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Sam Cooke Discography
The discography of Sam Cooke, an American singer and songwriter, consists of fourteen studio albums (including one collaborative album and two notable posthumous releases), two live albums, 49 singles, 13 compilations and 2 box sets. Over the course of his eight-year career, Cooke placed 29 singles in the Top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Singles chart. He also placed 20 singles in the Top Ten of '' Billboard'' R&B chart, Black Singles chart. Between 1957 and 1960, Sam Cooke's records were produced on the Keen label. From 1960 through 1966, they were produced on the RCA label. Ownership of Cooke's material is split between RCA (roughly 1958–1963) and ABKCO (post-1963), with each label releasing their own compilations and rarely cross-licensing (''The Man and His Music'' and '' Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964'' being the two exceptions). As a result, few of Cooke's original albums saw individual release on the medium of compact disc, and, consequently, digital distribution, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer and songwriter. Considered to be a pioneer and one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the " King of Soul" for his distinctive vocals, notable contributions to the genre and significance in popular music. Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi and later relocated to Chicago with his family at a young age, where he began singing as a child and joined the Soul Stirrers as lead singer in the 1950s. Going solo in 1957, Cooke released a string of hit songs, including "You Send Me", " A Change Is Gonna Come", "Cupid", " Wonderful World", " Chain Gang", "Twistin' the Night Away", " Bring It On Home to Me", and "Good Times". During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Pop Singles chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top Ten of ''Billboard'' Black Singles chart. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Cooke (album)
''Sam Cooke'' is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released on Keen Records in early 1958. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra. Track listing ;Side 1 # "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke, originally credited to L.C. Cook) – 2:41 # "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 2:31 # " Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:30 # "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:39 # " Moonlight in Vermont" ( John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:40 # "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 2:57 ;Side 2 #" Summertime" ( DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25 # " Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58 # " Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05 # " The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17 # " So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38 # "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16 # "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Cooke At The Copa
''Sam Cooke at the Copa'' is a live album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The album was released in 1964 in the United States by RCA Victor. It was Cooke's only live album to be released during his lifetime; ''Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963'', although recorded earlier, was not released until 1985. ''Copa'' was reissued in 2003, with remastered sound. The album peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. Production The album was recorded during a two-week stand in July 1964. The shows during the 1964 engagement were well received, in contrast to a show Cooke performed at the Copa in 1958. Staying away from the Copa—and from many "white" clubs—for years, Cooke was inspired to return after watching Nat King Cole go over well there. Cooke chose to perform a set heavier on standards and show tunes. ''Sam Cooke at the Copa'' was produced by Al Schmitt. It was recorded on 3 tracks, and was engineered by Bernard Keville. Critical reception AllMusic wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Try A Little Love
''Try a Little Love'' is the second posthumous studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Sammy Davis Jr. composed the liner notes. Track listing Side one # "Try a Little Love" ( J.W. Alexander, Sam Cooke) # "Don't Cry on My Shoulder" (Pat Kennedy, Turk Prujan) # "Bridge of Tears" (J.W. Alexander) # "I Fall in Love Every Day" (Jimmy Clark) # "You're Always on My Mind" (James W. Alexander) # "Almost in Your Arms" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Sam Cooke) Side two # "When a Boy Falls in Love" (Clinton Levert, Sam Cooke) # " To Each His Own" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) # " Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) # " The Gypsy" ( Billy Reid) # "The Little Things You Do" (J.W. Alexander) # "You Send Me" (L.C. Cook) Notes * Tracks 1-3, 7 & 8 are unreleased. * Track 4 was the B-side to "Chain Gang" in 1960. * Track 5 is from ''My Kind of Blues'' (1961). * Track 6 was the B-side to "Win Your Love for Me" in 1958. * Tracks 9 & 12 are from ''Sam Cooke'' (1958)''.'' * Track 10 is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shake (Sam Cooke Album)
''Shake'' is the first posthumous studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Two years after its release, the melody and arrangement from "Yeah Man," one of the tracks from the album, was plagiarized by Arthur Conley and Otis Redding for their own song "Sweet Soul Music," which became a major hit for Conley. Cooke's estate eventually sued Conley and Redding and received songwriting credit and a settlement. Track listing All tracks composed by Sam Cooke; except where indicated Side one # "Shake" – 2:42 # "Yeah Man" – 2:32 # "Win Your Love for Me" (L.C. Cook) – 2:20 # "Love You Most of All" (Barbara Campbell) – 2:19 # "Meet Me at Mary's Place" – 2:40 # "It's Got the Whole World Shakin'" – 2:42 Side two # " A Change Is Gonna Come" – 2:36 # "I'm in the Mood for Love" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 3:23 # "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" (James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, Russ Morgan) – 2:56 # "Comes Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ain't That Good News (album)
