Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963
by Sam Cooke
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Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 is ranked 2nd best out of 28 albums by Sam Cooke on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sam Cooke is Night Beat which is ranked number 1332 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,288.
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Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 11/17/2025 08:18 | Exist-en-ciel | 6,112 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/19/2025 15:31 | AledJames | 1,460 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 16:44 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,731 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2025 07:34 |  CharlieBarley | 3,248 | 81/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2024 15:22 | davidleewrong | 2,318 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.0/100, a mean average of 81.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.
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VictorVale 08/03/2021 21:19 | #272228
Gigante demais!
favorite live album.
oldies. a few goodies
Medelsvensson 11/24/2019 11:45 | #245129
IT AIN’T THAT LEUKEMIA
CharlieBarley 08/05/2019 07:40 | #240774
Awesome stuff
Graeme2 02/10/2018 23:18 | #207556
Raw, no frills, plenty thrills. This is how you present a live record. No added bullshit like overdubs or even worse, added crowd noise. Of course it helps that the music is incredible and Cooke gives you goosebumps. Life affirming stuff. The only down is its taken me so long to listen to this. My dad had a wonderful compilation tape of all the wonderfull 50s and early 60s 45s that his mate made and I loved the Cooke stuff on there. It snapped though. I think he needs to hear this.
planetneutral 01/08/2018 00:10 | #204945
High energy, high quality.
When I listen to this, everything is right in the world.
Other comments have said it well. Get caught up in Cooke's mighty wave soulful sweat. Sometimes great music leaves you stanky.
One of the best live records ever! Like no other this album manages to capture the raw, sweaty, electrifying atmosphere of a gig in a small venue. It's just stunning. But: you absolutely have to listen to the original 1985 release - as the remix of 2005 re-release eclipses most of these atmospheric aspects.
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