Tracks
- Introduction to James Brown "Mr. Dynamite" / Theme
- I'll Go Crazy
- Try Me
- Think
- I Don’t Mind
- Lost Someone
- Medley: Please, Please, Please/You’ve Got The Power/I Found Someone/Why Do You Do Me/I Want You So Bad/I Love You, Yes I Do/Strange Things Happen/Bewildered/Please, Please, Please
- Night Train
James Brown 'Live' at the Apollo is an uneven album. Most of the songs are between two and three minutes long, but Lost Someone and the medley are over ten and six minutes long, respectively. The total album is a little over a half hour long, so those two songs take up more than half the album.
Despite the imbalance, the music is really exciting and fun. James Brown does a great job winning over the crowd. This recording captures the crowd's response well. If it hadn't, Lost Someone and the medley and, subsequently, the whole album would have fallen flat. It's quite clear that James Brown can win over a crowd just as well as Sam Cooke can.
It's a very good album, but after listening to it a few times Lost Someone loses its freshness and becomes quite tedious. It's certainly one of the best songs on the album; the others being I'll Go Crazy, Think and the medley.
★★★★★★★★☆☆
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