Temptations Live! was the first live album released by The Temptations and was recorded at the Roostertail club, Detroit, Michigan in October 1966.
Temptations Live!
Category: Soul Live Albums
Soul Live Albums
Are you ready to testify to your feeling?
Soul music has come out of combining gospel with the blues and it’s nothing if it doesn’t have passion.
There are live albums here that will take you back to a late night, sweaty club where the band punches hard when it needs to and then lightens up for the singer to pour out his heart and soul… screaming, shouting, singing so sweetly, whispering, hollering… whatever the style, you know the singer feels it.
There are some great live soul albums in this category by Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and many more.
There is a readers poll to find the very best – The Best Live Soul Albums
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James Brown Live At The Apollo 1962
James Brown Live At The Apollo 2 1967
Solomon Burke Soul Alive
Ray Charles At Newport 1958
Ray Charles In Person 1959
Otis Clay Soul Man Live In Japan 1983
Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963
Sam Cooke At The Copa 1964
Aretha Franklin Aretha Live At Fillmore West 1971
Marvin Gaye Live 1974
Marvin Gaye Live At The London Palladium 1976
Al Green Tokyo Live 1978
Etta James Rocks The House 1963
Curtis Mayfield Curtis Live 1971
Maze Live In New Orleans 1980
Otis Redding In Person At The Whisky A Go Go 1966
Otis Redding Live In Europe 1967
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson It’s Your World 1976
Gil Scott-Heron Tour De Force Live 1994
Sly & The Family Stone The Woodstock Experience 1969
The Temptations Live 1966
Tina Turner Tina Live In Europe 1986
Bobby Womack The Womack Live
Gil Scott-Heron Tour De Force Live 1994
Tour De Force is a live album by Gil Scott-Heron that captures a concert from about 1994.
It has been released in a number of different formats and edits but I believe that Tour De Force is the most comprehensive. It’s also the version I bought so it’s the one I’m best qualified to talk about.
Variations of Tour De Force have been released as:
Minister of Information: Live
The Best Of Gil Scott-Heron Live
Save The Children
Winter In America, Summer In Europe
Greatest Hits Live
Gil Scott-Heron Tour De Force
Marvin Gaye Live At The London Palladium 1976
Live At The London Palladium is a live album by Marvin Gaye recorded in London in October 1976.
This album includes three long medleys of many of his hits.
Marvin Gaye Live At The London Palladium
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Beyonce At The 2013 Super Bowl
Beyonce performed during the break at the 2013 Super Bowl between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers.
I had been thinking about featuring these short gigs on the blog since they are the highest profile live music performances each year.
Beyonce performed a medley of her solo hits Love on Top, Crazy in Love, End Of Time and Baby Boy and then she was joined on stage by former Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams to perform Bootylicious and Independent Women. Shge finished with Single Ladies and Halo. Continue reading Beyonce At The 2013 Super Bowl
Otis Clay Soul Man Live In Japan 1983
Soul Man Live In Japan is a live album recorded by Southern soul singer Otis Clay in 1983.
If you love soul where the band gets into the groove, then this album by Otis Clay is for you.
Otis Clay Soul Man Live In Japan
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Live At The Bottom Line Aug 20, 1977
Live At The Bottom Line August 20, 1977 is a recording of a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson concert in New York. It is available to buy through Wolfgang’s Vault.
This is the pair playing live thirteen months after the first live album, It’s Your World was recorded. This time, the pair (together with the Midnight Band) were promoting the Bridges studio album. (In fact, Gil says on the recording that it is released “next week”.)
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Live At The Bottom Line
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Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson It’s Your World 1976
It’s Your World is a live album recorded by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson from concerts in Boston in July 1976.
It also includes four tracks that were recorded in the studio.
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson It’s Your World
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Otis Redding In Person At The Whisky A Go Go 1966
In Person At The Whisky A Go Go is a live album by soul legend Otis Redding. It was recorded at the Whisky A Go Go club in Los Angeles, early in 1966 before he’d made his reputation with a white audience at the Monterey festival.
Otis Redding In Person At The Whisky A Go Go
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Ray Charles In Person 1959
In Person is a live album by Ray Charles recorded at Morris Brown College’s Herndon Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia in May 1959. It was released in July 1960.
Ray Charles In Person
Sam Cooke At The Copa 1964
At The Copa is a live album by soul singer Sam Cooke. It was recorded at the Copacabana night club in New York in 1964.
He died on December 11th, 1964 so this is the last live recording we have of Sam Cooke.
This has a very different sound and feel to Live At The Harlem Square Club.
You can’t take the soul out of Sam Cooke but the emphasis here is on singing ballads.
