Lou Rawls || Live at North Sea Jazz Festival || 1995 The Hague

Successfully blending elements of jazz, R&B, soul and even easy-listening into his songs, Lou Rawls was a leading figure in popular music for over fifty years. This concert features highlights from his extraordinary music career.

Lou Rawls was a leading figure in popular music for over fifty years, as well as being one of its most respected and versatile.

Rawls’ early roots were in gospel, as was the case with many of the great soul voices of his generation. Following spells with two of Chicago’s finest gospel groups, The Highway Q.C.’s and The Pilgrim Travelers, his move into secular music - as he branched out into the fields of jazz, R&B, soul and even easy-listening - proved highly successful.

During his heyday period during the latter half of the Sixties and throughout the Seventies he notched up over thirty hit singles and two dozen chart albums.

As a result of his years playing live dates to audiences of all types, Rawls was a truly consummate showman in his later years, as attested by this superb concert performance recorded at the 1995 North Sea Jazz Festival which demonstrates both his extraordinary rapport with his audience and the broad scope of his repertoire.

The featured songs are all proven stage favourites and include all his biggest hits. They range from his moving rendition of the Broadway standard ‘Send In The Clowns’ to up-tempo R&B standards like ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ and ‘Tobacco Road’. In a more soulful vein, they range from the cool groove of ‘You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine’- his biggest career hit - to the wonderful 'Lady Love'.

0:00 Tobacco Road
3:51 Lady Love
7:27 Let Me Good to You
11:13 Since I Met You Baby
14:39 A Lover's Question
17:03 Your Good Thing Is About to End
20:32 Room with a View
23:59 Send in the Clowns
27:55 Hoochie Coochie Man
33:19 You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
37:07 See You When I Get There