Please, Please, Please

…hated Brown’s first recording, “Please, Please, Please” (1956), but the record eventually sold three million copies and launched Brown’s extraordinary career. Along with placing nearly 100 singles and almost 50 albums on the best-seller charts, Brown broke new ground with two of the first successful “live and in concert”…

…for giving James Brown’s “Please, Please, Please” its first airplay in 1956, spinning it, in fact, before it was an official release. The station had received a rough version of the song, and Allen, filling in one day for Nobles, tried it out and kept it on the air…