
@smoothskin46
@@DaygoKid94This is an example of
African American culture, we do things like this all the time, that's why so many copy our culture this is just an example of our talent we do all the time.