Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend (2 LPs)

Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 is the career-spanning 31 track collection of music pioneer Sam Cooke’s greatest works. This essential collection contains recordings from Cooke’s gospel and early R&B career as well as his pop/soul hits from the SAR, Specialty and RCA labels and has combined them with the peak of his career on his own label, Tracey Records. • 30 incredible tracks including You Send Me; Chain Gang; Shake; Twistin’ the Night Away; Little Red Rooster; (What a) Wonderful World; Another Saturday Night; Cupid; Only Sixteen; A Change Is Gonna Come; Having a Party, and more career highlights. Indispensable!

• 80 minutes of music – all his essential hits, providing a major overview of a career that has left an everlasting mark on American music that remains indelible today more than 50 years after Cooke’s untimely death. • The songs included in Sam Cooke: 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. • Features comprehensive liner notes by renowned author Peter Guralnick as well as detailed musician credits.

• - 1 -

  • 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

• - 2 -

  • 1. Bring It On Home To Me
  • 2. Nothing Can Change This Love
  • 3. Sugar Dumpling
  • 4. (Ain't That) Good News
  • 5. Meet Me At Mary's Place
  • 6. Twistin' the Night Away
  • 7. Shake
  • 8. Tennessee Waltz
  • 9. Another Saturday Night
  • 10. Good Times
  • 11. Having a Party
  • 12. That's Where It's At
  • 13. A Change is Gonna Come
  • 14. Jesus Gave Me Water
  • 15. Unlisted Track