Shake (Sam Cooke album) explained

Shake
Type:	Album
Artist:	Sam Cooke
Cover:	Shake (Sam Cooke album).jpg
Released:	January 1965
Genre:	Rhythm and blues, soul
Length:	32:11
Label:	RCA Victor
Producer:	Hugo & Luigi, Al Schmitt
Prev Title:	Sam Cooke at the Copa
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Try a Little Love
Next Year:	1965

Shake is the first posthumous studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke.

Two years after its release, the melody and arrangement from "Yeah Man," one of the tracks from the album, was plagiarized by Arthur Conley and Otis Redding for their own song "Sweet Soul Music," which became a major hit for Conley. Cooke's estate eventually sued Conley and Redding and received songwriting credit and a settlement.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Sam Cooke; except where indicated

Side one

1. "Shake" – 2:42
2. "Yeah Man" – 2:32
3. "Win Your Love for Me" (L.C. Cook) – 2:20
4. "Love You Most of All" (Barbara Campbell) – 2:19
5. "Meet Me at Mary's Place" – 2:40
6. "It's Got the Whole World Shakin'" – 2:42

Side two

1. "A Change Is Gonna Come" – 2:36
2. "I'm in the Mood for Love" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 3:23
3. "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" (James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, Russ Morgan) – 2:56
4. "Comes Love" (Charles Tobias, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept) – 2:28
5. "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Brooks, Marshall Barer) – 2:40
6. "(Somebody) Ease My Troublin' Mind – 2:53

Notes

• Tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 & 12 are unreleased.
• Track 3 was released as a single in 1958.
• Track 4 was the B-side to "Blue Moon" in 1958.
• Tracks 5 & 7 are from Ain't That Good News (1964).
• Track 10 is from Tribute to the Lady (1959).

Charts

Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Top LPs^[1]	44
US Top R&B Albums	1

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of the 1960s

External links

• Songs of Sam Cooke: Main Page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sam Cooke – Awards . . . February 28, 2014.