Live at the Apollo (James Brown album)
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Live at the Apollo is the first live album by US R&B singer James Brown . The album was recorded on October 24, 1962 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem , New York City , and was released the following year on the King Records label . The music magazine Rolling Stone named Live at the Apollo the best live album of all time.
History of origin
James Brown had booked several appearances in the famous Harlem theater from October 19, 1962 with his companion band Famous Flames . At the same time, he wanted to have his appearance preserved there for the first time so that it could be offered as a live album. His record manager, Syd Nathan of King Records, was not enthusiastic about this because he was not convinced that a live album with already known songs could be sold. Nathan even refused to finance this production, so Brown met the production cost of US $ 5,700 from his own resources. A-1 Sound was the only company that had portable recording technology and installed the sound technology in the theater for the show on October 24, 1962. On the sixth day of the performances, the show went perfectly and the on-site producers were happy with the results. But not label owner Nathan, for whose opinion the album did not meet the standards that King Records has set. In addition, Nathan made the profits exclusively with singles, but not with LPs, he let Brown know. The discussions, but also the editing of the tapes, lasted until January 1963. Brown was finally able to change the mind of the label boss by refusing to make recordings for King Records for a while and instead released them for Smash Records .
Publication and Success
The album was finally released as Live at the Apollo (K # 826) in January 1963. Syd Nathan in particular was excited to see which piece of music the radio stations from the album would play. As it turned out, for the first time an entire LP had airplay in the otherwise singles-oriented, predominantly "black" radio stations. The album came on June 28, 1963 in the Billboard 200 , so the American album charts , in which it reached its highest position with number 2. It stayed in the charts for 66 weeks, over a year, and over a million copies were sold, which no “black” music album has ever achieved. At the same time it was the first live album that became a million seller .
Live at the Apollo was first released on CD by Polydor on July 10, 1990 after extensive remastering technology , because the master tapes could not be found at first and were only rediscovered in 1989. On March 23, 2004, another version of the album with bonus tracks was released on Polydor .
Track list
- page 1
- Introduction to James Brown and The Famous Flames by Fats Gonder - 2:04
- I'll Go Crazy (James Brown) - 1:42
- Try Me (Brown) - 2:21
- Think ( Lowman Pauling ) - 1:53
- I Don't Mind (Brown) - 2:35
- Lost Someone, Pt. 1 (Brown, Bobby Byrd , Lloyd Stallworth) - 4:01
- Page 2
- Lost Someone, Pt. 2 (Brown, Byrd, Stallworth) - 5:54
- Medley: - 6:25
- Please, Please, Please (Brown, Johnny Terry)
- You've Got the Power (Brown, Terry)
- I Found Someone (I Know It's True) (Brown)
- Why Do You Do Me (Byrd, Sylvester Keels)
- I Want You So Bad (Brown)
- I Love You, Yes I Do ( Henry Glover , Sally Nix )
- Strange Things Happen (Brown)
- Bewildered ( Teddy Powell , Leonard Whitcup)
- Please, Please, Please (Brown, Terry)
- Night Train ( Jimmy Forrest , Oscar Washington) - 2:45
- CD bonus tracks
- Introduction to James Brown and The Famous Flames by Fats Gonder - 1:48
- I'll Go Crazy (Brown) - 2:05
- Try Me (Brown) - 2:26
- Think (Pauling) - 1:57
- I Don't Mind (Brown) - 2:39
- Lost Someone (Brown, Byrd, Stallworth) - 10:43
- Medley - 6:26
- Please, Please, Please (Brown, Terry)
- You've Got the Power (Brown, Terry)
- I Found Someone (I Know It's True) (Brown)
- Why Do You Do Me (Byrd, Keels)
- I Want You So Bad (Brown)
- I Love You, Yes I Do (Glover, Nix)
- Strange Things Happen (Brown)
- Bewildered (Powell, Whitcup)
- Please, Please, Please (Brown, Terry)
- Night Train (Forrest, Washington) - 3:28
- Think (L. Pauling) - 2:00 (Single Mix, Radio Promo Version)
- Medley - 2:10 (single mix)
- I Found Someone (I Know It's True) (J. Brown)
- Why Do You Do Me (Byrd, Keels)
- I Want You So Bad (Brown)
- Lost Someone (Brown, Byrd, Stallworth) - 2:42 (Single Mix)
- I'll Go Crazy (Brown) - 2:16 (Single Mix)
reception
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Currently, Live at the Apollo is considered one of the best live albums and is a widely recognized classic of popular music . The Rolling Stone leads it to number 25 of the 500 best albums of all time , making it the highest-ranked live album in the list. On top of that, it was voted number 1 of the 50 best live albums by the magazine. In the selection of the 500 best albums of all time of the New Musical Express has Live at the Apollo space 125. The website Pitchfork chose it in 7th place of the 200 best albums of the 1960s. The magazine Time took Live at the Apollo on the list of the top 100 albums. The album is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 and the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2004 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ James Brown, Bruce Tucker: The Godfather of Soul. 1988, p. 132 f.
- ↑ James Brown, Bruce Tucker: The Godfather of Soul. 1988, p. 133.
- ↑ James Brown, Bruce Tucker: The Godfather of Soul. 1988, p. 138.
- ↑ RollingStone Magazine on James Brown
- ↑ Review by Rob Bowman on Allmusic (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ Review by Gaylord Fields on Rolling Stone (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ Review by Josef Gasteiger on Laut.de (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on New Musical Express (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s on Pitchfork (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ All-TIME 100 Albums on Time (accessed December 10, 2019)
- ↑ GRAMMY Hall Of Fame on Grammy
- ↑ Complete National Recording Registry Listing on Library of Congress
Web links
- Live at the Apollo on Allmusic (English)