Songs by Sam Cooke

Songs by Sam Cooke
File:Sam Cooke (1957 album).jpg
Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released	February 1958
Recorded	30:16
Genre	Traditional pop
Label	Keen
Producer	Bumps Blackwell
Sam Cooke chronology
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Sam Cooke, better known as Songs by Sam Cooke (as shown on the back cover), is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke, originally credited to L.C. Cook) – 2:41
2. "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 2:31
3. "Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:30
4. "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:39
5. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:40
6. "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 2:57

Side 2

7. "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25
8. "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58
9. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05
10. "The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17
11. "So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38
12. "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16
13. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) – 2:19

Personnel

On "You Send Me" and "Summertime"

• Clifton White, René Hall - guitar
• Ted Brinson - bass
• Earl Palmer - drums
• Lee Gotch, The Pied Pipers - backing vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1958)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs	16

External links

• Songs of Sam Cooke: Main Page