Sam Cooke
The
Singing Children
(members Sam Cook, Charles Cook, Jr., Mary Cook and
Hattie Cook) family gospel group.
The Highway
QC’s (members Sam Cook,
Credell Copeland, Lee
Richards, Marvin Jones, Charles Richards and Gus
Trentwell)
1946.
The Soul Stirrers
(members Sam Cook (lead), Paul Foster (lead), Roy (S.
R.)
Crain (first tenor), Thomas L.
Bruster (baritone),
R. B. Robinson (baritone) and Jesse J. Farley (bass))
Speciality 802 – Peace In The Valley /
Jesus Gave Me Water – 1951
The Soul
Stirrers (members Sam Cook (lead), Paul
Foster (lead), Roy (S. R.) Crain (first tenor), Thomas
L. Bruster
(baritone), R. B. Robinson (baritone), Jesse J. Farley
(bass) and
Faidonest Wagoner (piano))
Speciality
813 – Come, Let’s Go Back To God / Joy, Joy To My Soul –
1951
Speciality 821 – I’m
Gonna Build Right On That
Shore* / Until Jesus Calls Me Home – 1952 *recorded at
Universal Recorders, Hollywood, California on
1-March-1951.
Speciality 835 – Just
Another Day* / Let Me Go Home – 1952 *Recorded At
Universal Recorders,
Hollywood,
California on 22-February-1952.
Speciality 845 – Jesus Paid
The Debt / Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord – 1953
Speciality 851 – He’ll
Welcome Me (To My Home) / End Of My Journey – 1953
Speciality 859 – He’s My
Friend Until The End / Come And Go To That Land – 1954
Speciality 868 – Jesus,
I’ll Never Forget / Any Day Now – 1954 (both tracks
recorded at Master Recorders, Hollywood, California on
2-March-1954)
Speciality 878 – Nearer To
Thee / Be With Me Jesus – 1955
Speciality 882 – One More
River / I’m So Glad – 1955
Speciality 892 – Wonderful /
Farther Along* – 1956 *recorded at Master Recorders,
Hollywood, California on 2-February-1956.
Speciality 896 – Touch
The Hem Of His Garment* /
Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles – 1956 *recorded at Master
Recorders,
Hollywood, California
on 2-February-1956.
Speciality 902 – In A Few
More Days / Pilgrim Of Sorrow - 1956
Dale Cooke
Speciality 596 – Forever /
Loveable – 1957 (both tracks recorded at
Cosimo’s Studio, New
Orleons on 12-December-1956.
Session: Edgar Blanchard (guitar), Frank Fields (bass),
Warren Myles (piano) and Earl Palmer (drums))
Sam Cooke
(born Samuel Cook on 22-January-1931 in Clarksdale,
Mississippi --- died 11-December-1964
at the Hacienda Motel at 9137 South Figueroa in Los
Angeles
--- cause: Shot dead under mysterious circumstances by
Bertha Franklin the motel manager)
Speciality – You Send Me –
Demo – 1957 (unissued at the
time this track was released in 1994 in
the U. S. A. on a Abcko
2Cd set “Sam Cooke’s Sar
Records Story 1959 – 1965” 2231-2 (Disc 2))
Keen 3-4013 - You Send Me / Summertime - 1957 (Black
Label --- Original)
Speciality 619 - I'll Come
Running Back To You* / Forever - 1957 *also recorded in
1974 by Larry
Henley on Capricorn 0046.
Speciality 627 - That's All
I Need To Know / I Don't Want To Cry – 1958 (both tracks
recorded at Cosimo’s Studio,
New Orleons on
12-December-1956)
Keen 3-2005 -
Stealing Kisses / All Of My Life - 1958
Keen 3-2006 - Win Your Love For Me / Almost In Your Arms
- 1958 (Mono)
Keen 3-2006 - Win Your Love For Me / Love Song From
Houseboat - 1959 (Mono)
Keen 5-2006 - Win Your Love For Me / Love Song From
Houseboat - 1959 (stereo issued in blue vinyl ---
scarce)
Keen 3-2008 - Love You Most Of All / Blue Moon – 1958
Keen 3-4002 - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons* /
Desire Me - 1958 (Black Label) *also recorded in 1965 by
The Sisters on DEL-FI 4306.
