James Brown's Live at the Apollo (33 1/3)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826415725 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great read I learned more about 1962, as well as what happened before and during James Brown's performance at the Apollo. Love it.. S. Jones said Three Stars. Get On Up!!. "An "on the good foot" storytelling of a classic live recording" according to Siriam. A simple but effective running of the history, with comments on the individual recordings, of the songs that appear on James Browns first major album hit, "Live at the Apollo" recorded in October 1962 alongside the then occurring critical world event of the Cuban Missile Crisis, makes for an effective time capsule telling by Douglas Wolk of the making of this
All rights reserved. Mike TribbyCopyright © American Library Association. The show recorded was Brown's twenty-fourth that week--testimony in itself that he was indeed, as his publicity claimed, "the hardest working man in show business." Wolk neatly assesses the record's context and its function as the fuel for Brown's ascent to the pop stratosphere. With a series of hits on the R&B charts to his credit, he was poised to move in on the pop charts. Taped in fall 1962 at the venerable, and even legendary, showcase for black performers, the Apollo Theater of Harlem, the recording captured Brown when he was still something of an underground phenomenon. From Booklist James Brown's Live at the Apollo is famed as the best concert recording of his raw showmanship
In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem: an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. Most of the audience thought there was a good chance they'd be dead within the week.. The walls behind them were a dark crimson; the balconies were decorated with the laurel wreaths that are the emblem of Apollo the god, recalling Daphne, who became a laurel tree to escape his lust. In great detail, Wolk pieces together what took place (and what was recorded) that night, and illustrates beautifully the enduring power of one of James Brown's - and popular music's - defining moments: Live at the Apollo.EXCERPTStanding on the stage of the Apollo at a sold-out show on the night of October 24, 1962, screaming, James Brown would have looked out and seen