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| Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 | |
|---|---|
| Live album by | |
| Released | June 1985 |
| Recorded | January 12, 1963 |
| Venue | Harlem Square Club, Miami, Florida |
| Genre | Soul |
| Length | 37:29 |
| Label | RCA |
| Alternative cover | |
2005 remaster | |
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 is the second live album by the American singer-songwriterSam Cooke. The album was released in June 1985 in the United States by RCA Records. Initially recorded on January 12, 1963 to be released as a live album entitled One Night Stand, the concert at Miami's Harlem Square Club was not released until 1985. RCA Victor, at the time, viewed the album as too gritty and raw and possibly damaging to his pop image, and quietly kept the recordings in their archive.
The album is generally considered among the best live albums by contemporary music critics[1][2], and has been ranked in 'best-of' music lists, including on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[3] Three mixes of the record exist: the 1985 issue, a version included on the 2000 box set The Man Who Invented Soul, and a 2005 remaster from RCA.
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Background[edit]
In 1962, RCA Victor decided it was time for Cooke to record a live album, and a warm January night at the Harlem Square Club in Miami was picked to record. The Harlem Square Club was a small downtown nightspot in Miami's historically African-American neighborhood of Overtown, and was packed with the singer's most devoted fans from his days singing gospel.[4] RCA found the results too loud, raw and raucous — not the Cooke the label was trying to break as an international pop star — and shelved the recordings for over two decades.[4]
In 1985, executive Gregg Geller discovered the tapes and quickly issued Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 that year.[5] 'Sam was what we've come to call a crossover artist: He crossed over from gospel to pop, which was controversial enough in its day. But once he became a pop artist, he had a certain mainstream image to protect,' Geller said in 2013.[4] 'The fact is, when he was out on the road, he was playing to a predominantly, almost exclusively black audience. And he was doing a different kind of show — a much more down-home, down-to-earth, gut-bucket kind of show than what he would do for his pop audience.'[4]
Three mixes of the album exist. The original 1985 mix contains a louder audience response, creating a 'claustrophobic, frenzied power', while the version included on the 2000 box set, The Man Who Invented Soul, turns these elements down, cleaning up Cooke's vocals as well as the music.[6] The 2005 remaster generally splits the difference between these two releases.[6]
Reception[edit]
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | link (2005 reissue) link |
| Blender | Oct. 2005 |
| Mojo | (favorable)[7] |
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 has generally been considered among the best live LPs ever released.[1][8] In the year of its release (1985), it was ranked at number 11 on The Village Voice'sPazz & Jop critics poll, as well as being named number 7 on NME's albums of the year.[9][10] Steve Leggett for AllMusic feels that 'Not only is this one of the greatest live soul albums ever released, it also reveals a rougher, rawer, and more immediate side to Sam Cooke that his singles only hinted at, good as they were [...] the crucial key is and was always Cooke's vocals, and while he was a marvelously smooth, versatile, and urbane singer on his official pop recordings, here he explodes into one of the finest sets of raw secular gospel ever captured on tape. It is essential listening in any version.'[6]
In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 439 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[11] 'Cooke was elegance personified, but he works this Florida club until it's hotter than hell, while sounding like he never breaks a sweat [...] when the crowd sings along with him, it's magic,' said Rolling Stone.[11] The album appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[12]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks composed by Sam Cooke; except where indicated
1985 version[edit]
- 'Feel It' – 3:46
- 'Chain Gang' – 3:11
- 'Cupid' – 2:46
- 'Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons' (Cooke/Deke Watson, William Best) – 5:11
- 'Twistin' the Night Away' – 4:19
- 'Somebody Have Mercy' – 4:45
- 'Bring It On Home to Me' – 5:37
- 'Nothing Can Change This Love' – 3:45
- 'Having a Party' – 4:09
Total Time 37:29
2000 The Man Who Invented Soul version[edit]
- 'Intro/(Don't Fight It) Feel It' – 3:46
- 'Chain Gang' – 3:12
- 'Cupid' – 2:45
- 'It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons' (Cooke/Deke Watson, William Best) – 5:13
- 'Twistin' the Night Away' – 4:17
- 'Somebody Have Mercy' – 7:16
- 'Bring It On Home to Me' – 3:04
- 'Nothin' Can Change This Love' – 3:46
- 'Having a Party' – 5:25
(actually tracks 13 through 21 on the CD)
Total Time 38:44
2005 version[edit]
- 'Soul Twist/Introduction' (Curtis Ousley) – 1:23
- 'Feel It (Don't Fight It)' – 2:54
- 'Chain Gang' – 3:11
- 'Cupid' – 2:44
- 'Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons' (Cooke/Ivory 'Deek' Watson, William 'Pat' Best[13]) – 5:11
- 'Twistin' the Night Away' – 4:18
- 'Somebody Have Mercy' – 6:18
- 'Bring It On Home to Me' – 4:08
- 'Nothing Can Change This Love' – 2:39
- 'Having a Party' – 5:03
Total Time 38:49
Personnel[edit]
All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes.[14]
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References[edit]
- ^ abDolan, John. '50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^Zohair, Hussain (August 18, 2014). 'The 27 Best Live Albums of All Time'. PasteMagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^'500 Greatest Albums of All Time'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^ abcd'A Night Out With Sam Cooke: 'Harlem Square' Turns 50'. NPR. January 12, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
- ^Palmer, Robert (1985-05-15). 'Pop Life'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^ abcSteve Leggett. 'One Night Stand: Sam Cooke'. Allmusic. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
- ^BVB. Review: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963. Mojo. Retrieved on 2010-05-22.
