Sam Cooke (album)

Sam Cooke is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released on Keen Records in early 1958. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.

Track listing

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

1. <li value="7">"Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25
2. "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58
3. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05
4. "The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17
5. "So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38
6. "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16
7. "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 guitar
• Earl Palmer – drums
• Lee Gotch, The Pied Pipers – backing vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Notes