Keen 4009 - You Were Made For Me* /
Lonely Island
- 1958 *recorded 23-August-1957. The song was also
recorded in 1972 by Luther Ingram on
Ko Ko
2110.
Keen 3-4013 - You Send Me /
Summertime - 195? (Multi
Coloured Label)
Keen 3-2018 - Everybody Likes To Cha
Cha Cha*
/ Little Things You Do - 1959 (mono) *session: The
Blossoms (members Fanita
James, Gloria Jones and Darlene Wright (Love))
Keen 5-2018 - Everybody Likes To Cha
Cha Cha
/ Little Things You Do - 1959 (stereo release scarce)
Keen 2022 - Only Sixteen / Let's Go Steady Again - 1959
(Mono)
Keen 5-2022 - Only Sixteen / Let's Go Steady Again -
1959 (Stereo Release Scarce)
Speciality 667 - Happy In
Love / I Need You Now - 1959
Keen 2101 - Summertime (Part 1)
/ Summertime (Part 2) – 1959
Keen – Summertime (Alternate Version) – (this alternate
version was released in Canada on a 1988 RCA
Cd “The Best Of Sam Cooke”
3863-2-R)
Keen 8-2105 - There! I've Said It Again / One Hour Ahead
Of The Posse - 1959
Keen 2118 - Steal Away / So Glamorous - 1960
Keen 2122 - Mary, Mary Lou /
Eee-Yi-Ee-Yi-Oh - 1960
Keen 82111 - T'ain't
Nobody's Bizness (If I Do) /
No One - 1960
Keen 82112 - Wonderful World / Along The Navajo Trail –
1960
Keen 82117 - With You / I Thank God - 1960
Keen 8-1001 - You Send Me / Love You Most Of All - 1960
(Reissue)
RCA Victor
47-7701 - Teenage Sonata / If You Were The Only Girl -
1960
RCA Victor 47-7730 - You Understand Me / I Belong To
Your Heart - 1960 (some copies issued with picture
sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-7783 - Chain Gang* / I Fall In Love Every
Day - 1960 (some copies issued with picture sleeve)
*session: on guitar Johnny
Fortune (died 8-January- 2006 at his home in Rialto
California --- cause: ?)
RCA Victor 47-7816 - Sad Mood / Love Me – 1960
Sar
122 - Just For You / Made For Me - 1961 (promo issue
only has "Audition" on label --- said to be made as
leverage during contract talks with RCA Victor) *track
recorded 24-July-1959. )
RCA Victor 47-7853 - That's It-I-Quit-I'm
Movin' On / What Do You Say
- 1961
RCA Victor 37-7853 - That's It-I-Quit-I'm
Movin' On / What Do You Say
- 1961 ("Compact Single 33" small hole plays at
Lp speed)
RCA Victor 47-7883 - Cupid / Farewell, My Darling - 1961
(some copies issued with picture sleeve)
Sar – Somewhere There’s A
Girl – 1961 (recorded 28-June-1961. This secular version
of “Somewhere There’s A God” with The Womack Brothers on
background vocals was finished in one take, the track
remained unissued until it
was released in 1994 in U. S. A. on a
Abcko 2
Cd set “Sam Cooke’s SAR Records Story 1959 –
1965” 2231-2 (Disc 2)
RCA Victor 47-7927 - Feel It / It's Alright - 1961 (some
copies issued with picture sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-7983 - Twistin'
The Night Away / One More Time – 1962
RCA Victor 47-8036 - Bring It On Home To Me* / Having A
Party - 1962 *backing vocal by
Lou Rawls
---
also recorded in 1964 by The Tides on 620
1007 and in 1968 by
Eddie Floyd
on
Stax
012 plus in 19?? by Big Fred
And The Ovations on Lemco
720.
