AVID Pop continues with its Four Classic Pop Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Sam Cooke, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details.
“Sam Cooke”; “Cooke’s Tour”; “Hits of the 50’s” and “Twistin’ The Night Away”
It’s time to forget all the horror stories about the late great Sam Cooke. The fact that his label seemed to be trying to turn him into a black Elvis Presley and the cries of sell out as he left his gospel origins and moved into the pop arena, all culminating in the ghastly and shocking details of his tragic death. It’s time to just settle back and listen to that voice. A voice that was truly heaven sent and that could sing just about anything including the proverbial telephone directory and make it sound beautiful, and pained and joyous, and almost all at the same time. A truly unique talent whose influence is still to be heard to this day and still to be missed to this day.
CD1
1-13: ‘Sam Cooke’
1. You Send Me
2. The Lonesome Road
3. Tammy
4. Ol’ Man River
5. Moonlight In Vermont
6. Canadian Sunset
7. Summer Time
8. Around The World
9. Ain’t Misbehavin’
10. The Bells Of St. Mary’s
11. So Long
12. Danny Boy
13. That Lucky Old Sun
14-25: ‘Cooke’s Tour’
14. Faraway Places
15. Under Paris Skies
16. South Of The Border
17. Bali Ha’i
18. The Coffee Song
19. Arrivederci Roma
20. London By Night
21. Jamaica Farewell
22. Galway Bay
23. Sweet Leilani
24. The Japanese Farewell Song
25. The House I Live In
CD2
1-12: ‘Hits of The 50s’
1. Hey There
2. Mona Lisa
3. Too Young
4. The Great Pretender
5. You, You, You
6. Unchained Melody
7. The Wayward Wind
8. Secret Love
9. The Song From Moulin Rouge
10. I’m Walking Behind You
11. Cry
12. Venus
13-24: ‘Twistin’ The Night Away’
13. Twistin’ The Night Away
14. Sugar Dumpling
15. Twistin’ In The Kitchen With Dinah
16. Somebody’s Gonna Miss Me
17. A Whole Lotta Woman
18. The Twist
19. Twistin’ In The Old Town Tonight
20. Movin’ And A Groovin’
21. Camptown Twist
22. Somebody Have Mercy
23. Soothe Me
24. That’s It - I Quit - I’m Movin’ On
