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| Artist: Sam Cooke
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 44925
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 5.6 x 0.7
MPN: 078636791128
UPC: 078636791128
EAN: 0078636791128
ASIN: B00004WFM0
Release Date: September 26, 2000
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Disc 1
| • | You Send Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Summertime, Pt. 1 - Sam Cooke, Gershwin, George | | • | For Sentimental Reasons - Sam Cooke, Watson, Deek | | • | Desire Me - Sam Cooke, Culver, Bruce | | • | Lonely Island - Sam Cooke, Ahbez, Eden | | • | You Were Made for Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Win Your Love (For Me) - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Love You Most of All - Sam Cooke, Campbell, Barbara M | | • | Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha - Sam Cooke, Campbell, Barbara M | | • | No One Can Take Your Place - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Only Sixteen - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | With You - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Crazy She Calls Me - Sam Cooke, Russell, Bob | | • | I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - Sam Cooke, Koehler, Ted | | • | Comes Love - Sam Cooke, Brown, Lew | | • | Ain't Nobody's Business - Sam Cooke, Grainger, Percy | | • | Little Things You Do - Sam Cooke, Alexander, James W. | | • | There! I've Said It Again - Sam Cooke, Evans | | • | When I Fall in Love - Sam Cooke, Heyman, Edward | | • | Let's Go Steady Again - Sam Cooke, Alexander, James W. | | • | Wonderful World - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam |
Disc 2
| • | Chain Gang - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | I Belong to Your Heart - Sam Cooke, Sigman, Carl | | • | Teenage Sonata - Sam Cooke, Barry, Jeff | | • | Love Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Sad Mood - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | If I Had You (I'd Be Happy) - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | You Belong to Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Sad Mood - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Tenderness - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On - Sam Cooke, Alfred, Roy | | • | Hold On - Sam Cooke, Berry, John [Doo Wo | | • | Cupid - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Tenderness - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Sam Cooke, Russell, Bob | | • | Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Sam Cooke, Cox, James | | • | Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Sam Cooke, Warfield, Charles | | • | Trouble in Mind - Sam Cooke, Jones, Richard [1] | | • | Out in the Cold Again - Sam Cooke, Koehler, Ted | | • | Exactly Like You - Sam Cooke, Fields, Dorothy | | • | Since I Met You Baby - Sam Cooke, Hunter, Ivory Joe | | • | I'm Just a Lucky So and So - Sam Cooke, David, Mack | | • | But Not for Me - Sam Cooke, Gershwin, Ira | | • | You're Always on My Mind - Sam Cooke, Alexander, James W. | | • | (Don't Fight It) Feel It - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | It's All Right - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Twistin' the Night Away - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | One More Time - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Don't Cry on My Shoulder - Sam Cooke, Prujan |
Disc 3
| • | Somebody's Gonna Miss Me - Sam Cooke, Brown, Charles [1] | | • | Somebody Have Mercy - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Sugar Dumpling - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Nothing Can Change This Love - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Talkin' Trash - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Movin' and Groovin' - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Soothe Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Having a Party - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Bring It on Home to Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | A Whole Lotta Woman - Sam Cooke, Alexander, James W. | | • | I'm Gonna Forget About You - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Nothing Can Change This Love - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Baby, Baby, Baby - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Send Me Some Lovin' - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | All the Way - Sam Cooke, Cahn, Sammy | | • | Smoke Rings - Sam Cooke, Washington, Ned | | • | Wish You Love - Sam Cooke, Trenet | | • | Driftin' Blues - Sam Cooke, Brown, Charles [1] | | • | Little Girl - Sam Cooke, Hyde | | • | Cry Me a River - Sam Cooke, Hamilton, Arthur | | • | These Foolish Things - Sam Cooke, Link, Harry | | • | Frankie and Johnny - Sam Cooke, Traditional | | • | I Ain't Gonna Cheat on You No More - Sam Cooke, Prudhomme, Beverly | | • | Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Love Will Find a Way - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Cool Train - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam |
Disc 4
| • | Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Sam Cooke, Traditional | | • | Lost and Lookin' - Sam Cooke, Alexander, James W. | | • | Mean Old World - Sam Cooke, Traditional | | • | Please Don't Drive Me Away - Sam Cooke, Brown, Charles [1] | | • | I Lost Everything - Sam Cooke, Tate, Ella | | • | Get Yourself Another Fool - Sam Cooke, Haywood, Frank | | • | Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke, Burnett, Chester Ar | | • | Laughin' and Clownin' - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Trouble Blues - Sam Cooke, Brown, Charles [1] | | • | You Gotta Move - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Fool's Paradise - Sam Cooke, Cordle, Mabel | | • | Shake, Rattle & Roll - Sam Cooke, Calhoun, Charles E. | | • | Intro/(Don't Fight It) Feel It - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Chain Gang - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Cupid - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | It's