Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
June 1985, RCA
1. "Feel It" – 3:46
2. "Chain Gang" – 3:11
3. "Cupid" – 2:46
4. "Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons" – 5:11
5. "Twistin' the Night Away" – 4:19
6. "Somebody Have Mercy" – 4:45
7. "Bring It On Home to Me" – 5:37
8. "Nothing Can Change This Love" – 3:45
9. "Having a Party"– 4:09
RESULTS
Rate: 7/10
Best Song: Chain Gang
Worst Song: Having a Party
Comments
Sam Cooke can sing.
This Album was my second "Live" Album, the other by B.B. King. It's pretty incredible to see how people can truly captivate and move an audience to their bidding, and Cooke did it flawlessly.
The music is Soul, with Rhythm and Blues thrown in here and there.
Cooke demonstrates the vibrato (Don't read that wrong) and harmony of gospel music, but bends and molds it to the use of his own genre.
You also have to remember the time period of 1963. Yes, Cooke played in a primarily black community, but it was still pretty risky for a black man to go on-stage in and around this time period, especially with the MLK campaign trending on in the background.
But Sam Cooke did it, and he destroyed it. I was just not into the music itself, although the presence that the Album gives off is tremendous.
Play it again, Sam.
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