skeith Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 One of my all time favorite singers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Looking forward to reading Peter Guralnick's bio when it eventually comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Those who only know his Top 40 hits don't know Sam Cooke, not even slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Those who only know his Top 40 hits don't know Sam Cooke, not even slightly. Well, except for "A Change is Gonna Come." That song IS Sam Cooke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 (edited) One of my faves--hard to track down--is TRIBUTE TO THE LADY, aka SINGS THE BILLIE HOLIDAY STORY. Pretty sure it was one of the earliest Holiday tributes to come out, even before Johnny Griffin's WHITE GARDENIA (well, I guess Webster Young's FOR LADY beats them all, being released two years before Holiday died). NIGHT BEAT and LIVE AT THE HARLEM SQUARE are others I play quite a lot, now available as part of the 4-CD RCA Cooke box (THE MAN WHO INVENTED SOUL, which also contains several songs from the Holiday record). I know we've been panicking a lot about Fantasy lately, but it's likely they'll keep their 3-CD Cooke/Soul Stirrers box in print. Edited December 11, 2004 by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibes Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I'd never even heard of Sam Cooke until recently, and have never heard any of his songs, other than small samples online. Even with this limited experience, I decided to pick up two Sam Cooke SACD's I saw at Best Buy. I'll have to open them up and give them a listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Those who only know his Top 40 hits don't know Sam Cooke, not even slightly. Well, except for "A Change is Gonna Come." That song IS Sam Cooke. Very true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I'll pile one here and agree that Sam's demise was, indeed, a great loss for American music as a whole. Neat Beat is, IMHO, 11/12 superb: "Shake Rattle and Roll" doesn't work in this context for me - another Charles Brown number (in addition to the several already there) would've been more in keeping with the late night mood. Again, IMHO, not all of Sam's renditions of standards work, but one I particularly like is his version of "These Foolish Things". Whatever happened to his brother L.C. (also a singer)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Those who only know his Top 40 hits don't know Sam Cooke, not even slightly. Well, except for "A Change is Gonna Come." That song IS Sam Cooke. Stipulated, and gladly so. But for those who only know the hits, and get grabbed by that one, there's a LOT more digging to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 If one does not care to explore the Gospel side of Sam Cooke, one at least owes it to one's self to get this puppy, which shows the hits played in a way that they weren't on the record, for an audience that knew better than to take those hits at face value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 If one does not care to explore the Gospel side of Sam Cooke, one at least owes it to one's self to get this puppy, which shows the hits played in a way that they weren't on the record, for an audience that knew better than to take those hits at face value. Yes indeedy, with the added bonus of one Mr. King Curtis on tenor saxophone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Those who only know his Top 40 hits don't know Sam Cooke, not even slightly. Well, except for "A Change is Gonna Come." That song IS Sam Cooke. I would add a few others as well. "Bring it on Home to Me" is my personal favorite song, not just of Sam Cooke but any singer. Then we have Good Times, That's Where It's At, Having a Party, Shake, and a few others. But there is much too little Sam Cooke, period. His murder was one of the most tragic events in music history. There was so much more to come. Sam had reached full artistic maturity and just obtained the artistic freedom from RCA that he needed. He was set to create the greatest soul music of all time. A Change is Gonna Come was just the beginning...and the end. RIP Sam Cooke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeith Posted December 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I'm in a Sad Mood tonight I'm in a sa-ad mo-od Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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