wearing capes in his act. Personnel James Brown – lead vocal with the Flames: Bobby Byrd – background vocals Johnny Terry – background vocals Sylvester Keels – background vocals Nash Knox – background vocals Nafloyd Scott – guitar plus: Wilbert "Lee Diamond" Smith – tenor saxophone Ray Felder – tenor saxophone Lucas "Fats" Gonder – piano Clarence Mack – bass Edison Gore – drums Filmed performances Brown and The Famous Flames performed "Please, Please, Please" as part of their set in The T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. In the movie Blues Brothers 2000 Brown performs the song after the closing credits. In Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, an actor in the role of Brown performs the song in a theater along Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue. a live version of the song appears in the film The Commitments James Brown & The Famous Flames also sang and performed "Please Please Please" on a 1964 telecast of Dick Clark's Where The Action Is on ABC. Other versions and recordings In 1964, during a contract dispute between Brown and King Records head Syd Nathan, the label reissued the original 1956 performance of "Please, Please, Please" with overdubbed crowd noise in an attempt to pass it off as a live recording. The reissue reached No. 95 on the Billboard Hot 100. Brown also re-recorded the song several times later in his career. On his 1972 album Get on the Good Foot, he did an upbeat long version, which lasted over twelve minutes. 1974's Hell included a salsa version of the song that featured Brown speaking in Spanish. For Brown's 1976 album Hot, he recorded a more solemn, ballad rendition, which featured male background vocalists in the quiet storm style of Barry White's music. Ike & Tina Turner released a live version of "Please, Please, Please" as single on Kent Records, which was included on their 1964 album Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live. They also performed the song on The Big T.N.T Show in 1965. After their resurgence on the charts, Kent reissued the single in 1970. It reached No. 45 on Record World'''s R&B chart. In February 1967, Swedish band the Maniacs, featuring a young Tommy Körberg recorded the song as a single. Released as a single in March of that year, backed by Paul Ferris "Visions", it became the group's breakthrough hit, reaching No. 5 on Tio i Topp and No. 12 on sales chart