| features in: Album Chart of 1961 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
Sam’s 4th LP for RCA, released in October 1961. This is much more palatable for me. He continues to mine the American Songbook, but this time with a bluesy inflection from the band, very much in the great tradition of Jimmie Lunceford. The set includes 11 covers and 1 original, “You’re Always On My Mind”, a classy soul n roll ballad penned in-house by long-time pal and work colleague J.W. Alexander. The album’s intriguing liner notes, penned once again by producers Hugo and Luigi, shine some light into the Sam Cooke psyche: “When we decided to do a “blues” album with Sam Cooke, we got together dozens of publishers’ folders containing the old blues runes that have become semi-classics of the business. As we pored over these one evening with Sam, we could see something troubling him. To our question, Sam answered, “these songs are all right, I guess, but they’re not my kinda blues.” Straight from the off, Sam delves into the Ink Spots tune from 1942, “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”. It’s immediately clear we won’t be digging on Waters, Wolf or Sonny Boy. But that’s ok. Sam’s kinda blues is kinda classy. “Since I Met You Baby” (Ivory Joe Hunter, 1956) shows what this boy is made of… “Love me in the morning, love me late at night”. The blood is pumping. To boot, the band are cool in that lazy but sexy way which only the blues can truly deliver. In the Sam Cooke story, things are starting to hot up right about now…
The Jukebox Rebel
29–Jul–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:14]  Sam Cooke - Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (Edward Ellington, Bob Russell) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A2 | [03:00]  Sam Cooke - Little Girl Blue (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A3 | [03:25]  Sam Cooke - Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (Jimmie Cox) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A4 | [02:27]  Sam Cooke - Out In The Cold Again (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) Soul Ballad |
| A5 | [02:34]  Sam Cooke - But Not For Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A6 | [02:10]  Sam Cooke - Exactly Like You (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
| B1 | [03:17]  Sam Cooke - I’m Just A Lucky So And So (Mack David, Edward Ellington) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B2 | [03:05]  Sam Cooke - Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B3 | [02:14]  Sam Cooke - Baby Won’t You Please Come Home (Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield) Soul Ballad |
| B4 | [03:01] Sam Cooke - Trouble In Mind (Richard Myknee Jones) Jazz |
| B5 | [02:18]  Sam Cooke - You’re Always On My Mind (James Woody Alexander) Soul Ballad |
| B6 | [02:07] Sam Cooke - The Song Is Ended (Irving Berlin) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
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“Night Beat” by Sam Cooke - album review
“Night Beat” by Sam Cooke - a track-by-track review of the album. Released: 1963 | Label: RCA Victor LPM-2709 | Rating: 7·43 | Prevalent genre(s): Blues / Rhythm n Blues; Soul Ballad
| features in: Album Chart of 1963 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
Sam Cooke’s second LP of 1963, released in August. Boy oh boy, he’s cooking the gas right about now. Opens with the classic “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”, originally recorded (as far as I can tell) by The Tuskegee Institute Singers in 1917. The song is a traditional spiritual of African American slaves, first collected in the 1867 book “Slave Songs of the United States”. He’s moving deeper into roots and deeper into my affections. Sam rearranges his own “Mean Old World”, a song he’d written and previously recorded whilst still a member of the Soul Stirrers. This is bona–fide life-affirming soul music. Taking on Howlin’ Wolf’s “Little Red Rooster” is a big surprise – and a big success. Billy Preston’s organ is a hoot, imitating the sounds of a Rooster crowing, dogs barking and hounds howling. There’s not a weak track anywhere on this album. “Night Beat” stands as the best new music album he ever made…
The Jukebox Rebel
29–Jul–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [02:13]  Sam Cooke - Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (Traditional) Soul |
| A2 | [03:48]  Sam Cooke - Lost And Lookin’ (James Woody Alexander) Soul Ballad |
| A3 | [03:25] Sam Cooke - Mean Old World (Samuel Cook) Soul Ballad |
| A4 | [02:15]  Sam Cooke - Please Don’t Drive Me Away (Charles Brown) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A5 | [03:25] Sam Cooke - I Lost Everything (Ella Tate) Soul Ballad |
| A6 | [04:07]  Sam Cooke - Get Yourself Another Fool (Frank Haywood, Monroe Tucker) Soul Ballad |
| B1 | [02:53]  Sam Cooke - Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B2 | [03:38] Sam Cooke - Laughin’ And Clownin’ (Samuel Cook) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B3 | [03:24]  Sam Cooke - Trouble Blues (Charles Brown) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B4 | [02:40]  Sam Cooke - You Gotta Move (Samuel Cook) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B5 | [02:25]  Sam Cooke - Fool’s Paradise (Bob Geddins, Johnny Fuller, Mable Cordle) Soul Ballad |
| B6 | [03:31]  Sam Cooke - Shake, Rattle And Roll (Jesse Stone) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |