Reach Up & Touch the Sky: Live [LIVE]

Southside Johnny

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 22, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Island / Mercury
• ASIN: B000001FFF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,558 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm So Anxious

2. Talk to Me

3. All I Want Is Everything

4. Hearts of Stone

5. Trapped Again

6. Why Is Love Such a Sacrifice

7. Restless Heart

8. Vertigo

9. I Don't Want to Go Home

10. Fever

11. Sam Cooke Medley: Only Sixteen/(What A) Wonderful World/You Send Me

12. Bring It on Home

13. Having a Party

14. Back in the U.S.A.

15. Medley: Having a Party, Pt. 2/Roll Out the Barrel

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Edited From the LP, February 17, 2003

By	jekyllnhyde "jekyllnhyde" (NJ) - See all my reviews

As I see it, there are two ways of approaching this review. On the one hand, this CD is a great deal. Lots of great R&B by a great live band for an insanely low price. They tear through their own hits, as well as a great Sam Cooke medley (although I've always considered medleys a bit of a tease), followed by Cooke's "Bring It On Home" & "Having a Party" in their entirety, & finally Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA". On the other hand, as I looked at the set list, I thought I remembered "Stagger Lee" being on the original LP version. How they could edit out "Stagger Lee" (of all tunes), especially a 7+ minute version, is beyond me. As far as I'm concerned, this easily warrants taking a full point off. Bottom Line; If you like great live R&B, you can't go wrong with this. But it could've been so much better!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Paridise it's not but may have to do!, April 18, 2005

By	Obiburner "obiburner" (Bend, OR United States) - See all my reviews

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I love early Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. And the only way to hear them is LIVE. But not on this album. For a really LIVE experience, purchase Live at the Paradise Theatre Boston, Massachusetts December 23, 1978 [LIVE] a seamless recording of one concert, not a mish-mash of different shows, performances, venues, and nights just slapped together with no cohesion like this album. With that said, if you can't find that album at a reasonable price, this one will have to do as for some reason Live at the Paradise is hard to find and people are just plain greedy in pricing this album used on Amazon. If Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes ever come to your town, go see them. They put on a great show and are still touring from time to time and without the high prices of many of todays acts.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reach Up & Touch the Sky: Live [LIVE], June 19, 2004

By	Russ M. Liachoff "russl179" (Matthews, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were/are a band that sounds as good as they did in the `70s; their music is infectious. The horn arrangements are great and really enhance the tunes. My introduction to SJ was this title as an LP (yep, long ago). This album rocks. What a joy to listen to it on CD. You will not go wrong to buy this title. It was a mistake to delete "Stagger Lee," a tune on the album, but deleted on the CD version. Warning!!! Listen to this in your car and you might end up with a speeding ticket! Enjoy.