Sam Cooke (album)

Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released	January or February 1958
Recorded	30:16
Genre	Rhythm and blues, traditional pop, swing
Label	Keen
Producer	Bumps Blackwell
Sam Cooke chronology
Singles from Sam Cooke
	"You Send Me"; Released: September 7, 1957;

Sam Cooke is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released on Keen Records in early 1958.^[1]^[2]^[3] The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.

Track listing

Side 1

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

Side 2

"Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25
"Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58
"Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05
"The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17
"So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38
"Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16
"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

Chart (1958)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs^[4]	16

Notes

^ ^a ^b Editorial Staff, Billboard (January 13, 1958). "Sam Cooke". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Edwards, David; Callahan, Mike. "Keen/Andex/Famous Labels Album Discography". bsnpubs.com. Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
^ Popoff, Martin (2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide (6th ed.). London: Penguin Group. ISBN 9781440229169.
^ "Sam Cooke – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved February 28, 2014.