James Brown & The Famous Flames has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 32 episodes and was first played on 7 January 2013.

Prior to their first recording, “Please, Please, Please”, The Famous Flames were billed simply as The Flames, and Brown himself was billed as a member of the group. In later concerts and recordings Brown and the group were billed as James Brown and The Famous Flames, or sometimes as James Brown and His Famous Flames.