Tracks
- Feel It
- Chain Gang
- Cupid
- Medley: It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons
- Twistin' the Night Away
- Somebody Have Mercy
- Bring It On Home to Me
- Nothing Can Change This Love
- Having a Party
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 is a raw and sexy album. Sam Cooke is irresistible. When he first comes on stage, the crowd is subdued. Then from one song to the next he builds up the sexual tension and by the end of the show he's got them whipped into a frenzy and ready to go home to let their sexual urges take over.
The style of music is something that hasn't been encountered on the 1001 albums list yet. Most of the songs have a slow groove with either Sam singing or a saxophone playing. There's certainly a relation to the blues with the groove. Anyway, it's hypnotic, seductive and fun.
This album instantly became one of my favorites when I first heard it. It's a perfect album to put on when you've had a bad day, but it's also a prefect album to put when you've had a great day. Chain Gang, Cupid and the last half of the album: Twistin' the Night Away, Somebody Have Mercy, Bring It On Home to Me, Nothing Can Change This Love and Having a Party are amazing. Feel It and the It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons are great too. What a great album.
★★★★★★★★★★
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