My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album) explained
My Kind of Blues |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Sam Cooke |
Cover: | My Kind of Blues Sam Cooke.jpg |
Released: | October 1961 |
Recorded: | May 19–20, 1961 |
Studio: | RCA, New York City |
Genre: | Rhythm and blues, soul |
Length: | 32:37 |
Label: | RCA Victor |
Producer: | Hugo & Luigi |
Prev Title: | Swing Low |
Prev Year: | 1961 |
Next Title: | Twistin' the Night Away |
Next Year: | 1962 |
My Kind of Blues is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Record producer by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.
The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of The RCA Albums Collection.
Track listing
All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe.
Side one
- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Bob Russell, Duke Ellington) – 3:10
- "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:55
- "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:20
- "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:25
- "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:29
- "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:05
Side two
- "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David) – 3:10
- "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 3:00
- "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) – 2:08
- "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 2:55
- "You're Always on My Mind" (James W. Alexander) – 2:12
- "The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin) – 2:07
Personnel
All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes.[1]
- Sam Cooke – vocals
- Clifton White, Everett Barksdale – guitar
- George Duvivier, Lloyd Trotman – bass guitar
- Panama Francis – drums
- Morris Wechsler, Ernest Hayes – piano
- Toots Mondello, Reuben Phillips, Seldon Powell, Melvin Tax, Jerome Richardson – saxophone
- Ray Copeland, Steve Lipkins, Lou Oles, Joseph Wilder, John Grimes – trumpet
- Larry Altpeter, Albert Godlis, Frank Saracco, Eddie Bert – trombone
- Sammy Lowe – conductor
- Bob Simpson – recording engineer
External links
Notes and References
- The RCA Albums Collection . 2011 . . liner notes . . US . 88697898702.