Live at the Apollo
James Brown
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Live at the Apollo by James Brown ranked # 24 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums list.
This document of Brown's prowess onstage may be the greatest live album ever recorded. From the breathless buildup of the spoken intro through terse,
sweat-soaked early hits such as "Try Me" and "Think" into eleven epic minutes of the raw ballad "Lost Someone," climaxing with a frenzied nine-song
medley and ending with "Night Train," Live at the Apollo is pure, uncut soul.
And it almost didn't happen. Brown defied King Records label boss Syd
Nathan's opposition to a live album by arranging to record a show himself - on October 24th, 1962, the last date in a run at Harlem's Apollo Theater.
His intuition proved correct; Live at the Apollo - the first of four albums Brown recorded there - charted for sixty-six weeks. - Rolling Stone
Track Listing
- Introduction To James Brown
- I'll Go Crazy
- Try Me
- Think
- I Don't Mind
- Lost Someone
- Medley: Please, Please, Please/You've Got The Power/I Found Someone/Why Do You Do Me/I Want You So Bad/I Love You So Bad/I Love You, Yes I Do/Strange Things Happen/Bewildered/Please, Please, Please
- Night Train
- Think
- Medley: I Found Someone/Why Do You Do Me/I Want You So Bad
- Lost Someone
- I'll Go Crazy
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