The Singles, Volume 1: The Federal Years: 1956-1960

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Please, Please, Please

  James Brown & The Famous Flames
  2:46
• 2
  Why Do You Do Me

  James Brown & The Famous Flames
  3:02
• 3
  I Don’t Know

  James Brown & The Famous Flames
  2:51
• 4
  I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On

  James Brown & The Famous Flames
  2:35
• 5
  No, No, No, No
  2:15
• 6
  Hold My Baby’s Hand
  2:15
• 7
  I Won’t Plead No More
  2:28
• 8
  Chonnie‐on‐Chon
  2:15
• 9
  Just Won’t Do Right
  2:35
• 10
  Let’s Make It
  2:28
• 11
  Gonna Try
  2:47
• 12
  Can’t Be the Same
  2:23
• 13
  Messing With the Blues
  2:12
• 14
  Love or a Game
  2:19
• 15
  You’re Mine, You’re Mine
  2:33
• 16
  I Walked Alone
  2:42
• 17
  That Dood It
  2:32
• 18
  Baby Cries Over the Ocean
  2:26
• 19
  Begging, Begging
  2:55
• 20
  That’s When I Lost My Heart
  2:52
• 21
  Try Me (demo version)
  2:29
• CD 2
• 1
  Try Me
  2:33
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Tell Me What I Did Wrong
  2:24
• 3
  I Want You So Bad
  2:48
• 4
  There Must Be a Reason
  2:28
• 5
  I’ve Got to Change
  2:28
• 6
  It Hurts to Tell You
  2:55
• 7
  I’ve Got to Change (stereo version)
  2:28
• 8
  It Hurts to Tell You (stereo version)
  2:54
• 9
  Doodle Bee
  2:41
• 10
  Buckethead
  2:50
• 11
  It Was You
  2:46
• 12
  Got to Cry
  2:37
• 13
  Good Good Lovin’
  2:17
• 14
  Don’t Let It Happen to Me
  2:53
• 15
  I’ll Go Crazy
  2:09
• 16
  I Know It’s True
  2:44
• 17
  Think
  2:50
• 18
  You’ve Got the Power

  feat. Bea Ford
  2:23
• 19
  This Old Heart
  2:12
  3.0 ★
• 20
  Wonder When You’re Coming Home
  2:32

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Release credits

• Alfred Corley
  alto saxophone [17]
• Andy Gibson
  producer [1]
• Bernard Odum
  bass [13, 15], electric bass guitar [17]
• Bill Hollings
  background vocals [1], vocal [17]
• Bobby Bennett
  background vocals [13, 15], vocal [17]
• Bobby Byrd
  background vocals [1.1, 2.13, 2.15], piano [13], vocal [17]
• Bobby Roach
  guitar [13, 15, 17]
• Carl Pruitt
  bass [1]
• Clarence Mack
  bass [1]
• Clifford Scott
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Edison Gore
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [1]
• George Dorsey
  alto saxophone [1, 13]
• J.C. Davis
  tenor saxophone [13, 15, 17]
• J.W. Archer
  background vocals [1]
• James Brown
  lead vocals [2.1, 2.13, 2.15-17, 1.1]
• James Brown & The Famous Flames
  performer [1.1, 2.1, 2.13, 2.15, 2.17]
• James McGary
  alto saxophone [15]
• Johnny Terry
  background vocals [1.1, 2.1, 2.13, 2.15], vocal [17]
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar [1]
• Lloyd Stallworth
  background vocals [13, 15], vocal [17]
• Louis Madison
  background vocals [1]
• Luke "Fats" Gonder
  piano [1]
• Nafloyd Scott
  guitar [1]
• Nashpendle Knox
  background vocals [1]
• Nat Kendrick
  drums (drum set) [13, 15, 17]
• Panama Francis
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [1]
• Ray Felder
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Sonny Thompson
  piano [15]
• Sylvester Keels
  background vocals [1]
• The James Brown Band
  performer [15], performing orchestra [17]
• Wilbert Smith
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Willie Johnson
  background vocals [13, 15]
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  The Singles, Volume 1: The Federal Years: 1956-1960

  2x CD
  26 September 2006
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  The Singles Vol. 1: 1956–1960 The Federal Years

  2x Digital Media
  26 September 2006