''Live at the Garden'' is a 1967

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and

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. It was recorded on January 14, 1967 in the middle of a ten-day engagement at the

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- Brown's first at an upscale

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. Like most of Brown's live albums,

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bed crowd noise was added to the original recording for its LP release. It included one new song, " Let Yourself Go", which was recorded after hours at the casino; it appeared on the album disguised as a live recording. Although ''Live at the Garden'' peaked at #41 on the ''Billboard'' album chart, it came to be overshadowed in Brown's catalog by his next live album, ''

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'', recorded later the same year and released in 1968. In 2009

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released a 2-CD Expanded Edition of ''Live at the Garden''. In addition to the contents of the original LP, it included additional, overdub-free live recordings from Brown's Latin Casino engagement, along with the "Let Yourself Go" recording session.Leeds, Alan, and Harry Weinger (2009). ''Live at the Garden Expanded Edition''

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New York: PolyGram Records. Because Flames member Lloyd Stallworth had left the group during 1966, The Famous Flames lineup on this 1967 album consisted of

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, Bobby Bennett , and Brown himself. In 1968, after this live album was recorded,(and after the double album, ''Live at The Apollo, Volume 2''), Byrd and Bennett would also leave, and The Famous Flames were officially disbanded, leaving Brown as a solo act.

Track listing

Original LP

2009 Expanded Edition

References

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