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| 1. Touch The Hem Of His Garment | |||
| 2. Lovable | |||
| 3. You Send Me | |||
| 4. Only Sixteen | |||
| 5. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons | |||
| 6. Just For You | |||
| 7. Win Your Love For Me | |||
| 8. Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha | |||
| 9. I'll Come Running Back To You | |||
| 10. You Were Made For Me | |||
| 11. Sad Mood | |||
| 12. Cupid | |||
| 13. (What A) Wonderful World | |||
| 14. Chain Gang | |||
| 15. Summertime | |||
| 16. Little Red Rooster | |||
| 17. Bring It On Home To Me | |||
| 18. Nothing Can Change This Love | |||
| 19. Sugar Dumpling | |||
| 20. (Ain't That) Good News | |||
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Cooke collection so far,
By Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 (Audio CD)
The treatment of the music of the definitive soul singer, Sam Cooke, during the CD-era, at least so far, has fallen far short of his contributions. Complicating the situation is the split ownership of his catalog. The now out-of-print "Man And His Music" was a decent compilation of Cooke's charted hits but was deservedly criticized for some poor mastering and resultant less-than-optimal sound quality. RCA/BMG released a much better sounding "best-of" a few years ago but by then the later Cooke tracks controlled by ABKCO were not made available for that piece, leaving it as a frustratingly unfinished career retrospective. This collection is from ABKCO and therefore contains those later recordings but fortunately and ironically, contains the earlier stuff, being licensed from RCA. With all this ownership infighting overcome, we finally get a truly high-quality, well-executed overview of the music of Sam Cooke. From a sampling of his seminal early sides with the Soul Stirrers up through his pop and smooth soul golden age on the charts in the mid 60's, this piece represents a "must-have" for any serious or casual CD collection. The generous 30 tracks in the best sound yet with many in stereo, the exceptions being tracks 1-3,5-7,9,10,15,30, is accompanied by an informative liner notes booklet with info on each of the included tracks. As a collector, due to their inane refusal to license anything they control to other willing CD producers, this reviewer bristles whenever seeing the ABKCO name, but credit must be given where credit is due. And here, Cooke's material gets the treatment it deserves. An absolute must.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wish he'd lived to record some of these again,
By A Customer
This review is from: Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 (Audio CD)
Beyond question one of the greatest singers ever, Sam Cooke had real soul. (His influence turns up today in strange places - Graham Parker and Jesse Winchester have both been touched for sure.)And God knows, Sam needed soul to rise above many of these arrangements. There's no telling now whether it was Sam or his producers who insisted on absurd tempos, awful instrumental sounds and homogenized backing singers. Even his great "A Change Is Gonna Come" has to struggle against staccato brass, echoey bass, shimmering strings and what sounds suspiciously like a hunting horn! The version recorded by The Band on "Moondog Matinee" serves the song better. Similarly, Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster" sounds like a buggy ride (Billy Preston's cheesy organ part is just absurd) and "Tennessee Waltz" is just as rushed. And so on ... Of the 30 songs here, more than half are dated beyond redemption - and many of those were not great songs to begin with. However, there ARE sublime moments, none better than the duet with Lou Rawls on "Bring It On Home to Me". "Wonderful World", "Chain Gang", "Good Times" and "Cupid" still sound fine. And the 1951 recording, "Jesus Gave Me Water" is sensational.
5.0 out of 5 stars
OUTTA SIGHT!!!!,
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This review is from: Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 (Audio CD)
THIS IS A TERRIFIC ALBUM BY A TERRIFIC ARTIST. I LIKE EVERY SONG ON THIS ALBUM. IN FACT, AFTER HEARING THIS ALBUM MADE ME PURCHASE SOME OF THE SOUL STIRRERS GOSPEL MUSIC. I LOVE THIS ALBUM I LOVE SAM COOKE THIS IS A NICE SAM COOKE COMPILATION AND IT INCLUDES A LOT OF MY FAVORITES I WOULD RECOMMEND ANY SAM COOKE FAN TO PURCHASE THIS ALBUM I LOVE IT!!!!!!
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