Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968

Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 is a concert film starring James Brown. Recorded at the Boston Garden by WGBH-TV the night after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it was broadcast live in an effort to quell potential riots in the city. The recording circulated as a bootleg before it was officially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in 2008 as part of the box set I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s.[1] It received a stand-alone release in 2009.[2]

Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968
StarringJames Brown
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • April 5, 1968 (1968-04-05) (television broadcast)
  • August 5, 2008 (2008-08-05) (DVD)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The concert was the subject of the 2008 PBS/VH-1 documentary The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf and a chapter of Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas.

Songs edit

  1. "That's Life"
  2. "Kansas City"
  3. Medley: "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"/"Lost Someone"/"Bewildered"
  4. "Get It Together"
  5. "There Was a Time"
  6. "I Got the Feelin'"
  7. "Try Me"
  8. Medley: "Cold Sweat"/"Ride the Pony"/"Cold Sweat"
  9. "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
  10. "Please, Please, Please"
  11. "I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)"

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Shout! Factory". Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Shout! Factory". Retrieved 30 June 2016.

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