Music in my Ipod
Jun 1st, 2008 | By Script | Category: MusingsI was thinking about the music of Sam Cooke today. Now the first song I remember hearing by Sam Cooke was “Having a Party” I somehow got hold of the 45 when I was a kid, maybe I was about seven or eight and I wore that record out on my little phonograph player.. But today I was in search of a lesser known side of Sam Cooke. We all are familiar with the pop tunes or big orchestrations but, I wanted to hear the more stripped down stuff. Here is one of my favorites. Cooke’s voice took center stage on this admirably low-key session from February 1963, recorded in Los Angeles CA.
1. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
2. Lost And Lookin’
3. Mean Old World
4. Please Don’t Drive Me Away
5. I Lost Everything
6. Get Yourself Another Fool
7. Little Red Rooster
8. Laughin’ And Clownin’
9. Trouble Blues
10. You Gotta Move
11. Fool’s Paradise
12. Shake, Rattle And Roll
Lost and Lookin
Trouble Blues (featuring a young Billy Preston on organ)
Great album to feature. The first African-American artist to launch a successful record label, I think it’s interesting to note Sam Cooke signed Billy Preston to SAR Records as a teenager. “Trouble Blues” is one of my personal favorites and I use the song’s humming intro as the intro on my website.
Erik Greene
Author, “Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story From His Family’s Perspective”
http://www.OurUncleSam.com
Sam’s Neph, Thanks for the comment, and I am glad that you enjoyed reading my blog entry. Of course I cheated a bit…you can’t really go wrong with the music of Sam Cooke. Thanks for bringing up the business aspect of Mr. Cooke’s career. He was truly ahead of his time in his thinking as a business man. Not many artists Black or White had control over there careers at that time in history.