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| Artist: Sam Cooke
Label: RCA
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.97
New (29) Used (6) from $8.98
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 86949
Format: Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 69551
UPC: 828766955125
EAN: 0828766955125
ASIN: B000AO4NJK
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 and Roll - Sam Cooke, Calhoun, Charles E. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 EXCELLENT REMASTER OF SOME GREAT MUSIC!!!!! August 2, 2008
Do yourself a favor. Get a 2005 remaster of this gem, and don't worry
about the "tape hiss" you may hear during the first seven seconds of
track two. I believe many folks who claim they don't like soul, R&B and
blues would love this CD. It is, in my opinion, that good.
You Gotta Move Yall! May 22, 2008
Night Beat, the Live Harlem cd, and his time with the Soul Stirrers are the best of Sam. With Night Beat, he appeared to be trying to get back to his roots. I am not particularly a fan of his water down, generally soulless pop creations. However, I do understand that he was trying to get that ever elusive mainstream dollar, and I guess realistically, he had to water down his music to attract them. I think with this production he was trying to bring back and hold on to his core black audience. Very few black geniuses could go into the mainstream as themselves - raw. They had to wear that mask. You know "we wear the mask" is a tiresome fixture. Ouch! My face is crackin'."
Essential Sam Cooke = ESSENTIAL music April 16, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
... I would prefer to shut up and just have you listen to this (but then you wouldn't have a review, so here we go).
There never was and probably never will be another singer like Sam Cooke. His terrific voice, his unsurpassed ability to bring feelings across, even in those pre-video days, pre surround and what not days, just through old radios and vinyl, is pure genius.
This album has "just" 12 songs, a few musicians and then of course The Voice, Sam Cooke. As the title suggests, mostly slow tunes, somewhere between blues and gospel, with a piano (or organ) as main support. Sam never needed more. A very personal recording, as if sung just for you.
Sam Cooke knew exactly what he wanted and as far as I can judge he was his own best critic.
Barney Kessel on guitar, Ray Johnson piano, Billy Preston organ, Clifford Hill bass, Hal Blaine drums.
This blew Ray Charles away - you need better advice? Get it!!!
(one small note on the different editions: as long as you buy one that has 12 songs and Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen as a first and Shake Rattle And Roll as the last you're on the safe side. I have both the 01 and the 05 edition. One has a little more tape hiss and the other one a slightly less prominent instrumentation. Personally I prefer the 05 one mastered by Bob Ludwig)
Best Sam Cooke Ever! October 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is some of the best R/B by Sam Cooke that I have ever heard. I have even bought several other copies to share with friends. This is masterful, raw, music; you can hear the breaths that he takes. "Get Yourself Another Fool" is a masterpiece!
"Night Beat", The essential SAM COOKE . July 24, 2007
I bought this when it was new...On vinyl.It is the best Sam Cooke album to own if you only buy one. Check out "Lost and Lookin' " and "I Lost Everything" . Ever had a broken heart ? You might be able to Feeeeelll these two.
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