Sam Cooke - Keep Movin on
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Free Music Review: ONE OF SAM COOKE'S VERY BEST - OUTSTANDING SOUND QUALITY
Hit: 5 Stars
Only some of the many Sam Cooke cds that are listed for sale on amazon.com are truly worth purchasing. KEEP MOVIN' ON IS ONE OF SAM COOKE'S VERY BEST CDS AND IS DEFINITELY WORTH PURCHASING AND ENJOYING. Other Sam Cooke cds that are worth purchasing and enjoying include Portrait of a Legend, The Man and His Music, The Rhythm and The Blues, and Night Beat. Most of the songs on Keep Movin' On were recorded in 1963-64, the last year of Sam Cooke's life. By listening to Keep Movin' On we can learn what types of music Sam Cooke thought worthy of recording as he looked forward into his future. Included on Keep Movin' On are such soul hits as Good News, Shake, Another Saturday Night, and A Change is Going to Come. Also included on Keep Movin On are such popular standards of the 1950-60 time period as Basin Street Blues, Tennessee Waltz, The Riddle Song, and You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You. It appears that Sam Cooke intended to appeal to both a younger audience who enjoyed rock and soul music and an older audience who enjoyed popular standards. Thus Keep Movin' On gives us the fabulous, and perhaps the very best, voice of Sam Cooke as he sings a wide variety of songs. I love Sam Cooke's voice and phrasing. I also enjoy a wide variety of music. For these two reasons, I highly treasure and often listen to Keep Movin' On. Sam Cooke's voice and phrasing were so wonderful that he even sings popular standards of that time period so beautifully that I much enjoy them. Some of these popular standards that Sam Cooke sings so well are found not only on Keep Movin' On, but also on Night Beat and on The Rhythm and The Blues. One more extremely positive quality of Keep Movin' On is that the sound quality is so excellent that one is tempted to call it perfect. Remastering worked wonderfully on this cd. If you want to hear Sam Cooke's voice with all of its purity and clarity, Keep Movin' On is a MUST BUY.
John
Free Music Review: Gives an idea of what was lost
Hit: 5 Stars
This Cd gives you an idea of the kind of thing that Sam Cooke would have been recording had it not been for the tragic night of Dec. 11, 1964 (a little over a week before I was born, in fact). Much of this points to the future direction of Soul Music. "Yeah man" is clearly the original version of Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music." "Ease My Troubled Mind" could be seen either as a metaphor for Sam's personal problems at the time (his son had just died) or that of the Civil Rights Movement. "It's Got the Whole World Shaking" is one of Sam's lesser-known, but not lesser tunes."The Riddle Song" usually brings guffaws to most modern listeners because of the classic comedy scene in "Animal House" that involves this song (where John Belushi smashes the guitar of a terrible sounding folksinger who warbles the tune), but Sam's moving rendition brings the tune back to it's original dignity.
"A Change Is Gonna Come" needs no further elaboration from me, but "Keep Moving On" sounds almost like a sequel to "Change," somewhat of a less elaborate hymn to positive thinking. I strongly recommend that you play this song before you go to work or school, it will really put you in a good frame of mind to face adversity. One can only wonder why it was never publicly released after it was recorded in 1963. But in either case, listen and enjoy.
Free Music Review: Essential Listening!
Hit: 5 Stars
"Keep Movin' on" is a compilation that ,with a few exceptions, covers the last year of Sam Cooke's recording career. The last album released in his own lifetime, the great "Ain't That Good News" is almost completely covered here; along with rarities, singles and some of his very last recordings from November 1964.
For people who only know Sam Cooke from pop-hits like "Only Sixteen", "A Wonderful World" and "You Send Me", it may sound a little odd that Cooke is often called the creator of soul-music. This wouldn't be the case if they were familar with these late Sam Cooke recordings. "Ain't That Good New" is my favourite Sam Cooke original album; and most best from songs from that album such as "Meet Me at Mary's Place", "Good Times", "The Riddle Song" and the title track are included.
Other highlight are "Shake", "That's Where it's At" ( I believe this song inspired Otis Redding to do "That's How Strong my Love is" ), and the previously unreleased "Keep Moving On"
Fine informative 26 pages booklet included!
Essential listening for fans of early soul-music - and fans of good music in general!
Free Music Review: Sweet, Sweet Soul music
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD turned out to be some of Sam Cooke's final and greatest work. This CD has such variety, from high-tempo dancec cuts like "Shake" and "Yeah Man". There are ballads like the underappreciated "Basin Street Blues" and "I'm Falling in Love". And of course, there is the GREATEST song ever written and recorded, "A Change is Gonna Come". I can listen to this song for hours on end, and every time it gives you a trembling in your stomach and makes you want to fall to your knees and cry. There are other gems on here like "Another Saturday Night", and "Meet Me At Mary's Place". This CD can be enjoyed by anyone of any age.Free Music Review: Gems and rares in his last days
Hit: 5 Stars
Since I happened to give up a fine compilation CD "A Man and His Music", I had waited too long for listening to Sam Cooke's last recordings including 'A Change is Gonna Come', 'Another Saturday Nights', Good Times' and so on. However, now we can have them easily on CD because Abkco started releasing his hidden treasures, especially Cameo-Parkway recordings. If you want to taste only the cream of Sam Cooke tunes, you better get "Portrait of a Legend". But if you want to dig deeper, I recommend you to have this CD with "The Man Who Invented Soul" and CDs of his Soul Stirrers years.