Sam Cooke - One Night Stand: Live at the Harlem Square Club 63
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Free Music Review: My review of One Night Stand: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
Hit: 4 Stars
I also have the cd One Night Stand : Sam Cooke Live at The Harlem Square Club. It is a GREAT cd ! However the quality of the recording is not very good ! I still like it !!! It also seems that Sam put more emotion into this performance than I have heard him do before . His voice also sounds more expressive to me on this cd. However I had heard him sing in the past but, have only recently become a actual fan of his !! I gi gave it 4 stars because of the quality of the recording !!!Free Music Review: Ruining the sound away
Hit: 3 Stars
Rca/BMG is a strange company - they earned billions of dollars on Elvis and they still screwed almost all Elvis album reisuess with bad mixing and mastering. So, why would Sam Cooke be an exeption?
Sound on this cd causes me a headache. A very good and exciting show of one of the greatest singers in popular music history unfortunately is very painfull to listen to.
Bad mix, that's all - there is so many high level tones that i have to put the treble button on my reciever to zero. Up front in the mix are very, very loud cymbals (my god, it's noisy), Sam voice and flat bass. Audience, sax, gitars? Forget it..
People at RCA/BMG are without any musical ear or they are completely deaf. Or maybe they just don't care.
Free Music Review: You made my mouth water!
Hit: 3 Stars
To Martijn Buisman and/or Rolf Baumgartel:
Could you please indicate the complete bar-code/UPC of the "original" CD release you mention? (because I can't find it on Amazon nor anywhere else)
Thanks in advance.
Free Music Review: A lesson in how to ruin a great album
Hit: 2 Stars
I became an even bigger fan of Sam Cooke fan than I already was because of his live album 'At The Harlem Square Club' because it showed him as he really was. It is more a gospel album but with secular tunes. It's one of the few albums that after five years I still enjoy listening to and I was delighted to read that there was a new reissue. However, it is a dissappointment.
Let's start with the reasons why this edition is better: first of all the artwork is very nice. A new front, more text and one of those neat cardboard covers, not the plastic case. The CD itself also looks great, as an old record. It also has a longer introduction and the final song 'Having A Party' has two minutes added. The sound does sound clearer, especially the guitars.
Here are the reasons why should look for the older edition
1. somehow the audience is mixed to the back. One thing what makes this album so great is the old gospel style call and answer with the audience, however they are sometimes hardly noticable on Feel It and Chain Gang.
2. Bring It On Home To Me in this live version is in my view the best Sam recording of all time. What especially makes it so great is the long 2 minute introduction where he tells the audience a story with Clif White's shivering guitar on the background. As a preacher he brings the audience slowly to an orgasmic highpoint when the opening notes of the Bring it on Home riff are being played. As in point number 1 unfortunately you can hardly hear the audience answer his pleas. However, it's now impossible to listen to these two things combined. The intro is now the outro of the preceding song and the song itself starts with the opening notes.
3. On the 'original' edition a saxophone can really be heard, I only hear it now because I know it's there.
So please look for the original CD! it's also part of the Man Who Invented Soul Box but there is suffers from the same bad mixing as here. So get the original and put in this case.
I can't believe they released this in this way. I am still hoping they can find a way to combine the two version so we can truely have a great album.
Free Music Review: Terrible remix
Hit: 2 Stars
This is obviously a classic live recording, and of course Sam Cooke sounds great. But I don't understand all the great reviews. In case no one noticed, King Curtis is leading the band, and he's been effectively erased from this cd. The extra chatter is nice, but the music is what counts. Search out a copy of the original cd release; the artwork is lousy, but you can actually hear the horns.