James Brown - Please, Please, Please / Why Do You Do Me - 1956 - 78 RPM
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James Brown with The Famous Flames > Please, Please, Please / Why Do You Do Me > Federal Record Label no. 12258, 78rpm, 1956
This record has some rub marks and light needle scratches on both sides but plays great, very little to no background noise. Very little ware by being played.
I ship all of my 78 records in 12 inch X 12 inch X 4 inch deep boxes
In 1952, James Brown was released from a youth detention center in Toccoa, Georgia, after Bobby Byrd and his family sponsored him. Brown's warden agreed to the release on the condition that Brown not return to Augusta. After his release, Brown briefly pursued a career in sports before starting his musical career as a gospel vocalist with the group the Ever-Ready Gospel Singers. When a member of Bobby Byrd's vocal group, the Avons, died in 1954, Byrd asked Brown to join his group. A year later, after performing as the Five Royals, they became the Flames, playing all over Georgia and South Carolina.
According to Etta James, Brown and his group came up with the idea for their first song, because Brown "used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, 'please, please, please' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it".
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