Specialty Profiles
Released: Aug 29, 2006
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Released: Aug 29, 2006
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When Art Rupe of Specialty Records first heard the master tape of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" in 1957, he declared that the track sounded "too white" for his label's R&B and gospel audience, and he...
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One Night Stand: Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Not only is this one of the greatest live soul albums ever released, it also reveals a rougher, rawer, and more immediate side to Sam Cooke that his singles only hinted at, good as they were....
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Best of Sam Cooke - RCA BONUS TRACKS
Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Released: Sep 20, 2005
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RCA/Legacy's 2005 reissue of the 1962 LP The Best of Sam Cooke retains the original 12-song running order and adds three bonus tracks, none of them huge hits: "Win Your Love for Me," "You Were Made...
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Legend
Released: Jun 17, 2003
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Released: Jun 17, 2003
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Back in the late 1970s when The Buddy Holly Story came out, a lot of sharp-eyed viewers remarked that the actor who played Sam Cooke in that movie would have been perfect to star in "The Sam Cooke...
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Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
Released: Jun 17, 2003
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Released: Jun 17, 2003
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Some 46 years after his first pop hit, and 39 years after his death, comes only the second attempt at a comprehensive Sam Cooke collection. Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 eclipses RCA's early-'80s...
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The Complete Specialty Recordings of Sam Cooke
Released: Oct 15, 2002
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Released: Oct 15, 2002
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They were known as the Soul Stirrers when they did the 1951-1957 recordings on this three-CD, 84-song collection. It's billed to Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, though, as it's the ultimate...
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Keep Movin' On
Released: Jan 15, 2002
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Released: Jan 15, 2002
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This 23-song CD stands in Sam Cooke's output roughly where those four posthumous LPs (beginning with Dock Of The Bay) stand in Otis Reddings catalog, with the major difference that Cooke's work...
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Hits!
Released: Apr 3, 2001
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Released: Apr 3, 2001
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The problem with issuing compilations of Sam Cooke material is one of licensing, since his early gospel work with the Soul Stirrers is owned chiefly by Specialty Records; his first secular pop hits...
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16 Most Requested Songs
Released: Nov 28, 2000
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Released: Nov 28, 2000
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Velvety smooth, cool Sam Cooke left behind a legacy of recordings with his most renown located here on the tightest 16-track collection you'd find. The CD is a sing-along from the first selection,...
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