Sam Cooke - One Night Stand! Live At The Harlem Square Club (1963) '2005

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Soul Twist/Introduction (1:23)
02. Feel It (Don't Fight It) (2:55)
03. Chain Gang (3:11)
04. Cupid (2:45)
05. Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons (5:12)
06. Twistin' the Night Away (5:18)
07. Somebody Have Mercy (6:18)
08. Bring It on Home to Me (4:08)
09. Nothing Can Change This Love (2:40)
10. Having a Party (5:03) 

personnel : 

Bass – Jimmy Lewis 
Drums – Albert "June" Gardner
Guitar – Clifton White, Cornell Dupree
Piano – George Stubbs
Saxophone – King Curtis, Tate Houston
Vocals – Sam Cooke

Not only is this one of the greatest live soul albums ever released, it also
reveals a rougher, rawer, and more immediate side to Sam Cooke that his singles
only hinted at, good as they were. Working with a merged band that included
guitarist Cliff White and drummer Albert "June" Gardner from Cooke's regular
touring outfit and saxophonist King Curtis and his band, Cooke brings a gospel
fervor to these whirlwind versions, which are fiery, emotionally direct, and hit
with uncommon power. Every track burns with an insistent, urgent feel, and
although Cooke practically defines melisma on his single releases, here he
reaches past that into deeper territory that finds him almost literally shoving
and pushing each song forward with shouts, asides, and spoken interactions with
the audience, which becomes as much a part of this set as any bandmember. "Chain
Gang" is stripped down to a raw nerve, "Twistin' the Night Away" explodes out of
the gate like a runaway rocket, and Curtis' sax breaks on "Somebody Have Mercy"
make it sound like the saxophone was invented for this one song alone.
Throughout Cooke's voice is a raspy laser that makes it obvious what Rod Stewart
picked up from this recording, and it is impossible not to hear Cooke's voice
looming behind Stewart's once you've heard this amazing live set. Although
recorded January 12, 1963, at the Harlem Square Club in Miami in 1963, RCA
didn't release it as an album until 1985. The set was remixed from the original
first generation three-track tape for 2000's The Man Who Invented Soul box, and
while the music (and Cooke's vocals in particular) sounded much cleaner, much of
the crowd noise from the 1985 mixes was toned down, robbing the recording of
some of its claustrophobic, frenzied power. The mix used here seems to more or
less split the difference, but the crucial key is and was always Cooke's vocals,
and while he was a marvelously smooth, versatile, and urbane singer on his
official pop recordings, here he explodes into one of the finest sets of raw
secular gospel ever captured on tape. It is essential listening in any version.~
Steve Leggett
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