In a retrospective article for Rolling Stone, music critic Robert Christgau said that Brown was a "striking but more conventional performer" in the show than on his contemporary studio recordings and wrote of the album: The side break occurred in the middle of the long track " Lost Someone". R&B DJs often would play side 1 in its entirety, pausing (usually to insert commercials) only to return to play side 2 in full as well. Many record stores, especially in the southeast US, found themselves unable to keep up with the demand for the product, eventually ordering several cases at a time. It spent 66 weeks on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, peaking at #2. To King's surprise, Live at the Apollo was an amazingly rapid seller. The label finally relented under pressure from Brown and his manager Bud Hobgood. Brown's record label, King Records, originally opposed releasing the album, believing that a live album featuring no new songs would not be profitable. (It wasn't until the CD release of this album, decades later, that The Flames were finally credited for their work on this album).
Although not credited on the album cover or label, Brown's vocal group, The Famous Flames ( Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett, and Lloyd Stallworth), played an important co-starring role in Live at the Apollo, and are included with Brown by MC Fats Gonder in the album's intro. Live at the Apollo was recorded on the night of October 24, 1962, at Brown's own expense. Release and reception Professional ratings Review scores In 1998, this album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked number 25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, and re-ranking at number 65 in a 2020 reboot of the list. In 2000 it was voted number 248 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. The album is included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). Live at the Apollo is the first live album by James Brown and the Famous Flames, recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and released in 1963 by King Records.
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