SAM COOKE / ENCORE LP 33T (12') KEEN A 2003 RARE USA

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Jun 14, 2009 Sold Date

Jun 4, 2009 Start Date

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SLEEVE & VINYL : NEAR MINT CONDITION

8715 WEST THIRD STREET, LOS ANGELES 48, CALIFORNIA

Printed in U.S.A

KEEN RECORDS

Track listing: Oh Look At Me Now/Someday/Along The Navaho Trail/Running Wild/Accentuate The Positive/Mary Mary Lou//When I Fall In Love/I Cover The Waterfront/My Foolish Heart/Today I Sing The Blues/The Gypsy/It's The Talk Of The Town

MULTICOLORED KEEN LABEL WITH VERTICAL STRIPES

Call this a labor of love, if you will: advertising the music and the vibrant, joyful voice of my all- time favorite singer - and spreading the Sam Cooke gospel in the process !!! That's heaven to me, indeed. Sam Cooke was the greatest American singer of all times, hands down; no ifs, ands or buts. Respectfully, the fans of Enrico Caruso, Frankie Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat "King" Cole or Billy Ecstine can take their case elsewhere - my judgment is final (and also shared by such an authority as Jerry Wexler, legendary Atlantic A&R man, who - to paraphrase his words - proclaimed that Sam Cooke was a "perfect" singer, who "had it all"). In an unlikely event that you are totally unfamiliar with Sam's music, this is his second studio album . Sam croons his way through 12 crossover and pop standards. Make no mistake: material here may be pop, but the voice is pure Rhythm & Blues!!! Sam Cooke could sing a mattress label and still come across as the best soul singer of them all. Plus, the selection of material has one unintended consequence: all these great, crafty pop songs of the fifties will send you on a nostalgia trip in no time at all. This is an embarrassment of the riches of the American vocal artistry; Crooning raised to the level of aesthetic and philosophical principle. Absolutely indispensible!!! Miss it an weep.

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