Sam Cooke Portrait Legend Rare

Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 Product Description: From Sam Cooke's teenage debut as a full fledged member of the legendary Soul Stirrers in 1951 through his career as a rhythm and blues phenomenon thanks to the recordings for which he is acknowledged as the progenitor of soul music. He was inducted a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in Cleveland, in 1986. Books authored.' You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke' by Daniel J. Wolff, 'Sam Cooke Portrait of a Legend' by himself and 'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke' by Peter Guralnick. Soul Music Singer.

Mike Johnston: Sam Cooke's sweet blue bel canto defined soul music for an entire generation prior to the British Invasion. Various writers like to claim that he invented soul music, which is a defensible thesis except for the fact that 'soul' was just the then-current euphemism for black pop song. Put it this way: if there had been an 'American Idol' in the 1950s, absent 1950s racism, Sam Cooke would have won going away. He was a new kind of black star—young and clear-eyed, intelligent, a savvy businessman, politically aware. He had dozens of songs in the Top 40 throughout the years covered by this anthology, including his signature hit 'You Send Me,' which went to #1 in 1957, the year I was born. The song is one of those perfect pop turns, like Patsy Cline's 'I Fall to Pieces,' The Temptations' 'Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me),' or Brian Wilson's 'In My Room,' in which the raw carbon of silly superficial pop music somehow emerges a diamond.
I was seven years old when Cooke was murdered under murky circumstances at the Hacienda Motel in L.A.—an event which I would no way have been aware of at the time—so Cooke was never anything but historical for me. He is one of a group of vocalists I engaged with in short, intense bursts over my formative years through single greatest hits albums, like Louis Armstrong (it was years before I realized he played trumpet too), Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline, and Nat King Cole (and even Jimi Hendrix, who also died before I was really aware of him and whose Smash Hits I wore flat before I got any of his other records). Perhaps not surprisingly, I think that many pop vocalists whose medium was the 7-inch single can be fully appreciated—and, not coincidentally, adequately represented in a generalist music collection—by one well-chosen greatest hits record. That's not even remotely true of Hendrix, of course, as I learned soon enough, but I still think it's perfectly true of Sam Cooke.
..If, that is, an ideal hits collection exists, which it doesn't for many such artists. But now it does for Cooke. This one Abkco CD collects all the Sam Cooke anybody but a specialist ever needs, from a cut or two of early Soul Stirrers gospel to the posthumous 'Shake' from 1965. It includes all the hits from the silly '50s doo-wop and love songs like 'Another Saturday Night' to the oddly chipper 'Chain Gang,' to a rare true blues ('Little Red Rooster'), all the way up to his plaintive self-penned masterpiece 'A Change is Gonna Come,' which has been called the black 'Blowin' in the Wind' and which gives evidence to the songwriting potential we lost when Cooke was shot dead at the age of only 33. (Although, arguably, Cooke's own performance is not the best version of this now canonical modern hymn.) There are a whopping 30 songs on this CD in all (plus one brief speech cut), and the skillfully remastered sound quality is as good as it gets.
You can pick Sam Cooke apart every which way, from his gospel roots to his chain-gang grunt rhythms (as on 'Sad Mood') to his call-and-respond choir backings, all the way to the immense reach of his influence, cited by musicians from John Lennon and Bob Marley to Bruce Springsteen. (Cooke is one of those artists about whom it can be honestly said, you've heard him even if you've never heard him.) To be honest, I don't listen to Sam Cooke every year, and I'm not sure I'd want to hear the thirty songs at once, all in a row. But the bottom line comes down to two things. No matter what Sam Cooke sings, the overarching emotion he communicates is joy. And then the Voice. As Simon Cowell tartly informs many an Idol wannabee, 'This is a singing contest.' Say what you might about pop crooning as art or not, Sam Cooke sure could sing.
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Sam Cooke – Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz Time – 1:17:43 minutes 1,35 GB Genre: R&B
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From his teenage debut as a full fledged member of the legendary Soul Stirrers in 1951 through his career as a rhythm and blues phenomenon, Sam Cooke is acknowledged as the progenitor of soul music. His hit songs, most of which he wrote, went on to become pop standards, enduring to this day. Sam Cooke’s amazing body of work is now encapsulated in Sam Cooke: Portrait of A Legend:1951-1964. It includes 30 tracks and is part of ABKCO’s Sam Cooke Remastered Collection, an initiative to offer state of the art editions of restored and remastered. The songs included into Portrait Of A Legend collectively logged 273 weeks or five years and three months on Billboard’s Pop Chart and a mind boggling 508 weeks (nine years and nine months) on the Pop and R&B charts, combined.

Some 46 years after his first pop hit, and 39 years after his death, comes only the second attempt at a comprehensive Sam Cooke collection. Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 eclipses RCA’s early-’80s The Man and His Music, going it better in running time but losing some important recordings — “That’s Heaven to Me” and “Soothe Me,” arguably one of Cooke’s most important songs — in the process of summing up his career. From 1951’s Soul Stirrers’ gospel classic “Touch the Hem of His Garment” through to 1964’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “Shake,” we get highlights of Cooke’s career presented in state-of-the-art digital audio; superior in every way possible to the audio quality of The Man and His Music. What’s more, this is a hybrid disc with SACD capability, and the sound on that layer is almost as much of a jump above the quality on the CD layer as this remastering is from the old The Man and His Music disc; and either the standard CD or the SACD playback makes that 1980s-issued compilation sound faint and anemic. There’s also annotation here — which was totally lacking on the earlier CD — by Peter Guralnick, which delves very effectively into the background of each song. And the producers have taken the trouble to be a little inventive in the programming — it would have been easy enough to follow a strict chronological approach, but instead the disc opens and closes with tracks that reveal Cooke’s gospel roots, which is pretty much where his music started and where it ended up, bookending his first hit with songs from his first session ever.

Tracklist:
01 – Touch The Hem Of His Garment
02 – Lovable
03 – You Send Me
04 – Only Sixteen
05 – (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
06 – Just For You
07 – Win Your Love For Me
08 – Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha
09 – 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
21 – Meet Me At Mary’s Place
22 – Twistin’ The Night Away
23 – Shake
24 – Tennessee Waltz
25 – Another Saturday Night
26 – Good Times
27 – Having A Party
28 – That’s Where It’s At
29 – A Change Is Gonna Come
30 – Jesus Gave Me Water
31 – Soul (Hidden Track)

** – Please note: tracks “1, 4 & 14″ are 24bit/44,1 kHz

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