Biography

The most important soul singer in history, Sam Cooke was also the inventor of soul music, and its most popular and beloved performer in both the black and white communities. Equally important, he was among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of the music business, founding both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his career. Yet those business interests didn't prevent him from being engaged in topical issues, including the struggle over civil rights, the pitch and intensity of which followed an arc that paralleled his emergence as a star. ~ Bruce Eder

Top Tracks

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• (what A) Wonderful World

• A Change Is Gonna Come

• Another Saturday Night

• Bring It On Home To Me

• Chain Gang

• Come, Let Us Go Back To God

• Cupid

• Don't Get Around Much Anymore

• Feel It

• Get Yourself Another Fool

• Good News

• Good Times

• Having A Party

• How Far Am I From Canaan?

• I Don't Want To Cry

• I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

• I'll Come Running Back To You

• I'm So Glad (trouble Don't Last Always)

• It's All Right

• Jamaica Farewell

• Jesus Gave Me Water

• Jesus Will Lead Me To That Promised Land

• Little Red Rooster

• Little Things You Do

• Lost And Lookin'

• Lovable

• Mean Old World

• Mona Lisa

• Nothing Can Change This Love

• Only Sixteen

• Rome (wasn't Built In A Day)

• Shake

• Tenderness

• That's Heaven To Me

• The Great Pretender

• The Last Mile Of The Way

• Touch The Hem Of His Garment

• Twistin' The Night Away

• Were You There?

• With You

• Wonderful World

• You Send Me

• You're Always On My Mind

Discography

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• The SAR Records Story

  ABKCO Records

  1994

• Try a Little Love

  RCA Victor

  1965

• Shake

  RCA

  1965

• The Gospel Soul of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, Vol. 1

  P-Vine Records

  1965

• Sam Cooke at the Copa

  ABKCO Records

  1964

• Ain't That Good News

  ABKCO Records

  1964

• Mr. Soul

  RCA

  1963

• Twistin' the Night Away

  RCA Victor

  1962

• My Kind of Blues

  RCA

  1961

• Hits of the Fifties

  RCA

  1960

• I Thank God

  Get Back Records

  1960

• The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke

  World Star Collectio

  1960

• Swing Low

  RCA

  1960

• Cooke's Tour

  RCA

  1960

• Right On

  Cherie

  196?

• Tribute to the Lady - Billie Holiday

  Brunswick

  1959

• Hit Kit

  Keen

  1959

• Sam Cooke

  Get Back Records

  1958

• Encore

  Get Back Records

  1958