Sam Cooke - One Night Stand: Live at the Harlem Square Club 63
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Free Music Review: Soulful&Classic Live Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Sam Cooke is One of My All time Favorite Artists.this Re-mastering of this Classic Album truly takes you on a soulful Journey.you can hear all the details from the Instrumentation to the Power&Soul of Sam Cooke's vocals. you feel his Energy all throughout this Album.when you hear a Album like this you then understand why He has meant so much to so many People all over the Music World.Free Music Review: Where is the freakin' audience!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This remastering does a good job of accentuating the instruments and bringing the vocal more foreground but the audience is almost absent from this recording. If you want to hear the true power of this concert in all its glory buy the original copy.Free Music Review: I LOVE THIS ALBUM 5 Stars
WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT THIS ALBUM BUT SIMPLY "I LOVE IT" I A BIG FAN OF SAM COOKE AND I JUST LOVE HEARING HIM LIVE. THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM.Free Music Review: Landmark 1963 recording of the definitive soul singer
Hit: 4 Stars
Rod Stewart calls this disc "one of my favorite live recordings of all time". Critics have been raving about it for years. And so when RCA released a completely redesigned and remastered version of this performance in the Fall of 2005 I simply could not resist. "One Night Stand!: Sam Cooke Live At The Harlam Square Club" delivers one of the most memorable "live" performances I have ever heard.
When a good friend of my introduced to me to the earlier 1990 RCA release of this concert I was simply blown away. It was not at all what I expected. I had only seen a couple of black and white clips of Sam Cooke performing on network TV shows in the late 50's and early 1960's. As I recall he appeared to be rather stiff and altogether forgettable. "Live At The Harlem Square Club" totally changed my perception of Sam Cooke as a performer. When this concert was recorded in 1963, Sam was in the midst of a tour with the legendary and dynamic saxophone player King Curtis. In fact, you can hear King Curtis' handiwork throughout this performance. And Oh Boy!!!
Sam Cooke gives one of the most memorable vocal performances you will ever hear! Although this performance was relatively short (just 38 minutes)you will marvel at his vocal prowess on tunes like "For Sentimental Reasons", "Bring It On Home To Me" and his 1962 hit "Nothing Can Change This Love". For me the highlight of this disc is Sam's incredibly energetic rendition of "Twistin' The Night Away". And he wraps it all up with an all-time favorite "Having A Party". Listen for the remarkable interaction between artist and audience that is readily apparent throughout this disc. That sort of intimacy has been lost in this era of arena and stadium concerts.
"One Night Stand!: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club" comes in a beautifully designed package that includes a generous 14 pages of liner notes by Peter Guralnick who is a noted authority on Sam Cooke. In fact, Peter has recently written a biography of Sam entitled "Dream Boogie: The Biography of Sam Cooke." The fact that the disc is a mere 38 minutes long is a bit of a drawback as fans lament the fact that so many of Sam's great hits were not included in the performance. Very frustrating! Also, I have noted that a few of the other reviewers are critical of the remastering job. I must admit that I was not overly impressed with the remastering but since I do not own the earlier incarnation of this one I have nothing to compare it to. In any event it appears that the 1990 version is no longer available. Suffice to say you will certainly not be dissappointed with the music offered here. It is a glimpse of a major talent who died all too soon under mysterious circumstances from a gunshot wound in 1964.
An essential disc. Highly recommended!
Free Music Review: Inspired Cooke in Front of an Enthusiastic Audience
Hit: 4 Stars
If you only know Sam Cooke from pop songs like "Only Sixteen" or "Wonderful World" this CD will be something of a surprise. Here we meet Sam Cooke the live soul performer in front of an enthusiastic audience, who seems to know his song-catalogue by heart.
Cooke himself is in top-form and leaves himself no breaks between the songs. Vocally he's rawer than we usually meet him on his studio-recordings, but just as brilliant and convincing. He is backed by a competent band, and the whole show is just breath-taking. Highlight for me is hearing the audience singing along on "For Sentimental Reasons". Note that compared to the other live album available with Sam Cooke, this album contains almost entirely Cooke originals. Recommended for fans of atmospheric live-recordings. If you prefer the more polished sounding Cooke - this probably won't be the right buy.