I've never seen this described as a great or indispenable soul album and maybe it isn't in comparison to later efforts by the label's big stars or the Motown blockbusters. But to guys like me who are in love with US sixties soul and always dig deep it's a gem. I get early Atlantic label black music right on, recorded live at the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia just as it was 1964 into my Swedish living room fifty years later. It's a kind of greatest hits sampler with live versions of songs of which some later would be part of the white pop/rock scene when covered by others, but here performed by original artists - Drifters "Under The Boardwalk", Vibrations "My Girl Sloopy", Barbara Lynn "(O Baby) We Got A Good Thing Going" and Wilson Pickett "If You Need Me". You also get the one hit wonder Patty & The Emblems "Mixed Up, Shook Up, Girl" and a former B-side from the today almost forgotten group The Carltons - "Can't You Hear The Beat". Audio isn't very good by today's standard, but revealing enough. The audience participates all through by shouting and handclapping and the atmosphere is loaded. Wish I'd been there. First UK issue on Atlantic purple label (ATL 5018). Japan 2012 CD on Wea. Premiere US mono had matt label as shown here and laminated cover, also as stereo (SD-8101). (SÄM*)(FÄV*)(LYBÖ*) (YZÄ*) (ÖXCÅ*) (ÄTHP*) (PÖC*)
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