All Right/ For Sentimental Reasons - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Twistin' the Night Away - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Somebody Have Mercy - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Bring It on Home to Me - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Nothing Can Change This Love - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam | | • | Having a Party - Sam Cooke, Cooke, Sam |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Sam Cooke had a voice like clover honey, and he was as ingenious a businessman as he was an artist--carefully treading the line between smooth pop and deep R&B to bring both audiences to him, as well as together. Disc 1 of this set compiles his 1957-1959 recordings for the Keen label, which had tamed the former gospel tiger into a sweet, wry songwriter with a taste for crooning standards and a signature yodel that marked every song as his property. The second and third discs do the same for his RCA career's singles and album tracks, which, for all their orchestrated slickness, left an indelible mark on soul and even rock (compare "That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On" to Elvis Costello's "Blame It On Cain"!). Lastly, there's a disc with two complete albums from Cooke's stylistic poles: Night Beat (after-hours cool soul) and Live at the Harlem Square Club (Cooke as hard-hollering crowd mover). As a survey of the middle period of Cooke's career, this set is totally solid; be advised, though, that it skips over both his early years shouting gospel with the Soul Stirrers and the classic recordings from the last year or so of his life--which include hits such as "Shake" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" that are still, flabbergastingly, out of print. --Douglas Wolk
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 An Extremely Romantic Album August 24, 2008
I purchased this CD for myself as either a Christmas gift or a birthday gift a couple of years ago, and it made me want to get more albums by Sam Cooke. So I purchased Keep Moving On, which was also wonderful. The feeling I get whenever I listen to this album is priceless. It is an extremely romantic album and a great way to spend some time alone. When he died, the music industry really lost an outstanding musician. May his soul rest in peace.
Mr. Soul October 6, 2007
This is the perfect set for anyone who wants to explore the works of Sam Cooke. Wonderfully put together.
The Man Who Invented Soul***Excellent*** January 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful music by the best songer that ever lived, period.
One of a kind Voice(Angelic) September 12, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sam Cooke is the man. I know that Sam is an original Idol. Marvin Gaye, Johnny Taylor, Otis Redding, Ronald Isley, Smokey Robinson and many more singers idolized Sam Cooke. The man who invented the soft sweet angelic notes. For instance he first created the Whoa a whoa a whoa. And it is so smoothe. Sam is a man that can sing both rough and smoothe. If you put sam against a lot of singers today they would have to go back to pushing grocery carts or pumping gas. Even though Sam loved to sing in the old style like nate king cole he also would sing pop,gospel,rock and blues showing he is versatile. If Sam was living today who would still be an Idol. Sam Cooke the man,the legend.
 Sam fought the law(yers) but the law(yers) won October 15, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
A pretty audacious title for this box. Does it deliver? Frankly no: There are certainly some of his best tracks here that showcase both his smooth soaring side and the times when he'd allow a little sandpaper into his voice. But it also fails to give you any idea where that great voice got its seasoning (none of his Specialty era gospel material) and turns away for the most part from the grittier material it seems Cooke would have aimed at had a hotel manager's gun not claimed his life. In addition, the recognition of the wonderful instrument that was Sam's voice should be paired with the knowledge that his material wasn't always worthy of it. (This set would probably be fine as a well-chosen 2 CD set)
What's missing here? His time with the Soul Stirrers, plenty of songs that were Top 40 hits on the pop or R&B chart (#1 R&B I'll Come Running Back to You, R&B Top 10 hits Little Red Rooster (you get a live version instead),Shake, and A Change is Gonna Come, as well as Ain't That Good News, Good Times, Tennessee Waltz, Cousin Of Mine, and It's Got The Whole World Shakin', all of which hit Top 40 on one or both charts. The version of "Another Saturday Night" you get here is an alternate take instead of the 45RPM version. It would also seem essential to get his first bid at mainstream appeal with "Lovable". (He released it under the name Dale Cook to try and avoid offending his gospel fans.) Most of these are missing because of lawyers (read the review by compilation producer Paul Williams for the in-depth explanation).
The last disc is the whole albums of NIGHT BEAT and LIVE AT THE HARLEM SQUARE CLUB. It feels more like a record company cash grab from Cooke connoisseurs than an attempt to be comprehensive. Cherrypicking a few live cuts would be the better route.
Soundwise, I can't argue with the remastering. It all sounds stunning. If you're a mono purist, be advised that stereo mixes were used on this set.
BOTTOM LINE:
Cooke is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and deserves better than this. Until the lawyers can get in agreement, Cooke will not have a definitive box set. There's a phenomenal 2 CD box set on Cooke waiting to be made. Until then, most Cooke fans will get the best overview on the remastered SACD audio PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND (31 tracks,B00009N1ZV). It distills Cooke's greatness in a single disc and includes nearly everything mentioned as "missing" above.
3 1/2 stars
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