James Brown performs "Try Me"--Live at the Apollo Theater in New York City, March 1968. James Brown: Man to Man was a concert film recorded live at the Apollo Theater. It was broadcast as an hour-long syndicated television special and is one of the first color recordings of James Brown.
James Brown's first #1 hit, "Try Me," was released in 1958. It is the best-selling R&B single of 1958 and the first of 17 chart-topping R&B singles by Brown over the next two decades. James Brown recorded an instrumental version of "Try Me" for the Smash label in 1965 which charted #34 R&B and #63 Pop in the U.S. It was one of the few times in American music history that a song became a hit on two separate occasions in vocal and instrumental form by the same artist.
Video transcript:
James Brown: Try me. Try me. Darlin tell me I need you. Try me.
Back Up Singers: Try me.
James Brown: Try me.
Back Up Singers: Try me.
James Brown: And your love will always be true. Oh I need you.
Back Up Singers: I need you.
James Brown: Oh now hold me.
Back Up Singers: Hold me.
James Brown: Hold me.
Back Up Singers: Hold me.
James Brown: I want you right here by my side. Hold me.
Back Up Singers: Hold me.
James Brown: Hold me.
Back Up Singers: Hold me.
James Brown: And your love oh darling we won't hide. I need you.
Back Up Singers: I need you.
James Brown: Oh i need you. What should I do now?
[Instrumental Music]
James Brown: Oh I need you.
Back Up Singers: I need you.
James Brown: Oh oh walk with me.
Back Up Singers: Walk with me.
James Brown: Talk with me.
Back Up Singers: Talk with me.
James Brown: I want you to stop my stop my heart from crying. Walk with me.
Back Up Singers: Walk with me.
James Brown: Oh Talk with me.
Back Up Singers: Talk with me.
James Brown: And your love will stop my heart from dying. Oh I need you.
Back Up Singers: I need you hoo hoo.
Want more of Shout Factory's best picks? GO TO:
http://www.shoutfactory.com/ten
Want more James Brown, go to Shout Factory:
http://www.shoutfactory.com/jamesbrown"