- ^Campbell, Mary (December 24, 1985). 'Benefit Concerts Dominated the 1985 Popular Music Scene'. The Nevada Daily Mail. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
- ^Christgau, Robert. 'Pazz & Jop 1985: Critics Poll'. www.robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^'1985 Best Albums And Tracks Of The Year - NME'. NME. 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
- ^ abWenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone - Special Collectors Issue - The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. ISBN978-7098934196
- ^Dimery, Richard, ed. (2008). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Cassell Illustrated. ISBN1-84403-624-3.
- ^(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
- ^The RCA Albums Collection (liner notes). Sam Cooke. US: RCA Records/Legacy Recordings. 2011. 88697898702.CS1 maint: others (link)
External links[edit]
- Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 at Discogs (list of releases)
Sam Cooke – Sam Cooke At The Copa (1964/2003)
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Recorded July 7th and 8th, 1964, this is quite simply one of the finest soul performances ever captured on tape. Cooke’s golden croon is as versatile and nuanced an instrument as any saxophone or guitar, careening through rapid scalar passages, mournful cries and delicate vibrato. The recording, available for the first time in high res 88.2kHz/24bit, is absolutely astounding – every horn is audible, every drum hit startlingly crisp. This is less a record than it is a supremely recorded all-encompassing experience. An absolutely essential addition to any audiophile collection (or music collection in general), Sam Cooke at the Copa is a document of one of the greatest soul vocalists of all time delivering a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
For decades, Sam Cooke at the Copa was a frustrating record. One of a handful of live albums by any major soul artist of its era, it captured Cooke in excellent voice, and was well-recorded — it just wasn’t really a “soul” album, except perhaps in the tamest possible definition of that term. Playing to an upscale, largely white supper-club audience, in a very conservatively run venue where he had previously failed to impress either patrons or the management, Cooke toned down his performance and chose the safest material with which he could still be comfortable. In place of songs like “Feel It,” “Bring It On Home to Me,” or even “Cupid,” which were part of his usual set, he performed numbers like “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” “Bill Bailey,” and “When I Fall in Love” here. True, his renditions may be the versions of any of those songs that any R&B fan will like best, but they always seemed a poor substitute for what’s not here — not just the songs that he didn’t do, but the intense, sweaty presentation, as much a sermon as a concert, the pounding beat, and the crowd being driven into ever-more frenzied delight. All of that is missing, and for decades fans had to content themselves with the contradiction of a beautifully executed live album featuring what might best be called “Sam Cooke lite” — the release of Live at the Harlem Square Club solved that problem, giving us a real Sam Cooke concert, and one of the great soul albums of all time. In the wake of the latter’s release, Sam Cooke at the Copa became much more valuable as a representative of that other side of Cooke’s sound and career — juxtaposed with “Twistin’ the Night Away” were “Frankie and Johnny,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “Tennessee Waltz,” “This Little Light of Mine” and his performance of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” (the song that inspired his own “A Change Is Gonna Come”), most of which, if he’d done his usual set, most likely wouldn’t exist today in concert versions. By itself, this is still not a representative album, but paired with Live at the Harlem Square Club, it is an irreplaceable document. In June of 2003, Sam Cooke at the Copa was reissued in a brilliant sounding hybrid CD/Super-Audio CD that runs circles around all prior editions of the record.
Tracklist:
01 – Opening Introduction
02 – The Best Things In Life Are Free
03 – Bill Bailey
04 – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
05 – Frankie And Johnny
06 – You Send Me
07 – If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)
08 – When I Fall In Love
09 – Twistin’ The Night Away
10 – Band Introductions
11 – This Little Light Of Mine
12 – Blowin’ In The Wind
13 – Tennessee Waltz
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