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
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Category:King Records (United States) albums
Category:The Famous Flames albums
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