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This is a discography chronicling the musical career of James Brown. Brown joined the Flames in 1953 first as a drummer and then as leading front man. Later becoming The Famous Flames they signed with Federal Records in 1956 and recorded their first hit single Please Please Please which sold over a million copies. After the hit release of Try Me following nine relative failures the group scored a series of hit albums and recordings in the early 1960s.