''Ain't That Good News'' is the eleventh and final studio album by American R&B and soul singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released mid-February 1964, on RCA Victor Records, allmusic: Overview – ''Ain't That Good News'' All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on October 12, 2008. in both mono and stereo, LPM 2899 and LSP 2899.Hugo, Luigi (2003), p. 1. Recording sessions for the album took place at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World Studio in February (track 5) and December 1963 (tracks 1, 3, 11, 12) and January 1964 (tracks 2 and 6 to 10). The cover photo was taken by American photographer Wallace Seawell. ''Ain't That Good News'' was the final studio album to be issued during Cooke's lifetime, before his death at the age of 33. With the exception of "Another Saturday Night", which had been released as a single early in the previous year, ''Ain't That Good News'' comprised the first material that Cooke had recorded in the six months following the drowning death of his 18-month-old son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Beat (Sam Cooke Album)
''Night Beat'' is the tenth studio album by American singer Sam Cooke, released in August 1963 by RCA Victor. The album title originated from late-night recording sessions by Cooke and a quartet of studio musicians in February 1963. It has been featured in "best-of" lists by contemporary music critics and regarded as one of Cooke's best. Background Cooke and his musicians—pianist Ray Johnson, organist Billy Preston (who was 16 at the time of recording), lead guitarist Barney Kessel, alternating drummers Hal Blaine and Ed Hall, bassist Cliff Hils and Clif White, and René Hall on rhythm guitar—cut ''Night Beat'' in three days during late-night recording sessions at RCA Victor Studios in Hollywood in February 1963. "I Lost Everything", "Get Yourself Another Fool" and "Trouble Blues" were laid down on February 22, with the group returning, sans Kessel, the following day to record "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen", "Mean Old World", "Little Red Rooster" and "Laughin' and Clow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twistin' The Night Away (album)
''Twistin' the Night Away'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in April 1962 in the United States by RCA Victor. ''Twistin' the Night Away'' primarily capitalizes on the twist phenomenon and as a result became one of Cooke's most successful LPs, becoming his second to chart and creating a string of chart successes. ''Twistin' the Night Away'' peaked at number 74 on ''Billboard'' ''Top LPs'' chart, while the single of the same name charted higher at number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Background ''Twistin' the Night Away'' originated during the recording team's move to RCA Victor's Hollywood studios. Sammy Lowe, conductor of Cooke's past two albums, brought aboard René Hall, an arranger he had worked with in their days at Keen Records. Hall in turn booked horn players Plas Johnson, Jackie Kelso and Jewell Grant "to spike up what was effectively a return to former glories." Reception Bruce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Kind Of Blues (Sam Cooke Album)
''My Kind of Blues'' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Record producer by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor. The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of ''The RCA Albums Collection''. Track listing All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe. Side one # "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" ( Bob Russell, Duke Ellington) – 3:10 # " Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:55 # "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:20 # "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:25 # " But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:29 # " Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:05 Side two # " I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David) – 3:10 # " Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 3:00 # "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swing Low (album)
''Swing Low'', also known as ''Sam Cooke'', is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in February 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor. The album includes the hit single "Chain Gang". The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of ''The RCA Albums Collection''. Track listing Side one # "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional) – 3:05 # "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Hellerman, Marshall Barer) – 4:05 # "They Call the Wind Maria" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:54 # "Twilight on the Trail" (Sidney D. Mitchell, Louis Alter) – 3:10 # "If I Had You" (Sam Cooke, James W. Alexander) – 2:20 # "Chain Gang" (Cooke) – 2:32 Side two # "Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 3:10 # "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (Stephen Foster) – 3:44 # "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Haynes Bayly) – 3:00 # "Pray" (Johnnie Taylor) – 2:10 # "You Belong to M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hits Of The 50's
''Hits of the 50's'' is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in August 1960 by RCA Victor. ''Hits of the 50's'' consists of Cooke's versions of songs originally sung by such artists as Nat King Cole, Frankie Avalon, and Doris Day. The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of ''The RCA Albums Collection''. Background ''Hits of the 50's'' was recorded only two weeks following the sessions that produced ''Cooke's Tour'' in March 1960, over a month prior to the release of that album. The bulk of the album was recorded on March 23, 1960, with the remaining numbers—"The Great Pretender", "You, You, You", "The Wayward Wind", "Cry", and "Venus"—being recorded the following day. Many of the same musicians who recorded on ''Cooke's Tour'' returned for ''Hits of the 50's''. Track listing All songs arranged and conducted by Glen Osser. Side one # "Hey There" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) – 2:32 # "Mona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Victor
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment after the 2004 merger of BMG and Sony; it was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, making it the second-oldest record label in American history, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
