Songs by Sam Cooke

Songs by Sam Cooke
Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released 1957[1]
Recorded 30:16
Genre Rhythm and blues, traditional pop, swing
Label Keen
Producer Bumps Blackwell
Sam Cooke chronology
Songs by Sam Cooke
(1957)		 Encore
(1958)Encore1958

Sam Cooke, better known as Songs by Sam Cooke (as shown on the back cover), is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.

Track listing

Side 1
  1. "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke, originally credited to L.C. Cook) – 2:41
  2. "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 2:31
  3. "Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:30
  4. "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:39
  5. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:40
  6. "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 2:57
Side 2
  1. "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25
  2. "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58
  3. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05
  4. "The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17
  5. "So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38
  6. "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16
  7. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) – 2:19

Personnel

On "You Send Me" and "Summertime"

  • Clifton White, René Hall - guitar
  • Ted Brinson - bass guitar
  • Earl Palmer - drums
  • Lee Gotch, The Pied Pipers - backing vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1958) Peak
position
Billboard Top LPs[2] 16

Notes

  1. ↑ "Songs by Sam Cooke". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Sam Cooke – Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
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