• The Famous Flames were an American rhythm and blues, soul vocal group founded in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1953 by Bobby Byrd. James Brown first began his career...
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    the Famous Flames, and his band, a separate entity from the Flames, sometimes named the James Brown Orchestra or the James Brown Band. In 1960, the band...
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  • musician, noted for being a member of the vocal group The Famous Flames from 1958 to 1968. During his time in the group, he served as a singer, songwriter...
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  • Bobby Byrd (category The Famous Flames members)
    Brown's joining the group; their agent later changed it to The Famous Flames. Byrd, the founder of "The Flames," is credited with the discovery of James...
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  • James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. is the fifth studio album by American musician James Brown and The Famous Flames. The album was released...
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    Richards of the Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown and the Famous Flames (Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett, and Lloyd Stallworth) was the worst...
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    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...
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  • Live at the Apollo is the first live album by James Brown and the Famous Flames, recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in October 1962 and released...
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  • James Brown & the Famous Flames "Ain't That a Groove, Pt. 2" (Brown, Nat Jones) – 1:47 – James Brown & the Famous Flames "New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo), Pt...
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  • Please, Please, Please (category The Famous Flames songs)
    and the Famous Flames. Written by Brown and Johnny Terry and released as a single on Federal Records in 1956, it reached No. 6 on the R&B charts. The group's...
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  • composer Bobby Bennett (The Famous Flames) (1938–2013), member of James Brown's singing group The Famous Flames Bob Bennett, drummer for The Sonics Bob Bennett...
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  • Marvin Hamlisch's "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" on the bus, and James Brown & The Famous Flames (Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth, and Bobby Bennett) who...
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  • singer and shifts the group's sound toward R&B. He leads them to jump onstage at a Little Richard show, introduces them as "the Famous Flames", and they perform...
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  • Think! (James Brown album) (category The Famous Flames albums)
    Think! is the third studio album by James Brown and The Famous Flames, featuring the hit singles "Baby You're Right" and their cover of "Bewildered", along...
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  • Tina Turner), and "Think" (James Brown & The Famous Flames). Brown modeled his first vocal group after the "5" Royales, and both Eric Clapton and Stax...
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    "Catfish" Collins, formerly of the obscure funk band The Pacemakers; Bobby Byrd (founder of the original Famous Flames singing group) (organ), and John...
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  • Baby Lloyd Stallworth (category The Famous Flames members)
    was a member of the R&B vocal group The Famous Flames on King Records from 1958 to 1967. Stallworth was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall...
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  • The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary. The Flames compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific...
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    In 2012, six additional groups, the Miracles, the Famous Flames, the Comets, the Blue Caps, the Midnighters, and the Crickets, were inducted as performers...
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  • January 1, 1966. Brown's vocal group, The Famous Flames—Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett, and Lloyd Stallworth—can be heard on the previously released songs "Think"...
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    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2012. Retrieved February 26, 2012. "The Famous Flames". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2012. Retrieved February 26, 2012. "Guns...
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  • Try Me! (category The Famous Flames albums)
    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...
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  • Gladys Knight & the Pips Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Home Free Human Nature James Brown & The Famous Flames Jay & the Americans Jodeci Labelle Ladysmith...
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  • vocal group, the Famous Flames (Bobby Bennett, Bobby Byrd, and Lloyd Stallworth).The hit songs, "Bewildered" and "I Don't Mind", and the song, "Come Over...
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  • members of the Famous Flames), and female vocalist Tammy Montgomery, who went on to record for Motown as Tammi Terrell. It ceased operations in the wake of...
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  • The Amazing James Brown is the fourth studio album by American musician James Brown and The Famous Flames. The album was released in 1961, by King Records...
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  • Please Please Please (album) (category The Famous Flames albums)
    Please Please Please is the debut studio album by the Famous Flames under the billing "James Brown and His Famous Flames", featuring the first album of recordings...
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    Brown's band, the Famous Flames, the band settled on Kool & the Gang instead. After selecting the new band name and line-up, Kool & the Gang signed a...
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    Little Richard (category Deaths from bone cancer in the United States)
    Gospel, the Blues & R&B, to Rock & Roll, & Hip-Hop." James Brown and Otis Redding both idolized him. Brown allegedly came up with the Famous Flames debut...
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  • "Please, Please, Please" is a 1956 song by James Brown & the Famous Flames. Please, Please, Please may also refer to: Please Please Please (album), an...
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