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Songs by Sam Cooke

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Released
  
February 1958

Genre
  
Traditional pop

Producer
  
Bumps Blackwell

Recorded
  
30:16

Label
  
Keen

Songs by Sam Cooke (1957)
  
Encore (1958)

Sam Cooke, better known as Songs by Sam Cooke (as shown on the back cover), is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1
  1. "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke, originally credited to L.C. Cook) – 2:41
  2. "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 2:31
  3. "Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:30
  4. "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:39
  5. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:40
  6. "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 2:57
Side 2
  1. "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25
  2. "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58
  3. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05
  4. "The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17
  5. "So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38
  6. "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16
  7. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) – 2:19

Personnel

On "You Send Me" and "Summertime"

  • Clifton White, René Hall - guitar
  • Ted Brinson - bass
  • Earl Palmer - drums
  • Lee Gotch, The Pied Pipers - backing vocals

    • References

    Songs by Sam Cooke Wikipedia
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