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For other uses, see Try Me “Try Me” is a song written and performed by James Brown. He recorded it with his singing group The Famous Flames in 1958. A plaintive ballad, it was the group’s second R&B hit (following 1956’s “Please, Please, Please”), and early in 1959 it became their first song to reach #1 on the R&B chart and was also the first time the group hit the Hot 100, peaking at number forty-eight.. Its success is credited with saving Brown’s recording career after a string of nine non-charting singles. He described the song as “really a pop tune. I had heard ‘Raindrops’ by Dee Clark and ‘For Your Precious Love’ by Jerry Butler, so I wrote my song to fit between them.“ He may have been thinking of another Dee Clark song, as “Raindrops” was released two... Read on...