
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.
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- 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
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- 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