VA - Spotlight On Sam Cooke: Movin' And Groovin' With Sam Cooke (KMCD159)

Size: 168.7 MB
Time: 72:23
File: MP3 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Front & Back

01. Soul Stirrers & Sam Cooke - Jesus Gave Me Water (2:33)
02. Soul Stirrers & Sam Cooke - Touch The Hem Of His Garment (2:06)
03. Sam Cooke - Love You Most Of All (2:19)
04. Sam Cooke - Win Your Love For Me (2:49)
05. Sam Cooke - Running Wild (1:28)
06. Sam Cooke - Long, Long Ago (2:56)
07. Sam Cooke - Happy In Love (1:56)
08. Sam Cooke - Comes Love (2:26)
09. Sam Cooke - I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues (2:35)
10. Sam Cooke - Mary, Mary Lou (2:50)
11. Sam Cooke - No One (Can Ever Take Your Place) (2:23)
12. Soul Stirrers - Wade In The Water (3:09)
13. Sam Cooke - If I Had You (2:15)
14. Sam Cooke - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (3:02)
15. Sam Cooke - Just For You (2:24)
16. Soul Stirrers - Jesus Be A Fence Around Me (2:28)
17. Soul Stirrers - He's Been A Shelter For Me (2:53)
18. The Falcons - Pow Youre In Love (2:16)
19. Sam Cooke - Having A Party (2:39)
20. Sam Cooke - Movin And Groovin (2:55)
21. Sam Cooke - The Twist (2:29)
22. Sam Cooke - Thats It, I Quit, Im Movin On (2:40)
23. Sam Cooke - A Whole Lotta Woman (2:33)
24. Simms Twins - The Smile (2:32)
25. Johnnie Taylor - Rome (Wasnt Built In A Day) (2:37)
26. Sam Cooke - Aint That Good News (2:36)
27. Sam Cooke - Little Red Rooster (2:55)
28. Sam Cooke - Shake, Rattle And Roll (3:27)

It was probably about time that Koko Mojo released an album’s worth of material to show appreciation for the musical legend that was Sam Cooke. Arriving in a three-fold digipak complete with CD and liner notes and a twenty-eight song setlist all written by, and compiled by Dee Jay Mark Armstrong, and with artwork produced by Urban Zotel, the quality is already high. The tracks themselves reach back as far as 1951 and beginning with The Soul Stirrers featuring Sam Cooke and highlights two nonsecular tracks with the second lifted from 1954. From this early part of Cooke’s career, time moves quickly in terms of this compilation and picks up once more in 1958 and showcases several of Sam Cooke’s solo performances with songs ‘Win Your Love For Me’, ‘Running Wild’, I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues’, and title of this album ‘Movin’ And Groovin’. That, of course, is but a small selection of what is on offer here as the setlist flits between examples of solo material, before dipping back into The Soul Stirrers but this time with Jimmy Outler takin up lead (‘Jesus Be A Fence Around Me’), and ditto Paul Foster (‘He’s Been A Shelter For Me’), and with Sam Cooke assuming song writing and additional song writing duties. With much of the track list stemming from late 50s and early 60s and including well-known songs ‘Little Red Rooster’, ‘Shake, Rattle And Roll’, ‘The Twist’, there is also plenty of variety with previously mentioned gospel but traditional standards as ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ and further additions featuring The Falcons, Johnnie Taylor, and The Simms Twins that once again showcases Sam Cooke’s prowess as a songwriter. A very fine overview of a supreme talent who has received much recognition for his work, but this time with a little extra something else by way of Koko Mojo’s Spotlight series and, on this occasion, ‘Movin’ and Groovin’ with Sam Cooke’.

Spotlight On Sam Cooke: Movin' And Groovin' With Sam Cooke (KMCD159)

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