Sam Cooke - Man Who Invented Soul
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Artist: Sam CookeBrand: COOKE,SAM
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- You Send Me
- Summertime
- For Sentimental Reasons
- Desire Me
- Lonely Island
- You Were Made For Me
- Win Your Love For Me
- Love You Most of All
- Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
- No One Can Take Your Place
- Only Sixteen
- With You
- Crazy She Calls Me
- I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
- Comes Love
- Ain't Nobody's Business
- Little Things You Do
- There, I've Said It Again
- When I Fall in Love
- Let's Go Steady Again
- Wonderful World, (What A)
- Love Me
- If I Had You (I'd Be Happy)
- You Belong to Me
- Sad Mood [#]
- Teenage Sonata
- Tenderness [#]
- Chain Gang
- Since I Met You Baby
- I Belong to Your Heart
- Out in the Cold Again
- Cupid
- Sad Mood
- One More Time
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- Hold On
- Feel It, (Don't Fight It)
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- But Not For Me
- You're Always on My Mind
- It's All Right
- Somebody's Gonna Miss Me
- Somebody Have Mercy
- Nothin' Can Change This Love
- Movin' and Groovin'
- Soothe Me
- Having a Party
- A Whole Lotta Woman
- I'm Gonna Forget About You
- Nothing Can Change This Love
- Baby, Baby, Baby
- Send Me Some Lovin'
- All the Way
- Smoke Rings
- I Wish You Love
- Driftin' Blues
- Little Girl
- Cry Me a River
- These Foolish Things
- Frankie and Johnny
- I Ain't Gonna Cheat on You No More
- Another Saturday Night [Alternate Take][#]
- Love Will Find a Way
- Cool Train [#]
- Sugar Dumpling
- Twistin' the Night Away
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Lost and Lookin'
- Mean Old World
- Please Don't Drive Me Away
- I Lost Everything
- Get Yourself Another Fool
- Little Red Rooster
- Laughin' and Clownin'
- Trouble Blues
- You Gotta Move
- Fool's Paradise
- Shake, Rattle & Roll
- Medley
- Chain Gang
- Cupid
- Medley
- Bring It on Home to Me
- Somebody Have Mercy
- Nothing Can Change This Love
- Having a Party
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Hit: 5 Stars
There are 2 kinds of music fans: those who are happy with a good collection of an artist's best songs and those who feel compelled to hear every note an artist has written. For the former there is A Man and His Music or Portrait of a Legend (with maybe the single cd Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers on Specialty for a broader view). For the latter, RCA (Paul Williams) has sorted through the vaults and come up with a comprehensive chronicle of Sam Cooke's secular contribution. But if you're even thinking of buying this, you will also need the cd Keep Movin' On to get the full RCA picture. That's just the way it is.
During his lifetime, the Keen label released 6 albums and RCA 9 1/3 lps, with an additional 5 posthumously, not counting the myriad "best of's" and hits repackagings that followed in his wake. Most of the Keen material (later acquired by RCA) was some sort of attempt to aim Sam at the adult market ala Nat Cole or Sammy Davis, Jr., his pop hits notwithstanding. And why not? This was a seriously excellent singer who could sing anything. What "The Man Who Invented Soul" does is weed through the pile of MOR mediocrity and give us a focused view of his influence and appeal to the emerging soul audience with an emphasis on his (and partner J.W. Alexander's) original material, both hit and non-hit. The first disc condenses the Keen output to 21 representative cuts- 9 Cooke originals plus 2 from Alexander- and just enough easy listening tracks to give you a taste without inducing nausia.
At RCA there was a tendency to release generic theme lps- Cooke's Tour (Moonlight in Vermont, anyone?), Hits of the 50's (Tammy?), even Keen had a Billie Holiday tribute- which stood apart from his teen hit appeal. These first 2 lps are, thankfully in this context, ignored. His 3rd lp, Swing Low (pop/folk ala Harry Belafonte) started to incorporate original material (3 songs including "Chain Gang"). His next lp, Blues My Way, is represented on TMWIS by 10 tracks and is a somewhat successful big band attempt at swinging bluesy standards. The twist craze was covered on his album, Twistin' the Night Away, which contributes 8 fine songs to the box set. The lp Mr. Soul, from which TMWIS gleans 9 tracks, including the gorgeous original "Nothing Can Change This Love", is a better realised sepia Sinatra run through which at least gave him bragging rights to the word, if not exactly the content, of "soul". The concept of Night Beat, laid back, late night, small combo atmosphere, was so successful in execution that it is included in its entirety here (along with the great Live at the Harlem Sq. Club) on disc 4.
So, what remains in this set is all the original RCA hits, b-sides and lp filler, most written or co-written by Sam Cooke. The "1/3" lp is Three Great Guys (w/Neil Sedeka & Paul Anka) which had 4 non-hits that help make this a complete collection of all of his original songs, some 40 or so (up to the Allen Klein era, i.e. Ain't That Good News, Live at the Copa, Keep Movin' On). The thing you come to understand is that on any given self penned b-side- however seemimgly "tossed off"- he is invested emotionally in a way that you'll never hear in his dozens and dozens of MOR easy listening covers that pad so many collections. And isn't that emotional investment one of the ways we define soul music and one of the reasons we love to hear Sam sing?
It would be nice if RCA and abkco got together for a more complete single RCA era package, but believe me, having an 8 cd set of every Keen and RCA track won't enhance your appreciation and may well serve to undermine it. Just get this (plus Keep Movin' On and, what the heck, The SAR Story) and you'll have all you need to know about The Man Who Invented Soul. Unless you just can't live without the Sam Cooke (w/Soul Stirrers) 3 cd Specialty box!
Man Who Invented Soul Poster
4 CD Set.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
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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