The albums recorded in this year include:
James Brown Live At The Apollo 1962
James Brown Pure Dynamite Live At The Royal 1963
James Brown Live At The Apollo 2 1967
James Brown Live At The Garden 1967
James Brown Say It Live And Loud 1968
Gene Chandler Live at the Regal 1965
Ray Charles Live In Concert 1964
Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke At The Copa 1964
Aretha Franklin Aretha In Paris 1968
Etta James Rocks The House 1963
Etta James Live From San Francisco 1981
The Miracles Recorded Live On Stage 1962
Esther Phillips Burnin’ Live at Freddie Jett’s Pied Pier LA 1969
Lou Rawls Lou Rawls Live 1966
Otis Redding In Person At The Whisky A Go Go 1966
Otis Redding Live In Europe 1967
Otis Redding Live in London And Paris 1967
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles Live! 1968
Sly And The Family Stone Live At The Fillmore East October 4th & 5th 1968
Sly & The Family Stone The Woodstock Experience 1969
The Stax/Volt Revue Volume One Live In London
The Supremes At The Copa 1965
The Temptations The Temptations Live 1966
The Temptations Live at the Copa 1968
Various Artists Apollo Saturday Night 1964
Jackie Wilson at the Copa 1962
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.
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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.
Rocks The House is the first live album by blues and soul singer Etta James. It was recorded in September 1963 at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee.
I find that some of her later recordings were drowned in strings but here you get to listen to a young, raucous Etta James backed by a small R&B band in an intimate club.
Live In Europe is the first live album released by Otis Redding, recorded in March 1967 on his European tour less than seven months before he died in a plane crash on December 10th, 1967
The Woodstock Experience by Sly & The Family Stone was recorded in August 1969 at the world famous Woodstock festival.
I don’t understand the marketing but this is a two CD set. The first CD is the studio version of the Stand album, the second is the Woodstock recording. There is a series of these Woodstock albums including Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter.
It’s taken us a long time to get a live Sly & The Family Stone album because this was first released in 2009.
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The original James Brown album, Live At The Apollo is one of the most famous and often regarded as one of the best live albums ever. It was recorded in 1962 and released in 1963.
It’s very, very good but I don’t think it quite lives up to its outstanding reputation.
Let me explain why.
Sam Cooke’s live recording, Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963 is a classic from the early days of soul. Incredibly it stayed in the vaults for over twenty years before it was first released in 1985.
Originally a gospel star with the Soul Stirrers, Sam Cooke was a pioneer in both soul and cross-over pop at a time when the civil rights movement was growing.
Early versions of this album were called One Night Stand – Live At The Harlem Square Club.
Set List – 8/10 Rating
The set list is short but what’s on it is gold. Continue reading Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963
