Live at the Apollo [Vinyl]

James Brown | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (July 29, 2008)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 1963
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B0000572BI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,201 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Vinyl pressing of Live At The Apollo by James Brown and The Famous Flames, recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on the night of October 24, 1962 at Brown's own expense and released in 1963. 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 for 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.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Godfather Of Soul At His Prime, September 10, 2008

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UNCLE SOUTH "music tastemaker" (somewhere ,in ga) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Apollo [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

What more can be said of The Godfather Of Soul Live In 1962, but simple
GREATNESS.I have owned this Album for years but not until now in 2008 have I been able to get the true definition of great clarity and sound
superiority on an Audiophile Recording.