Live at the Apollo

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James Brown

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1 year, 7 months ago at Oct 27 18:48

Alan Bryan

One of the 5 Best Live Albums ever made and one of the first ones ever issued.

The Greatest.

1 year, 5 months ago at Jan 16 12:37

kswiss442

This was the first ever album recorded live in this country.Classic James Brown with all the band members that came of their own during and after the seventies. Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Bobby Byrd, The MC.From their beginnings. Excellent Album.

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Description: Live At The Apollo is a live album by James Brown and The Famous Flames, recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and released in 1963. 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 ... (more)

Manufacturer : Polydor
Release date : 31 May 1963
Number of discs : 1
EAN: 0602498613702 UPC: 602498613702

Live (2), Soul (2), Funk (1), 1963 (1), Bought 2008 (1), American (1), 1962 (1), Album (1)

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Live albums that blow the originals away (22 music items)

" There is quite some history in this album. It's regarded as James Brown's possible best album, and that's not for no reason at all. His manager didn't want him to release a live album as he didn't see it as a money maker with no new songs, but he'd be proven wrong with the release. When you hear all those stories about James Brown being the hardest working man in show business or how he was called Mr. Dynamite, or my favorite one, how James Brown would fine his musicians for messing up and mis"

kswiss442 posted a review 1 year, 5 months ago

The Greatest.

“This was the first ever album recorded live in this country.Classic James Brown with all the band members that came of their own during and after the seventies. Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Bobby Byrd, The MC.From their beginnings. Excellent Album.” read more

Alan Bryan posted a review 1 year, 7 months ago

“One of the 5 Best Live Albums ever made and one of the first ones ever issued.” read more

JxSxPx added this to a list 3 years, 4 months ago

RS 500: Part 1 (100 music items)

""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 r"

JxSxPx added this to a list 3 years, 8 months ago

TIME's 100 Greatest Albums (100 music items)

"“In 1962, James Brown was known, but not—owwwww!—well known. Frustrated at his inability to break through, the ever-savvy J.B. asked his label to record one of his acclaimed live shows and release it as an album. When the label refused, Brown bankrolled the recording himself. "Are you ready for star time?" the emcee asks the Apollo crowd on the night of October 24, and for the next 40 minutes Brown puts on a flawless show of dynamism that lost nothing in the transfer to vinyl. Only a few t"