Live at the Apollo (1963 album)

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Live At The Apollo (1963)
Live At The Apollo (1963) cover
Live album by James Brown
Released January 1963
Recorded 24 October 1962
Genre R&B
Length 31:31

(40:47 with bonus tracks)
Label King (reissued on Polydor)
Producer(s) James Brown (original),

Harry Weinger (reissue)
Professional reviews

Original Album:

Expanded Edition:
James Brown chronology
Tour the U.S.A.
(1962)		 Live at the Apollo [1963]
(1963)		 Prisoner of Love (King)
(1963)


Live At The Apollo is a live album by James Brown, recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and released in 1963 (see 1963 in music).

Live at the Apollo was recorded on the night of October 24, 1962 at Brown's own expense. His label, King Records, originally opposed releasing the album, believing that a live album featuring no new songs would not be profitable. The label finally relented under pressure from Brown and his manager Bud Hobgood. (It was disagreements such as this that moved Brown to begin recording for the Smash record label the following year in violation of his contract with King.[1]) To King's surprise, Live at the Apollo was an amazingly rapid seller. It spent 66 weeks on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, peaking at #2. Many record stores, especially in the southeast U. S., found themselves unable to keep up with the demand for the product, eventually ordering several cases at a time. R&B disc jockeys often would play side 1 in its entirety, pausing (usually to insert commercials) only to return to play side 2 in full as well. The side break occurred in the middle of the long track "Lost Someone."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 24 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Brown went on to record several more albums at the Apollo over the course of his career, including 1968's Live at the Apollo, Vol. II (King), 1971's Revolution of the Mind: Recorded Live at the Apollo, Vol. III (Polydor) and Live at the Apollo 1995 (Scotti Bros.).

Contents

[edit] CD reissues

Despite its renown and historical significance, Live at the Apollo was not reissued on CD until 1990 because the original master recordings had been misplaced and the available copies were not of a high enough quality for a satisfactory CD release. The master tapes were recovered in late 1989. A Deluxe Edition of the album featuring remastered sound and several alternate mixes was released in 2004.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Introduction To James Brown (by Fats Gonder)
  2. "I’ll Go Crazy"
  3. "Try Me"
  4. "Think"
  5. "I Don’t Mind"
  6. "Lost Someone"
  7. 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, Yes I Do"/"Strange Things Happen"/"Bewildered"/"Please, Please, Please"
  8. "Night Train"
  9. "Think" (Single Mix, Radio Promo Version)
  10. Medley: "I Found Someone"/"Why Do You Do Me"/"I Want You So Bad" (Single Mix)
  11. "Lost Someone" (Single Mix)
  12. "I’ll Go Crazy" (Single Mix)

(9-12 are bonus tracks on 2004 Deluxe Edition)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ James Brown Biography. allmusic. Retrieved on November 22, 2006.

[edit] External links

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