Try Me!

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{{Infobox album

| name = Try Me!

| type = studio

| artist = James Brown and the Famous Flames

| cover = James_Brown_Try_Me.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 1959

| recorded = 1956–59

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rhythm and blues, soul

| length = 40:55

| label = King

| producer =

| prev_title = Please Please Please

| prev_year = 1959

| next_title = Think!

| next_year = 1960

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Try Me!

| type = studio

| single1 = I Want You So Bad

| single1date = February 14, 1959

| single2 = I've Got to Change

| single2date = April 11, 1959

| single3 = It Was You

| single3date = July 19, 1959

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/try-me%21-mw0000647103|title=Try Me! - James Brown / James Brown & His Famous Flames|publisher=AllMusic |access-date=July 15, 2022}}

| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=James Brown|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/108 108]}}

}}

Try Me! is the second studio album by James Brown and the Famous Flames. It is a collection of singles, B-sides, and outtakes from their first album, Please Please Please.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/try-me/382329 |title=iTunes - Music - Try Me! by James Brown & His Famous Flames |publisher=iTunes |access-date=2015-07-04}} It was reissued by King Records in 1964 under the title The Unbeatable James Brown: 16 Hits.

Track listing

All tracks composed by James Brown; except where indicated

{{Track listing

| title1 = There Must Be a Reason

| note1 =

| length1 = 2:28

| title2 = I Want You So Bad

| note2 =

| length2 = 2:47

| title3 = Why Do You Do Me

| writer3 = Bobby Byrd, Sylvester Keels

| length3 = 3:01

| title4 = Got to Cry

| note4 =

| length4 = 2:37

| title5 = Strange Things Happen

| writer5 = Roy Hawkins

| length5 = 2:10

| title6 = Fine Old Foxy Self

| note6 =

| length6 = 2:10

| title7 = Messing With The Blues

| writer7 = Floyd Hunt

| length7 = 2:12

| title8 = Try Me (I Need You)

| note8 =

| length8 = 2:33

| title9 = It Was You

| note9 =

| length9 = 2:45

| title10 = I've Got to Change

| note10 =

| length10 = 2:27

| title11 = Can't Be The Same

| note11 =

| length11 = 2:21

| title12 = It Hurts to Tell You

| writer12 = James Brown, Albert Shubert (Andy Gibson)

| length12 = 2:54

| title13 = I Won't Plead No More

| writer13 = Bobby Byrd, Sylvester Keels

| length13 = 2:28

| title14 = You're Mine, You're Mine

| writer14 = James Brown, Nafloyd Scott

| length14 = 2:33

| title15 = Gonna Try

| note15 =

| length15 = 2:46

| title16 = Don't Let It Happen To Me

| note16 =

| length16 = 2:51

}}

References