Details
Track Listing
1. Touch the Hem of His Garment
2. Lovable
3. You Send Me
4. Only Sixteen
5. For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You)
6. Just For You
7. Win Your Love For Me
8. Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
9. I'll Come Running Back to You
10. You Were Made For Me
11. Sad Mood
12. Cupid
13. Wonderful World, (What A)
14. Chain Gang
15. Summertime
16. Little Red Rooster
17. Bring It on Home to Me
18. Nothing Can Change This Love
19. Sugar Dumpling
20. Good News, (Ain't That)
21. Meet Me at Mary's Place
22. Twistin' the Night Away
23. Shake
24. Tennessee Waltz
25. Another Saturday Night
26. Good Times
27. Having a Party
28. That's Where It's At
29. Change Is Gonna Come, A
30. Jesus Gave Me Water
31. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
Album Notes
Contains an untitled hidden track which follows "Jesus Gave Me Water."
Personnel includes: Sam Cooke (vocals); Clif White, Bobby Womack (guitar); Billy Preston (organ); Lou Rawls (background vocals).
Producers include: Bumps Blackwell, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, Rene Hall, Sam Cooke.
Compilation producers: Jody H. Klein, Teri Landi.
Includes liner notes by Peter Guralnick.
Sam Cooke was a giant not just in the soul world, but in the larger scheme of American music. His melding of soul, gospel, and pop was as trenchant as it was revolutionary and influential. This unbeatable 30-song compilation touches on every aspect of this phenomenally gifted singer-songwriter's career. The romantic croon of "You Send Me" shares space with the mournful "Sad Mood," the romping "Twistin' the Night Away," and the moving social/spiritual statement "A Change Is Gonna Come" (this compilation is one of the rare collections to have this stirring and sought-after track). For pure fun, it's hard to beat the humor-filled "Another Saturday Night." Perhaps the master stroke, though, is "Havin' a Party." As no less esteemed a personage than Bruce Springsteen once observed, it's an ostensibly celebratory song that seems to bear a deep sadness via Cooke's vocal performance, a sense of laughing to keep from crying. At the same time, Cooke manages the considerable feat of making loneliness sound like fun. It takes some kind of singer to pull off a trick like that. And it takes some kind of production team (take a bow, Teri Landi and Jody Klein) to bring such vibrant new life to the legendary material so lovingly remastered and repackaged for this top-shelf compilation.
Industry Reviews
5 stars out of 5 - ...This remastered SACD Best Of perfectly showcases the sweet innovations of the man many call the greatest singer of all time....Sublime...
Q (12/01/2003)
Ranked #106 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - Cooke invented soul music, and his gospel-rooted vocal style, with its swooping transitions from silk to sandpaper, is one of the most influential of the last half-century...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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