RCA Victor 47-8088 - Nothing Can Change This Love /
Somebody Have Mercy - 1962 (some copies issued with
picture sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-8129 - Send Me Some
Lovin' / Baby, Baby, Baby - 1963 (some copies
issued with picture sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-8164 - Another Saturday Night* / Love Will
Find A Way - 1963 (some copies issued with picture
sleeve) *Also recorded in 1969 by Mel Carter on Bell
775.
RCA Victor 47-8215 - Frankie And Johnny / Cool Train -
1963 (some copies issued with picture sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-8247 - Little Red Rooster / You
Gotta Move - 1963 (some
copies issued with picture sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-8299 - Ain't
That Good News / Basin Street Blues - 1963 (Scarce)
RCA Victor 47-8299 - Good News / Basin Street Blues -
1963
RCA Victor 47-8368 - Good Times / Tennessee Waltz – 1964
RCA Victor 47-8426 - Cousin Of Mine / That's Where It's
At – 1964
The Soul Stirrers (members Paul Foster, Roy
(S. R.) Crain, Jesse J. Farley,
.....)
Sar
– Lead Me To Calvary -
Rehearsal – 1964 (recorded 20-July-1964 ---
Unissued at the time this
track has Sam Cooke singing with the group. The track
was released in 1994 in the U. S. A.
on a ABCKO 2Cd set “Sam Cooke’s SAR Records Story 1959 –
1965” 2231-2 (Disc 1))
Sam Cooke
RCA Victor 47-8486 - Shake / A Change Is
Gonna Come - 1964
RCA Victor 47-8539 - It's Got The Whole World
Shakin' / (Somebody) Ease My
Troublin' Mind - 1965
RCA Victor 47-8586 - When A Boy Falls In Love / The
Piper - 1965
RCA Victor 47-8631 - Sugar Dumpling / Bridge Of Tears -
1965 (Some Copies Issued With Picture Sleeve)
RCA Victor 47-8751 - Feel It / That's All - 1965
RCA Victor 47-8803 - Let's Go Steady Again / Trouble
Blues - 1966
RCA Victor 47-8934 - Meet Me At Mary's Place / If I Had
A Hammer - 1966
RCA Victor Vp-3-2555 - The Twist /
Movin' And Groovin' -
196? (small hole plays at
Lp speed)
RCA Victor Vp-4-2555 - Somebody Have Mercy /
Camptown Girl - 196? (small
hole plays at Lp speed)
Sam Cooke with The Soul
Stirrers (members Sam Cooke (lead), Paul
Foster (lead), Roy (S. R.) Crain (first tenor),
Leroy Crume (baritone), R.
B. Robinson (baritone), Jesse J. Farley (bass),
Bob King or Leroy
Crume (guitar) and Abe Mills (drums))
Speciality 921 - Must Jesus
Bear The Cross Alone / The Last Mile Of The Way* - 1970
*recorded at Master Recorders, Hollywood, California on
17-August-1955.
Sam
Cooke
Cherie 4501 - Darling I Need You Now / Win Your Love For
Me - 1971
Trip 122 - You Send Me / Wonderful World - 197?
Sam Cooke /
Tommy Tucker
Trip 123 - Only Sixteen / Hi Heel Sneakers* - ? *flip by
Tommy Tucker
Sam Cooke with The Soul Stirrers
(members Sam Cooke,
......................)
Speciality
928 - Just Another Day / Christ Is All - 1973
Speciality 930 - That's
Heaven To Me / Lord, Remember Me - 1974
Sam Cooke
RCA PB-14146 - Bring It On Home To Me / Nothing Can
Change This Love - 1985