James Brown: The Indispensable 1956-1961

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Please Please Please
  2:47
• 2
  I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
  2:36
• 3
  Why Do You Do Me (Like You Do)
  3:03
• 4
  I Don’t Know
  2:49
• 5
  I Walked Alone
  2:44
• 6
  No, No, No, No
  2:16
• 7
  You’re Mine, You’re Mine
  2:34
• 8
  Hold My Baby’s Hand
  2:15
• 9
  Chonnie‐on‐Chon
  2:14
• 10
  I Won’t Plead No More
  2:29
• 11
  Just Won’t Do Right
  2:37
• 12
  Let’s Make It
  2:28
• 13
  Gonna Try
  2:48
• 14
  Can’t Be the Same
  2:18
• 15
  Messing With the Blues
  2:14
• 16
  Fine Old Foxy Self
  2:12
• 17
  Love Is a Game
  2:18
• 18
  Why Does Everything Happen to Me (Strange Things Happen)
  2:13
• 19
  Begging, Begging
  2:55
• 20
  Baby Cries Over to the Ocean
  2:35
• CD 2
• 1
  Try Me
  2:34
• 2
  Tell Me What I Did Wrong
  2:24
• 3
  That’s When I Lost My Heart
  2:51
• 4
  That Dood It
  2:29
• 5
  There Must Be a Reason
  2:25
• 6
  I’ve Got to Change
  2:29
• 7
  Got to Cry
  2:35
• 8
  It Was You
  2:46
• 9
  I Want You So Bad
  2:49
• 10
  It Hurts to Tell You
  2:55
• 11
  Don’t Let It Happen to Me
  2:54
• 12
  Bewildered
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Good Good Lovin’
  2:20
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Wonder When You’re Comin’ Home
  2:38
• 15
  I’ll Go Crazy
  2:10
• 16
  This Old Heart
  2:13
  3.0 ★
• 17
  I Know It’s True
  2:44
• 18
  Think
  2:47
• 19
  I’ll Never Never Let You Go
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 20
  You’ve Got the Power
  2:23
• CD 3
• 1
  I Don’t Mind
  3:18
• 2
  If You Want Me
  2:27
• 3
  Baby You’re Right
  3:01
• 4
  Love Don’t Love Nobody
  2:08
• 5
  Come Over Here
  2:46
• 6
  And I Do Just What I Want
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Just You and Me, Darling
  2:50
• 8
  So Long
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Tell Me What Cha Gonna Do
  2:14
• 10
  The Bells
  2:58
• 11
  Hold It
  2:12
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Dancing Little Thing
  1:58
• 13
  You Don’t Have to Go
  2:48
• 14
  Lost Someone
  3:29
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Shout and Shimmy
  3:19
• 16
  Night Train
  3:42
• 17
  (I Love You) Yes I Do
  2:49
• 18
  Have Mercy Baby
  2:15
• 19
  Just Won’t Do Right
  2:42

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Release credits

• Alfred Corley
  alto saxophone [3.2, 3.4, 2.19-20], tenor saxophone [2.19, 3.2]
• Andy Gibson
  producer [12]
• Bea Ford
  vocal [20]
• Bernard Odum
  bass [2.13, 2.15, 2.19, 3.2], bass guitar [20], electric bass guitar [12]
• Bill Hollings
  background vocals [12]
• Bobby Bennett
  background vocals [13, 15], vocal [3.2, 3.4, 2.19]
• Bobby Byrd
  background vocals [12-13, 15], organ [14], piano [13], vocal [3.2, 3.4, 2.19]
• Bobby Roach
  guitar [2.12-13, 2.15, 2.19-20, 3.2]
• George Dorsey
  alto saxophone [12-13]
• Hubert Perry
  bass [4], electric bass guitar [14]
• J.C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [3.2, 3.4, 3.14, 2.12-13, 2.15, 2.19-20]
• J.W. Archer
  background vocals [12]
• James Brown
  lead vocals [3.2, 3.4, 3.14, 2.12-13, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19], vocal [20]
• James Brown & The Famous Flames
  performer [1.3, 2.12-13, 2.15]
• James McGary
  alto saxophone [15]
• Johnny Terry
  background vocals [13, 15]
• Les Buie
  guitar [4, 14]
• Lloyd Stallworth
  background vocals [13, 15], vocal [2.19, 3.2, 3.4]
• Louis Madison
  keyboard [12]
• Lucas Fats Gonder
  piano [3.2, 2.19-20]
• Nat Kendrick
  drums (drum set) [2.12-13, 2.15, 2.19-20, 3.2, 3.4], membranophone [14]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [3]
• Roscoe Patrick
  trumpet [2.19-20, 3.2, 3.4, 3.14]
• Sonny Thompson
  piano [15], producer [4]
• The James Brown Band
  performer [3.14, 2.15]
• Willie Johnson
  background vocals [13, 15]
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Issues

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  James Brown: The Indispensable 1956-1961

  3x CD
  2012