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Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual, emotional, and social journey played out over one night on the stage of a sweaty Miami club, as Cooke made music that encapsulated everything he had ever cut, channeling forces that would soon birth A Change is Gonna Come, the most important soul song ever written. This book covers Cooke's days with the Soul Stirrers, the gospel unit that was inventing a strand of soul in the 1950s, and continues on to his string of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more about this complex man and the complex music he was always fashioning. A writer and an agent of social change, he absorbed the teachings of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan while reconciling his own identity and what fans expected of him. Fleming explores how this

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Fleming’s ability to think historically, musicologically and even autobiographically allows him to tease out some of the depths of the recording. * Spectrum Culture *

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1. The Man Who Went 2. Soul Rest, Soul Launch 3. A Little Night Music 4. Under the Trees and Over in Overtown 5. Circle Sounds 6. Promissory Party

Sam Cookes Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
      Published 4 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781501355547
      978-1501355547
      ISBN-10 1501355546
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual, emotional, and social journey played out over one night on the stage of a sweaty Miami club, as Cooke made music that encapsulated everything he had ever cut, channeling forces that would soon birth A Change is Gonna Come, the most important soul song ever written. This book covers Cooke's days with the Soul Stirrers, the gospel unit that was inventing a strand of soul in the 1950s, and continues on to his string of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more about this complex man and the complex music he was always fashioning. A writer and an agent of social change, he absorbed the teachings of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan while reconciling his own identity and what fans expected of him. Fleming explores how this

      Trade Review
      Fleming’s ability to think historically, musicologically and even autobiographically allows him to tease out some of the depths of the recording. * Spectrum Culture *

      Table of Contents
      1. The Man Who Went 2. Soul Rest, Soul Launch 3. A Little Night Music 4. Under the Trees and Over in Overtown 5. Circle Sounds 6. Promissory Party

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